Help me find this candy from my childhood?
January 9, 2011 6:07 AM Subscribe
Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1990s, I enjoyed a lollipop primarily sold in Jewish groceries/delis. Can you tell me what it's called so that I may procure more?
Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1990s, I enjoyed a lollipop primarily sold in Jewish groceries/delis. It was not a hard candy lollipop--rather, it had a sort of grainy, sugar-like texture. It was almost as if the sugar from Pixy Stix had been firmly packed into a lollipop shape. The lollipop had a round, spherical head, usually one color on the northern hemisphere, and a different, complementary color on the southern hemisphere. You'd almost scrape the sugar with your teeth as you went along, to enjoy the lollipop.
Obviously, these descriptors do not good Google-fu make. Does anyone recall the lollipop I'm describing, and if so, what's it called and where can I buy it? I live in suburban Atlanta now.
Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1990s, I enjoyed a lollipop primarily sold in Jewish groceries/delis. It was not a hard candy lollipop--rather, it had a sort of grainy, sugar-like texture. It was almost as if the sugar from Pixy Stix had been firmly packed into a lollipop shape. The lollipop had a round, spherical head, usually one color on the northern hemisphere, and a different, complementary color on the southern hemisphere. You'd almost scrape the sugar with your teeth as you went along, to enjoy the lollipop.
Obviously, these descriptors do not good Google-fu make. Does anyone recall the lollipop I'm describing, and if so, what's it called and where can I buy it? I live in suburban Atlanta now.
Best answer: Smarties lollipops? Those were soo good!
posted by KateHasQuestions at 6:21 AM on January 9, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by KateHasQuestions at 6:21 AM on January 9, 2011 [2 favorites]
Did they look like this? Or like this but vertical?
posted by theredpen at 6:24 AM on January 9, 2011
posted by theredpen at 6:24 AM on January 9, 2011
On iPhone so can't duck but is it http://www.swizzels-matlow.com/ double lollipop?
posted by moochoo at 6:24 AM on January 9, 2011
posted by moochoo at 6:24 AM on January 9, 2011
Oops, their site is weird. Under Candy by Type, choose Lollipop, then go to Lollies Mega Double -- like those?
posted by theredpen at 6:26 AM on January 9, 2011
posted by theredpen at 6:26 AM on January 9, 2011
Best answer: They're called Double Lollies over here. You can buy them online from lots of UK retailers (some ship to US) but the shipping is extremely expensive. Maybe if you google Double Lollies from the US you will
posted by missmagenta at 6:31 AM on January 9, 2011
posted by missmagenta at 6:31 AM on January 9, 2011
Best answer: This is the link for theredpen's site. Only 2 flavour choices though.
posted by missmagenta at 6:36 AM on January 9, 2011
posted by missmagenta at 6:36 AM on January 9, 2011
Best answer: If you're talking about kosher shops, it's probably Paskesz fizz pops
posted by Mchelly at 7:58 AM on January 9, 2011
posted by Mchelly at 7:58 AM on January 9, 2011
If none of those are what you want then a useful search term could be "compressed dextrose".
posted by elsietheeel at 8:10 AM on January 9, 2011
posted by elsietheeel at 8:10 AM on January 9, 2011
Response by poster: Thank you, all! All these links point to very familiar-looking lollies. Mchelly, your link is most likely to be what I remember, since I only ever got them from kosher shops. But I'm sure any of these would be about right. Funny that I remembered them being rounder. Thank you!
posted by litnerd at 8:24 AM on January 9, 2011
posted by litnerd at 8:24 AM on January 9, 2011
I remember those from mom-and-pop stores in eastern NC when I was growing up, and they looked like what everyone else is linking to, but were called sherbet lollipops. Maybe that will give you an additional search term.
posted by rhiannonstone at 11:54 AM on January 9, 2011
posted by rhiannonstone at 11:54 AM on January 9, 2011
BTW, I also remembered them being rounder, but maybe I'm thinking of the non-lollipop version that you can get in quarter candy machines, which are basically the same thing but round rather than flattish, with no lollipop stick.
posted by rhiannonstone at 11:56 AM on January 9, 2011
posted by rhiannonstone at 11:56 AM on January 9, 2011
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