I just picked my youngest daughter up from her Daisy meeting after school (It’s a division of Brownies/Girl Scouts for kindergarteners). Since they only meet once a week they had a Valentine’s Day party at today’s meeting.
When we looked through her goodie bag low and behold there was a little item called a “Fruity Flute”. It’s essentially a lolly-pop but the candy part is molded into a fipple and the stick is a hollow straw. The whole thing is about 3 inches long. It’s too small to have any finger holes so it only has one note, and it doesn’t play that very well. Fresh out of the wrapper it didn’t make any sound at all. It does seem to be getting better as it’s being eaten. Just goes to show you, most cheap whistles benefit from a little tweeking.
By the way, I didn’t lay claim to it. It’s my daughter that’s doing the tweeking. I may have WHOA but I wouldn’t stoop to stealing candy from a kid.
I think I’ve had a similiar sweet here when I was younger. It was a kind of lollypop with a fipple, but this one had thin, hard, hollow lollypop handle (much like a hard drinking straw) with a slide you can pull or insert to change the tone of the note (like a slide whistle, if thats what a slide is).
That’s called a melody pop (the slide whistle one) There are a couple of candy stores online which sell them but when I placed an order once they lost the order (never acknowledged the form submission) and I didn’t trust them after that. I think it was candydirect.com if anyone wants to try it out.
I remember very vaguely a Panpipe-molded sort of candy from my childhood. Like Panpipes except you blew through it, ie, it had a blade, rather than across it. It wasn’t great candy, kind of waxy, but was a lot of fun to play.
I seem to remember something like that when I was a kid, but it was called Blow Pop. Maybe it’s the same thing, with the name changed in light of more recent sexual and/or drug related issues
Eldarion, you’ve described it exactly except it didn’t have the slide.
And the first thing I thought of were “Toot Sweets” also. Too many hours of watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang when my kids were in the watch the same movie over and over again phase.
Avanutria, you’re right! Melody pop is the name of the sweet/slide-whistle thingy, but it slipped my mind. You aren’t really missing much really if you can’t get it - full of artificial flavouring/sweetening and colouring! It was just pretty entertaining to have one of those as a child.
