National Tootsie Roll Day

Do you have a sweet tooth? Sure you do! We all love candy. And you’ll be happy to know that today is a candy food holiday. So, it’s definitely going to be a fun time. Someone was nice enough to declare National Tootsie Roll Day today. On this February 23 holiday we celebrate and enjoy this chewy chocolate candy treat. Tootsie Roll are one of American’s most popular candies.

Tootsie rolls have been around for over a hundred years. We ae so thankful that an Austrian immigrant to America in the early 1900s opened a candy store in Brooklyn, NY. As a confectioner, he invented the tootsie roll, and the candy world quickly became a much sweeter one. The objective of this holiday is twofold. First, we celebrate this bite sized candy and its creator. Second, we celebrate by eating tootsie rolls all day long. And yes, that means we can eat them for breakfast today if you want. We know that you do.

Did you know

• Today, over 64 million of the candies are manufactured daily.
• Tootsie Rolls were the first candy to be individually wrapped. 
• They originally sold for a penny.
• Tootsie Pops were introduced in 1935.