Sugar Daddy (candy)

Sugar Daddy is a candy bar on a stick manufactured by Tootsie Roll Industries that is essentially a moderately hard brick of caramel. A bite-sized caramel-flavored jelly bean candy based on the Sugar Daddy is marketed under the name Sugar Babies.

An unwrapped Large Pop

The James O. Welch Company was purchased by Nabisco (now Mondelēz International) in 1963. The Welch brands were sold to Warner-Lambert in 1988; Tootsie Roll Industries acquired them in 1993.^[1]

Today, Sugar Daddy candies are produced in two standard sizes, the Junior Pop, with 53 kcal, and the Large Pop, with 200 kcal. For Valentine's Day and Christmas, there are also giant sizes: half-pound with 964 kcal, and one-pound with 1928 kcal.^[2]

See also

• List of confectionery brands
• Sugar Babies
• Sugar Mama

References

1. Kimmerle, Beth (November 2003). Candy: The Sweet History. Collectors Press, Inc. p. 156. ISBN 1-888054-83-2.
2. "Tootsie Roll Inc". tootsie.com.