OK, as far as philosophical questions go, it’s not up there with “What is the meaning of Life?” or “What is beauty?” or “Why Wal-Mart?” but it’s what I got. I guess I could hop over to the Tootsie Roll website (everything has a website anymore) and see what they have to say about it. But why should I believe them? Just because they make Tootsie rolls, they know what it is? I don’t think so.
A Tootsie Rolls is sort of taffy-ish. Only not. I mean I’ve had some chocolate taffy and it wasn’t a Tootsie Roll.
A Tootsie Roll is also sort of caramel-ish. Only, again, not. I mean it’s chocolate flavored! And caramel is… caramel flavored. To say a Tootsie Roll is just a hunk of chocolate flavored caramel is insane! You might as well try to make a… make a… a strawberry flavored watermelon! Just crazy talk.
So maybe a Tootsie Roll is it’s own thing. Like the platypus.
Only the platypus also has the echidna joining it in its montreme-y goodness. So that analogy falls flat.
Except the Tootsie Roll also has the Black Cow or Slowpoke to join it in it’s own goodness. Although these two aren’t exactly like a Tootsie Roll. They are flatter and have a stick and will more likely pull your teeth out if you try to bite them. I don’t think a echidna will pull your teeth out if you bite it. Not that I’m going to experiment that way. You want to bite a spiny anteater (the other name for the echidna), go right ahead. Then let me know how your teeth are doing.
So I think I’ve figured it out. What is a Tootsie Roll? It’s a platypus.
-Rue.
Is a Black Cow or Slowpoke just like a Sugar Daddy? A sticky caramel thing on a stick. If so … standing, hand over heart … yes, I did in fact yank out a tooth with one when I was in the seventh grade.
That said, I can’t believe I made it into this thread before Swampy. Or maybe he’s in Kentucky already. I forgot to go back and look in the other thread to see where he’s a-goin’!!
You should go look at the Tootsie Rolls website. Loads of interesting things there about the history. And since they never say exactly what it is, I’ll support you platypus analogy. Good call.
No! A Sugar Daddy is mostly a caramel candy. The Black Cow and Slowpoke are more chocolaty. Very much the difference. But size, shape and consistancy are tha same. You can’t tell them apart in the dark by feel.
I had this same discussion with my husband last Halloween (Tootsie Roll season).
The only thing we agreed on is that the large segmented Tootsie Rolls taste much better than the smooth compact ones.
Lissla are you around? How is your neck? I must tell you that I have been battling a crick in the neck for going on Week 3. At first I thought I slept funny or sumpin’ but I later came to the conclusion that it was a symptom of this nasty virus! About Day 4 of the Crick in the Neck, it got hideously worse, so bad that I absolutely could not turn my head left or right and the pressure of accelerating the car actually caused me pain. Accompanied by cold symptoms. Husband had the same thing, only his aches were spread out over his whole body, and less intense. The cold symptoms have gone away but my neck is still sore! Curses.
So Mr Swampbear Dear when are you coming to Kentucky, and where are you going. Kentucky Dopers want to know!! (You can email me if you’re feeling shy!)
I like Tootsie Roll Pops. And caramel apples. I can’t wait for early October when the Apple Barn is open in my hometown in Indiana so I can get their wonderful caramel apples. There are tons of apple orchards around here but they don’t get the caramel quite right. It’s not thick and creamy enough, or they don’t use peanuts, or they use the wrong kind of apples or something. So I have to wait until October to get my fix and I have to drive all the way over there. But as long as I’m there I will pick up some pumpkin butter, some peach nectar and some local white popcorn. Mmmm. They also have local honeys that are good. They also sell the caramel in little bars and I get them for my father-in-law, because I like him. I don’t know how he eats the caramel with his dentures, but somehow he manages. I like the caramel they have better than I like their fudge. The fudge is kind of grainy (I like smooth fudge) and I don’t think they make it at the Apple Barn. I think they buy it from other people. Oh, and they always have the best apples! How can I forget the apples! My husband buys a huge bin of golden delicious and I always buy the tartest apples they have for apple pie. Always buy tart and juicy apples for baking because the others just crumble and don’t have a strong enough taste. While I’m at the Apple Barn I also usually buy some persimmon pulp for my mom. We used to go walking out in the woods to find persimmons and she would make the persimmon fresh, but we don’t do that anymore. She thinks it’s a hassle, although I’m rather sad about it really. So I buy the little plastic tubs of persimmon pulp and she makes her persimmon pudding, which is really good warm with whipped cream. She says her Fillipino coworkers think it’s the grossest thing when she takes it in for work, and that means a lot coming from them. Which is good cause there’s more for me. I have to buy sweet pie pumpkins this year because I want to make pie from scratch. I hope the Apple Barn has them, although I didn’t see them last year. Damn. Maybe I’ll have to go to the orchards around here and buy them. I hope they have them here, although I guess I can make the canned stuff, but that’s not the same. Tastes good, but not the same.
I’ve never heard of those, but now I want one!
I followed your link, though, and wandered around a bit in the online store. I can’t decide which was more disturbing, the tootise roll diaper-changing pad, or the tootsie pop boys’ briefs.
Some kind of sickos over there
I have to agree with the thought that segmented Tootsie Rolls taste better than the the little ones. Maybe because there’s more of the flavor to sort of roll around in your mouth. I dunno.
I pulled my spacer/retainer out eating a Black Cow or a Sugar Daddy when I was a kid. The problem was retainer (basically a wire holding a spacer on each side of my mouth for teeth), was pulled up and bent, while the spacers remained in my mouth. I did this on a Saturday afternoon. My mother was beyond pissed. My dentist was beyond pissed. I was in a lot of trouble.
Do you remember big giant “gift” Sugar Daddy’s? Those things were all the rage when I was in junior high and they were what you gave your school buddies as a Christmas gift.
I used to eat Tootsie Rolls all day and all of the night. Now I have a crown on my back molar, and I’m afraid to put sticky stuff in my mouth. I have actually tried to alter the molecular structure of the tootsie roll by microwaving it on med. for about 3 seconds. Soft and yummy, but still a bit chewy! And fat free, right?
I’m eating Halloween Peeps now. I know, sticky, but on a sticky scale of 1-10, the tootsie roll is 8-8.5 and Peeps are 4. Also fat free!
Grace Adler/ “Isn’t it great that sugar has no fat?”/Grace Adler
Have you tried microwaving M&M’s? The shells crack a little bit, but they’re all melty inside. Just the thing on a cold day. I wish they’d make more of the dark chocolate M&M’s. They’d be so good melted.
I can’t wait for this either. Apple picking and fresh out-of-the-fryer cider donuts. And I pick up my years supply of real jelly. (Because the husband weedwhacked the raspberry patch – “I didn’t know!”-- , and now I have to buy real jelly.)
The other boy’s briefs are a little disturbing, too. “Fresh?” “Who’s Your Daddy?” Not like the Underoos we had when I was a kid.
I have actually tried to alter the molecular structure of the tootsie roll by microwaving it on med. for about 3 seconds. Soft and yummy, but still a bit chewy! And fat free, right?