# Lollipop or Sucker? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 13, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132 "2012-07-13T19:05:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/21 "2012-07-14T02:08:07Z")
Lollipop. Raised in eastern Long Island. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/22 "2012-07-14T02:09:25Z")
Lollipop (because of the song) ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/23 "2012-07-14T03:05:33Z")
30s, grew up in Kentucky. It’s a sucker. Lollipops are indeed disc shaped only, as **Rhiannon8404** said, however they’re still suckers. All lollipops are suckers. Not all suckers are lollipops. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/24 "2012-07-14T06:09:38Z")
60s, Ohio. Sucker. ---
**Author:** ![Rala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Rala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rala)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/25 "2012-07-14T09:31:52Z")
20, Australia. I say lollipop. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/26 "2012-07-15T03:53:35Z")
Other: it depends on the size and shape. They’re all suckers unless they are fairly large, flat and round–those are lollipops. Well, those with stuff inside them are also not suckers–they’re whatever-pops: e.g. Blowpops or Tootsie (Roll) pops. I guess those are derived from lollipop. Born and bred here in northwest Arkansas in the very middle of the 80s. EDIT: powdery candy were usually sourpops or sweettart pops. But you could still call them suckers. The chewy ones (like taffy or Tootsie Rolls) could also be called chewpops. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/27 "2012-07-15T04:18:13Z")
60s Illinois Sucker Lollipop always sounded a little twee. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/28 "2012-07-15T04:21:39Z")
Mid-50s, grew up in West Texas and have always said “sucker.” I only ever heard “lollipop” in movies and such. Until I came over here. There is Lollipop go-go bar in Nana Plaza. And a new blow-job bar opened about a year ago called Lollipop1, the “1” added so as not to get confused with the go-go bar. ---
**Author:** ![the\_apples\_fell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@the\_apples\_fell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_apples_fell)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/29 "2012-07-15T05:30:51Z")
I only hear older people call them suckers. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/30 "2012-07-15T15:17:59Z")
> [@the\_apples\_fell](#): > > I only hear older people call them suckers. Although there’s a sucker born every minute. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/31 "2012-07-15T16:02:37Z")
Lollipop. Grew up in Baltimore, and have lived in L.A. for the past 20 years. I didn’t know “sucker” was a regionalism and still in common use. It sounds very old-fashioned to my ears, like something Grandpa Simpson or Mr. Burns would use. ---
**Author:** ![tadtooornamental](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@tadtooornamental](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tadtooornamental)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/32 "2012-07-15T17:09:13Z")
26, WI To me, suckers have always been the cheapies, like the DumDums that I buy by the bag. Lollipops are the pricier, gourmet ones that I buy by the piece. Also- usually last for the better part of an hour. ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/33 "2012-07-15T20:07:27Z")
> [@Lightlystarched](#): > > Lollipops are spherical. Suckers are disk-shaped. > > Age 42, grew up in Phoenix. It’s the opposite here. Lollipops are disk-shaped and flat sided, whereas suckers are spherical. 26, Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/34 "2012-07-15T20:46:46Z")
> [@Lightlystarched](#): > > Lollipops are spherical. Suckers are disk-shaped. > > Age 42, grew up in Phoenix. This is the distinction I remember growing up in Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/35 "2012-07-15T21:30:24Z")
Definitely sucker, regardless of shape, but I wouldn’t think it strange for someone to call it a lollipop, just not what I 'd say. ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/36 "2012-07-15T21:52:17Z")
Age 33 - grew up in RI, lollipop. My husband, same age, grew up in CO, and calls them suckers. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/37 "2012-07-15T22:19:11Z")
Lollipop - South African, from 70s on. Here, a sucker is a flavoured ice lolly on a stick (Popsicle). ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/38 "2012-07-16T01:31:10Z")
Lollipops are big, suckers are small enough to fit in your mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/39 "2012-07-16T02:35:30Z")
43, spent my childhood in Mississippi, sucker. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132/40 "2012-07-16T17:39:23Z")
They’re all suckers to me. I’ve always known the term lollipop, I just don’t use it myself and I don’t differentiate based on the size or shape of the candy. I’m 28, raised in Indiana. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lollipop-or-sucker/628132.md?page=1)