Fun Dip is a
candy
Candy, also called sweets (British English) or lollies (Australian English
Australian English (AusE, AusEng, AuE, AuEng, en-AU) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Australia. It is the country's common language an ...
manufactured by the
Ferrara Candy Company. The candy has been on the market in the
United States and
Canada since the 1940s
and was originally called Lik-M-Aid. It was originally manufactured by
Fruzola, and then
Sunline Inc.
Sunmark Corporation (formerly Sunline Inc.) was a candy confectionery company based in St. Louis, Missouri. The company was founded by Menlo F. Smith in 1952 as an offshoot of the company owned by his father, Joseph Fish Smith. They invented many ...
, through their Sunmark Brands division. It was purchased by
Nestlé in January 1989. Fun Dip was sold to Ferrara Candy company in 2018 along with other Wonka Candy Brands. It comes in many different flavors with candy sticks that are included.
Fun Dip is similar to fellow Wonka product
Pixy Stix
Pixy Stix are a sweet and sour colored powdered candy usually packaged in a wrapper that resembles a drinking straw.
The candy is usually poured into the mouth from the wrapper, which is made out of plastic or paper. Pixy Stix contain dextrose, ...
, but sold in small pouches, rather than paper or plastic
straws. When called Lik-M-Aid, it consisted of 4 packets of flavored and colored
sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose, and galactose. Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double ...
. When rebranded in the 1970s as Fun Dip, two edible candy sticks called "Lik-A-Stix" were added.
While the original flavors consisted of lime, cherry and grape, the most common flavors are
cherry
A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus ''Prunus'', and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).
Commercial cherries are obtained from cultivars of several species, such as the sweet ''Prunus avium'' and the sour ''Prunus cerasus''. The nam ...
,
grape, and a
raspberry
The raspberry is the edible fruit of a multitude of plant species in the genus ''Rubus'' of the rose family, most of which are in the subgenus '' Idaeobatus''. The name also applies to these plants themselves. Raspberries are perennial with w ...
/
apple combination that turns from blue when dry to green when wet with
saliva
Saliva (commonly referred to as spit) is an extracellular fluid produced and secreted by salivary glands in the mouth. In humans, saliva is around 99% water, plus electrolytes, mucus, white blood cells, epithelial cells (from which DNA can be ...
or
water. It also comes in
sour flavors, including sour
watermelon, sour
apple, and sour
lemonade. There is also orange flavored Fun Dip. 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
File:Fun-Dip-in-Action.jpg, Flavored sugar sticking to the sugar stick
File:Fundip.jpg, Dipping the sugar stick in the pouch
File:Likmaidhistoric.png, Original packaging and name
File:Fundiphistoric.jpg, Fun Dip before Nestle acquisitionCollectingCandy.com "Fun Dip and Lik-M-Aid – A powdery-sugar-filled retrospective.
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See also
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Double Dip (confectionery), a similar product sold in the United Kingdom
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List of confectionery brands
References
{{Willy Wonka Candy Company products
The Willy Wonka Candy Company brands
Brand name confectionery
Candy