Lollipop

By Antonio Martínez and Andreu Ribes

The lollipop, pop, lolly, sucker or sticky-pop is a type of sweet at the end of a stick.They are available in many tastes and forms.

The invention of the lollipop is a mistery and a lot of Americans companies say that they have invented it in the 20th century. There is a book, "Food For Thought", which explains that the lollipops were invented by George Smith from New Haven, Connecticut, who started making sweets on sticks in 1908. He named them after a racehorse, Lolly Pop.

The first time that people ate what we call lollipops was about the Middle Ages, but the idea of the lollipop is very simple and it's possible that a lot of people have invented this sweet before.

Chupa Chups is a very important lollipop company founded in Spain by Enric Bernat in 1958. Its name comes from the Spanish verb chupar, meaning "to suck".

This company created a lot of lollipops with many tastes, but they created only one shape, circular form.