erm.. I think this could have been worded a little better...

[arethinn]

I mean really. The word "lollipops" would have fit in that space just fine.

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[ahril.livejournal.com]

Ah, but technically, lollipops are round like spheres. Anything flat is indeed, a sucker.

[arethinn]

Unless that's official confectioners' jargon, I think what we have here is a case of regional usage. Pretty much any hard-sugar-on-a-stick is called a "lollipop" out here (except "rock candy"). (enotsola often uses the term "lolly" which is a bit odd-sounding to me, but I guess a Britishism that's in Canadian English.) Also, they used the words "pop" and "lollipop" elsewhere in the catalog for things that are not spherical. Maybe they were just trying not to be repetitive, but in this case it was an amusing juxtaposition (which was really the whole point of this).

[ahril.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's confectioner's jargon. I think what you've got there is an advertising copywriter who didn't do his/her homework.

BUT, given the slant of the whole ad in the first place, it IS rather amusing, which WAS your point.

Sorry, just rambling about with yet another useless piece of technical trivia that will be forever taking up space in my brain. Don't mind me.

[arethinn]

Out of curiosity (now I really wanna know! heh), got any references? I'm not having luck finding a list of confectionery terms on the net, and everything I can find on "lollipop" and "sucker" uses them essentially interchangeably, including pages on the history of the words and the candy itself (ca. early 20th century in the meaning we know today, apparently), with no particular reference to the shape of the candy.