Okay, so one day my little brother-tyke comes home. And what does he have. BUT. A Whistle Pop, he tells me. So it’s this little three, four inch (not counting the slidestick) piece of candy, with a fipple-head type thing.
It’s not a penny-/tin type of whistle, more of a slide whistle. You blow into the hollow, shaped piece of candy, the stick is a slide that lets you change the notes. It actually doesn’t sound too bad, it has a smoky type of sound…though honestly, the slurping drippy noises is slightly off-putting. I played Mary Had a Little Lamb on it before my brother demanded it back to devour.
It’d be odd if they actually made a tinwhistle pop… It wouldn’t be practical for the body to be made of candy, sticky fingers and all…but I guess if the head was the only thing that was candy, it would be too little. HMM.
Your thoughts?
Edit: He just chomped off the head. I feel a vague sense of loss.
the Toot Sweets seemed to have more than one note to them. I do believe that they commented (Truly did if I am not mistaken) that there were holes in the candy. And during the infamous candy factory scene, they seemed to be actually using their fingers quite a bit to play them. So I would say, in my expert opinion, that they were multi noted.
Aha, your brother found the infamous “Melody Pop” by Chupa Chups. You can buy them online from candy shops, though I’ve yet to find a shop with a reasonable price and on-the-level-seeming service. Haven’t looked very hard, though.
I brought some of these to a C&F session once, but no one wanted to play a tune. Shame.
We had a very funny advertising campaign in the UK featuring this very car, where they didn’t pay their road tax and got clamped, or something. Anyway, I guess you had to be there.
Ok ok ok…it’s all coming back now…right holes in the candy…
see, they thought it was a manufacturing flaw, goshdarnit, holes in the candy!
a disaster! how would this situation ever be remedied?
Then, smart ol’ Dick VanDyke (as whatever his name was) has this brilliant notion to blow on them, launching a new candy sensation, and a factory-wide song and dance number.
(Wish I could remember if toot sweets even existed in the original book by Ian Fleming…anyone else?)
You’re right! I think I was so freaked by the “kid catcher” when I was little, (who, btw, did not exist in the book, I don’t believe,) that I’ve repressed the memory.
I know, I figured that out in recent years too. you kind half expect Truly to strip down to her skivvies and then Beny start chasing her around with goofy music in the background
) multi or single note?
Yup! 
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