Fun Dip
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| Alternative names | Lik-M-Aid | ||||||
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| Type | Candy | ||||||
| Place of origin | United States, Canada | ||||||
| Created by | Fruzola | ||||||
| Invented | 1950 | ||||||
| Main ingredients | Sugar | ||||||
| .05kcal(0kJ) | |||||||
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| Similar dishes | Pixy Stix | ||||||
Fun Dipis acandymanufactured by theFerrara Candy Company.The candy has been on the market in theUnited StatesandCanadasince the 1940s[1]and was originally calledLik-M-Aid.It was originally manufactured byFruzola,[2]and thenSunline Inc.,through their Sunmark Brands division. It was purchased byNestléin January 1989. Fun Dip was sold to Ferrara Candy company in 2018 along with otherWonka Candy Brands.[3]It comes in many different flavors with candy sticks that are included.
Fun Dip is similar to another Wonka productPixy Stix,but sold in small pouches, rather than paper or plasticstraws.When called Lik-M-Aid, it consisted of 4 packets of flavored and coloredsugar.When rebranded in the 1970s as Fun Dip, two edible candy sticks called "Lik-A-Stix" were added.[1][4]While the original flavors consisted of lime, cherry and grape, the most common flavors arecherry,grape,and araspberry/applecombination that turns from blue when dry to green when wet withsalivaorwater.It also comes insourflavors, including sourwatermelon,sourapple,and sourlemonade,as well as Tropical flavors, including watermelon sandía, mango, and strawberry fresa. There is also orange flavored Fun Dip. Since 2012, there has been an Easter edition known as Springtime Fun Dip, which includes the flavors of watermelon and strawberry. Packets with one stick and two flavors were once the standard, and packets with only one or two flavors are still available with less prominence than the now-standard three-flavor package.
Gallery
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Flavored sugar sticking to the sugar stick -
Dipping the sugar stick in the pouch -
Original packaging and name -
![Fun Dip before Nestle acquisition[5]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Fundiphistoric.jpg/120px-Fundiphistoric.jpg)
Fun Dip before Nestle acquisition[5]
![Fun Dip before Nestle acquisition[5]](/translate/en.wikipedia.org?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AFundiphistoric.jpg&t=hv)
See also
[edit]- Double Dip (confectionery),a similar product sold in the United Kingdom
- List of confectionery brands
References
[edit]- ^ab"Lik-M-Aid - Fun Dip - OldTimeCandy.com".OldTimeCandy.com.Archived fromthe originalon 2013-11-01.
- ^"Fun Dip and Lik-M-Aid – A powdery-sugar-filled retrospective".CollectingCandy.com.25 April 2012.
- ^"Ferrero to overhaul Butterfinger and Crunch after merging Ferrara and Nestlé US candy".confectionerynews.com.31 May 2018.
- ^"Seventy years of minutes from the Lik-M-Aid Corporation's annual board rchive".archive.is.Archived fromthe originalon 2013-10-30.Retrieved2013-10-30.
- ^CollectingCandy.com "Fun Dip and Lik-M-Aid – A powdery-sugar-filled retrospective.