How many licks DOES it take to get to the centre???

Question

of a tootsie roll

Answer 1

Centre? Are you canadian?

Anyway, I thought the owl definitively determined that it takes only three licks to get to the center.

Answer 2

It takes 854 licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop.

I figured it out a few summers ago. It took me 2 hours to do.

Answer 3

for me??  

about 10 before i bite.. I can't help it...I like to bite

Answer 4

bradsgra beat me to it!  The world may never know!

Answer 5

A group of engineering students from Purdue University recorded that their l*****g machine, modeled after a human tongue, took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. They tried the same l*****g test on 20 volunteers and found that the average licks to the center were 252 licks.



Plans for the Purdue l*****g machine

A chemical engineering doctorate student from the University of Michigan recorded that his l*****g machine required an average of 411 licks per Tootsie Pop.

A group of students at Swathmore School used human lickers in a scientific experiment and determined it took an average of 144 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.



Junior high students at Swarthmore School conducting their study in sweets

Based on the wide range of results from these scientific studies, it is clear that the world may never know how many licks it really takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop.

Answer 6

the world may never know, according to the owl.

Answer 7

it takes me around 317-330 everytime. (yeah, i actually count) it just matters how you l**k it.