{"id":5887,"date":"2011-09-22T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T07:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2011-11-08T20:38:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T04:38:16","slug":"where-the-name-tootsie-roll-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/where-the-name-tootsie-roll-came-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Name &#8220;Tootsie Roll&#8221; Came From"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tootsie-roll-name-origin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5888\" title=\"tootsie-roll-name-origin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tootsie-roll-name-origin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tootsie-roll-name-origin.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tootsie-roll-name-origin-340x294.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>Tootsie Rolls were named after creator Leo Hirshfield\u2019s five year old daughter whose nickname was \u201cTootsie\u201d (her real name was Clara Hirshfield).\u00a0 Hirshfield set out to create a chocolate that wouldn\u2019t melt easily and eventually came up with the artificial \u201cchocolate\u201d candy the tootsie roll.\u00a0 This ability to not melt easily and to use artificial ingredients that weren\u2019t being rationed during war times proved a huge boon for the company as it eventually began being included in all soldier\u2019s rations during WWII.\u00a0 The low price of the artificial ingredients also made it a popular treat during the depression along with the tootsie pop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/how-many-licks-it-takes-to-get-to-the-center-of-a-tootsie-roll-tootsie-pop\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn How Many Licks it Takes to Get to the Center of a Tootsie Pop<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Tootsie Rolls were named after creator Leo Hirshfield\u2019s five year old daughter whose nickname was \u201cTootsie\u201d (her real name was Clara Hirshfield).\u00a0 Hirshfield set out to create a chocolate that wouldn\u2019t melt easily and eventually came up with the artificial \u201cchocolate\u201d candy the tootsie roll.\u00a0 This ability to not melt easily and to use artificial ingredients that weren\u2019t being [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[923,922],"class_list":["post-5887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-business-facts","tag-etymology-tootsie-roll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6882,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions\/6882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}