How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? :)

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? :)
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? 🙂

This question must be seriously important, because I get it frequently. It’s also important to Tootsie Roll Inc. They have compiled a review of the literature (including results of “licking machine” studies): bit.ly/TootsieLicking. Short answer, somewhere in the low hundreds of licks.