Dum Dum Pop
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Dum Dum Pop or Dum Dums is a sphere-shaped lollipop named by I.C. Bahr, a Sales Manager at the Akron Candy Company in Bellevue, Ohio, in 1924. In 1953 the Dum Dum Pop was purchased by the Spangler Candy Company and moved manufacturing to Bryan, Ohio.
Dum Dums are made from sugar and corn syrup that is cooked before coloring and flavoring are added. After pressing, the paper stick is then added.
Dum Dums are made in about twelve different flavors; nine or ten of these flavors are classic flavors; two or three are cycled in and out. The infamous "Mystery Flavor," ominously present in every bag of Dum Dums, is a combination of two flavors in the bag. The combined flavors are random. This combination occurs because the production of Dum Dums is continuous--there is no stop between flavors. This practice results in the flavor combination.
[edit] Flavor history
- Lemon (original flavor, 1953-2001)
- Lime (original flavor, 1953-1991)
- Orange (original flavor, 1953-2001)
- Coconut-Pineapple (original flavor, 1953-1970, 2005- )
- Cherry (original flavor, 1953- )
- Grape (original flavor, 1953- )
- Butterscotch (original flavor, 1953-2005)
- Root Beer (1953-1961, 1968- )
- Strawberry (1954- )
- Chocolate (1955-1960, 1966-1975, 2002- )
- Banana (1960-1966, 2005- )
- Raspberry (1961-1968, 1975-1982)
- Black Cherry (1968-1970)
- Cream Soda (1968- )
- Pineapple (1970-2001)
- Watermelon (1982- )
- Peach (1987-2002)
- Sour Apple (1991-2001, 2001- )
- Blue Raspberry (1995- )
- Orange Cream (2001-2002)
- Fruit Punch (2001-2002)
- Buttered Popcorn (2001)
- Bubble Gum (2002- )
- Cotton Candy (2002- )
- Cherry Cola (2005- )
- Pink Lemonade (2005- )
