10 Interesting Junk Food Facts
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1) What the M’s Stand for in M&Ms
2) Pringles aren’t Actually Potato Chips
3) The Snickers Candy Bar was Named After a Horse
4) Why Pop Rocks Pop
5) How Many Licks It Takes to Get to the Center of a Tootsie Pop
6) Mr. Goodbar was Originally Sold Under a Fictitious Company Brand Name
7) The same guy invented Tang, Cool Whip, Pop Rocks…
8) Tang was Not Invented for the Space Program
9) Tootsie Rolls were Named After the Daughter of Their Creator
10) All Lifesavers Spark When Chewed, Not Just Wintergreen Lifesavers
2) Pringles aren’t Actually Potato Chips
3) The Snickers Candy Bar was Named After a Horse
4) Why Pop Rocks Pop
5) How Many Licks It Takes to Get to the Center of a Tootsie Pop
6) Mr. Goodbar was Originally Sold Under a Fictitious Company Brand Name
7) The same guy invented Tang, Cool Whip, Pop Rocks…
8) Tang was Not Invented for the Space Program
9) Tootsie Rolls were Named After the Daughter of Their Creator
10) All Lifesavers Spark When Chewed, Not Just Wintergreen Lifesavers
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Snickers was originally named Marathon but the name was changed when they expanded the sale of the product to other countries
@Sleepy: Sources? From everything I’ve read about the history of Snickers it was only called Marathon in the United Kingdom and Ireland and then only until around 1990 when the name was changed to Snickers to match the name it had always been sold under in the rest of the world.
I didn’t know that lifesavers candy would create sparks when broke up.
Hahah I remember Tang. My father’s old restaurant was next door to the Tang factory and we used to serve a lot of those guys. Crazy seeing 100 foot tanks of orange powder.
Just think if Mars hadn’t have gotten bought out with the M&Ms, how much that would be worth today! 🙂
When I was in 4th grade (1978/79) it took my friend and I (ew gross to do this but what do kids care?) 847 random ‘licks’ to get to the center of a tootsie roll tootsie pop.
(smaller person is smaller lick I guess). 😛
I was not aware of this, the article was pretty interesting. I just love snickers and enjoyed reading about it. 🙂
My dad used to bring a bunch of it for me every time I scored well in the exams; may be, that inspired me to do study well..:-)
All hard sugar candies spark? I have a hard time swallowing that one. Ba-dum tsshh! Thank you very much.