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Posted: 17 Jun 2009 06:14 PM PDT

As seen on RedCowz, Made by Sam.

I think we all remember the old Tootsie Pop commercial. A boy would always come up to the owl with a single question.

"Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?"

If I was in this situation, I would be asking why on earth this boy is in his nude, and why an owl is talking. Of course, some questions are best left unanswered. Back on track, the question of how many licks is the last question that comes to mind when licking a Tootsie Pop. The question itself is just a ploy to get consumers to buy these suckers, because the owl never actually says that desired number. I was searching the internet, and found two people who actually tested this. They go by the names of Dr. Shin and Miah.

They went out and bought three Tootsie Pops, cherry. They opened the wrappers of the suckers slowly, as not to damage the variables and rupture the results. Dr. Shin went at the first sucker quickly, and counted his licks aloud. One, two, three… and so on until he reached the "Tootsie Roll center of The Tootsie Pop" at that magical number, 457 licks. Miah then proceeded to the second Tootsie Pop, trial number two. He took it quite slowly and hit the center at lick 411. Perhaps the slower you lick, the faster? The last trial was also carried out by Miah, and he ended with an astounding 314 licks. They ended with an average of 413 licks, an average time of 8 minutes-48 seconds, and about 2 hours of their lives wasted. It takes a very bored person to carry out such a test.