1, 2, 3...
You may be to young to remember the TV commercial that is the inspiration for this day.
Click here to watch it. (It's very short.)
Obviously, it takes more licks than that to get to the center, so your celebratory task today is to find out how many it really takes.
First, you need to get a bag of Tootsie Pops, assuming you don't already have one...and why would you, unless they were on sale.
Then take your favorite flavor and start licking and counting.
Then you probably should also take your least favorite flavor and do the same to see if the choice of flavor makes a difference.
Then you should do it again with a third flavor for statistical reasons.
Actually, you might as well count each one in the whole bag to get a better average. I'm assuming that you won't get the same lick count for every Tootsie Pop.
You're welcome.