Thinking: A Science Project For Your Kids
November 20, 2006
If I store my half-sucked Tootsie Roll Pop in my glass of ice water, will the water preserve the Tootsie Roll Pop? Or will the water become flavored like my Tootsie Roll Pop? And if the water becomes flavored, will it taste as good as this red, artificially flavored candied shell?


Comments
Please tell me you didn't do this. I refuse to press breasts with someone who would store a tootsie pop. Tootsie pops must breathe!!!
Posted by: Lena | November 20, 2006 10:40 PM
I will buy some Tootsie Pops on the morrow, fair maiden, and I will do the experiment with my kids.
Just as long as you realize that by "do the experiment" I mean eat all the tootsie pops. And by "with my kids" I mean without the greedy little hogs.
PS)I think it will freeze the tootsie pop and render it flavourless. I must know!
Posted by: Marmite Breath | November 20, 2006 11:34 PM
Hmmm, I'm thinking since the shell is sugar based it will dissolve over time. YOur saliva has already started the breakdown of the shell. So the water will disolve it. If you want to preserve it, then place it in a glass of Karo syrup or freeze it. Just proves that my scientific explanation is BORING!!!
~Jef
Posted by: Edge | November 21, 2006 07:46 AM
Freeze it! Or give it to me! I'm not scared of saliva.
I shouldn't admit that on the internet, should I?
Posted by: Meg | November 21, 2006 08:11 AM
How can you stop licking before you get to the tootsie roll center?
Posted by: Ang | November 21, 2006 08:48 AM
Note: It's easy to stop licking when you start biting. It's so satisfying and CRUNCHY.
Posted by: jes | November 21, 2006 10:06 AM
now THIS is a scientific study result i want to hear.
did you do it?
the thought of you drinking the water somehow makes me feel icky.
Posted by: Sarcomical | November 21, 2006 12:45 PM
No.
Yes.
No.
But whatever it is I think I see, becomes a tootsie roll to me.
Posted by: eddo | November 21, 2006 01:07 PM
I would think the Tootsie Pop would disappear because the water would make the candy vanish, much like suckers vanish in your mouth. Besides, the water probably wants to get to the center of the Tootsie Pop, too!
Posted by: my life is brilliant | November 29, 2006 09:15 PM