Bomb Pops are a frozen confection currently manufactured by Blue Bunny. The original flavor contains Cherry, Lime, and Blue Raspberry flavorings. There are ten main Bomb Pop flavors. The current Bomb Pop flavors are Original, Original Jr., Lickety Lix, Fudge, Tongue Splashers, Cherry Jr., Sour Power Jr., Jolly Rancher

Jolly Rancher

Jolly Rancher is a brand of candy, including hard candy, gummies, fruit chews, jellybeans, lollipops, and sodas. It is currently owned by Hershey. The product was originally produced by the Jolly Rancher Company, founded in 1949 by Bill and Dorothy Harmsen of Golden, Colorado...

, Sour Cherry Tear Jerkers, and Watermelon

History

Bomb Pops were invented by James S. Merritt and D.S. Abernethy in Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

 on July 30, 1955. When D.S Abernethy's company Merritt Foods closed down, Wells' Dairy bought the business including Bomb Pops.

In 1999, Stephen Labaton of The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

used bombpop.com as an example of why there needs to be new rules to protect children's privacy. Any child that wanted to win a Nintendo Game Boy

Game Boy

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 had to fill out their personal information including their address.

In 2003, The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...

 made a deal with Wells' Dairy to release Buzz Lightyear

Buzz Lightyear

Buzz Lightyear is a character and the main deuteragonist of the Toy Story franchise. Buzz is a space ranger action figure and the co-leader of Andy's Room. He has also appeared in the movie Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins and the television series spin-off Buzz Lightyear of...

 Bomb Pops.

Blue Bunny celebrated Bomb Pops' 50th anniversary in 2005 by starting a sweepstakes

Sweepstakes

The United States consumer sales promotion known as a sweepstake has become associated with marketing promotions targeted toward both generating enthusiasm and providing incentive reactions among customers by enticing consumers to submit free entries into drawings of chance...

. The sweepstakes included giving a trip to Disneyland to two winners and giving 50 winners a Game Boy Advance

Game Boy Advance

The is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo. It is the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001; in North America on June 11, 2001; in Australia and Europe on June 22, 2001; and in the People's Republic of China...

. The 50th anniversary was also the start of National Bomb Pop Day which is celebrated on the last Thursday in June.

Health

Wells Dairy released Sugar Free Bomb Pops that have few calories, few carbohydrates, and no fat. The newspaper Western Kansas Word said that it is a good choice for people with diabetes. The flavor is the original.

Shape posted images of two Bomb Pop flavors together asking readers to decide what one has fewer calories. The images compared the original flavor and the Firecracker flavor that has vitamin c

Vitamin C

Vitamin C or L-ascorbic acid or L-ascorbate is an essential nutrient for humans and certain other animal species. In living organisms ascorbate acts as an antioxidant by protecting the body against oxidative stress...

 from real fruit juice and is fat free.