How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie pop?

The real question is, except to get an answer to this question, has anyone ever scraped their tongue raw in order to eat a Tootsie Pop this way? I say no.

I thought that the owl/tootsie pop commercial hadn’t been aired in many years, until I watched (well, had on in the background) Willy Wonka on a DirecTV channel today and a shortened version was shown multiple times. (It had only the owl part, not the earlier part with the turtle and whatever else.)

Late 70’s when I determined it to be 324,
but that was a sample consisting of 1 test, and am not sure if the criteria means in one place, until a amount is visible are random licking until it appears. The random licking was my method.

Am I the only one who’s thinking of chrome trailer hitches?