Tootsie Pops: Part Deux

Following up on an earlier post covering Mr. Owl and his famous Tootsie Pop commercial, I stumbled across this "Soup to Nutz" comic strip in today's paper.


So I began to suspect there was more to this story than I had ever realized. Some in-depth research lead me to discover this:


Well, THAT certainly explains a lot. I now also understand why they found 32,000 Tootsie Pops in Dick Cheney's desk after he left office.