How many licks does it really take to get to the center of a Tootsie pop? =]?!
PLEASE TELL ME!.!.its driving me up the wall after watching the tootsie pop commercial!.and i cant eat lollipops because i have braces!.!.fjdkalfjdka;
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Answers:
Boy: Mr!. Cow!.!.!.
Mr!. Cow (voiced by Frank Nelson): Yeeeeesss!?
Boy: How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop!?
Mr!. Cow: I don't know, I always end up biting!. Ask Mr!. Fox, for he's much clever than I!.
Boy: Mr!. Fox, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop!?
Mr!. Fox (Paul Frees): Why don't you ask Mr!. Turtle, for he's been around a lot longer than I!? Me, heheh, I bite!.
Boy: Mr!. Turtle, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop!?
Mr!. Turtle (Ralph James): I've never even made it without biting!. Ask Mr!. Owl, for he is the wisest of us all!.
Boy: Mr!. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop!?
Mr!. Owl (Paul Winchell): A good question!. Let's find out!. A One!.!.!. A!.two-HOO!.!.!.A three!.!.
(crunch sound effect)
Mr!. Owl: Three!
Boy: If there's anything I can't stand, it's a smart owl!.
Narrator (Herschel Bernardi): How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop!?
(crunch sound effect)
Narrator: The world may never know!.
According to the official Tootsie Roll website, over 50,000 children have written in since the launching of the commercial in 1970, claiming they know how many licks it takes!. Their responses have ranged from 100 to 5,800!.
Three independent research studies have been carried out to determine the answer!. Engineering students at Purdue University devised a "licking machine" that showed an average of 364 licks are needed to get to the center!. Using 20 human volunteers, the figure was 252!. A doctoral student at the University of Michigan created another licking machine and came up with an average of 411 licks!.
So!.!.!.There are several factors, needless to say, even if it's the same person counting, the # of licks will differ at each attempt!.
If you wanted to look at it semi-scientifically, the number of licks needed depend on these factors:
* Pressure per square inch the tongue is applied to the surface of the tootsie pop (TP)
* The average amount of square inch in contact between tongue and TP
* At what measurement from the center of the stick of the TP at which you declare that you have reached the center of the TP!.
* The rotation factor of the TP - if the eater continues to lick one specific portion only to reach the center faster - or if licks are distributed evenly around the outer surface area of TP!.
And to a lesser extent:
* Ambient temperature
* Use of teeth / or lack of teeth of eater
* Hunger of TP eater
* Boredom of TP eater
* Age of TPWww@FoodAQ@Com
Mr!. Cow (voiced by Frank Nelson): Yeeeeesss!?
Boy: How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop!?
Mr!. Cow: I don't know, I always end up biting!. Ask Mr!. Fox, for he's much clever than I!.
Boy: Mr!. Fox, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop!?
Mr!. Fox (Paul Frees): Why don't you ask Mr!. Turtle, for he's been around a lot longer than I!? Me, heheh, I bite!.
Boy: Mr!. Turtle, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop!?
Mr!. Turtle (Ralph James): I've never even made it without biting!. Ask Mr!. Owl, for he is the wisest of us all!.
Boy: Mr!. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop!?
Mr!. Owl (Paul Winchell): A good question!. Let's find out!. A One!.!.!. A!.two-HOO!.!.!.A three!.!.
(crunch sound effect)
Mr!. Owl: Three!
Boy: If there's anything I can't stand, it's a smart owl!.
Narrator (Herschel Bernardi): How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop!?
(crunch sound effect)
Narrator: The world may never know!.
According to the official Tootsie Roll website, over 50,000 children have written in since the launching of the commercial in 1970, claiming they know how many licks it takes!. Their responses have ranged from 100 to 5,800!.
Three independent research studies have been carried out to determine the answer!. Engineering students at Purdue University devised a "licking machine" that showed an average of 364 licks are needed to get to the center!. Using 20 human volunteers, the figure was 252!. A doctoral student at the University of Michigan created another licking machine and came up with an average of 411 licks!.
So!.!.!.There are several factors, needless to say, even if it's the same person counting, the # of licks will differ at each attempt!.
If you wanted to look at it semi-scientifically, the number of licks needed depend on these factors:
* Pressure per square inch the tongue is applied to the surface of the tootsie pop (TP)
* The average amount of square inch in contact between tongue and TP
* At what measurement from the center of the stick of the TP at which you declare that you have reached the center of the TP!.
* The rotation factor of the TP - if the eater continues to lick one specific portion only to reach the center faster - or if licks are distributed evenly around the outer surface area of TP!.
And to a lesser extent:
* Ambient temperature
* Use of teeth / or lack of teeth of eater
* Hunger of TP eater
* Boredom of TP eater
* Age of TPWww@FoodAQ@Com
9 results from all of your answerers so far:106,234,198,252,411,230,127,211,212!. From least to greathest: 106,127,198,211,212,230,234,252,411!. All added together and then divided by nine will give you the average licks it takes for te average tongue: 220(rounded the decimal) That means the average result SHOULD be around there!.(Around 220-305) Your chances of getting anything less than 220 are about 56%!.Chances for getting anything above 305 are about 12%!. Ironically enough your chances of getting the average are only 22%!. Since you can't lick a lolipop let's just be safe and say your MOST LIKELY do get something below 220 licks!. I hope that helped!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
omg,
we did this in math class one day as a "fun thing" me and my firends got different answers
examples:
me-230
brianna-127
jenni-424!.!.!.!.
brody-1!.!.!.!.idk how he managed to eat the whole thing with only 1!.
well yahh!.hope this helpsWww@FoodAQ@Com
we did this in math class one day as a "fun thing" me and my firends got different answers
examples:
me-230
brianna-127
jenni-424!.!.!.!.
brody-1!.!.!.!.idk how he managed to eat the whole thing with only 1!.
well yahh!.hope this helpsWww@FoodAQ@Com
Well everyone has a different answer for this so one day me and a friend were bored and tryed to figure out the age old question i came up with 234 and she had 198 so who knows the acctual number maybe it just depends on your toungue!.(:Www@FoodAQ@Com
212 !.!.!. The president of the Tootsie Pop company was on Food Network, and said they had a "licking machine" that counted them!.!.!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
It takes 211 licks to get to the center, Perdue University did it and it was on Food Network!!!Www@FoodAQ@Com
it took ME106Www@FoodAQ@Com
About as many times as I've seen this question posted on YA!!.Www@FoodAQ@Com