Anyway, the licking machine averaged 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, while 20 members of the group licked the old fashioned way (with human tongues) and averaged 252 licks.

Mathematicians discover how many licks it really takes. — -- The little Tootsie Pop boy can finally rest easy. Mathematicians at New York University conducted a very important experiment to ...

Which brings us to that cold open gag, a super sexual re-edit of the “how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop” ad campaign from the 1960s and ’70s.