A Dum Dum Pop (or
Dum Dum) is a sphere-shaped lollipop named by I.C. Bahr, a Sales Manager at the
Akron Candy Company in Bellevue, Ohio, in 1924.
Dum Dums are made
from sugar and corn syrup that is cooked before coloring and flavoring are
added. After pressing, the stick is then added.
Dum Dums are made
in sixteen flavors with new flavors rotating into the mix every so often. The
Mystery Flavor continuously changes and according to Spangler Candy Company,
the mystery flavor is not limited to the current Dum Dums flavor mix.
The flavor is
created when production switches from one flavor to another. Instead of taking
the time to clean out machinery, two different flavors are merged, meaning a
mystery flavor can be a different combination every time.
