Comments on: Tootsie Pop Wrapper Legend

By: sister4eyes

sister4eyes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:42:26 +0000

I’m 32, and when I was in grade school our bus driver used to let us stop at a local general store on Friday afternoons if we’d behaved all week. If you had a Tootsie Pop wrapper with the Indian shooting an arrow with the star on the end, you could turn it in for a free Tootsie Pop. The store is closed now, and none of our local gas stations honor this. I’ve still got a few saved in case I ever run across a store that still does this. What a fun childhood memory!

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:00:40 +0000

This worked for me as a kid. My local ice cream man AND the guy who sold candy at little league practice would trade free tootsie pops for a wrapper with the Indian on it. My BF says it worked for him as well even though we lived 400 miles apart as kids.

By: adrienne

adrienne — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:48:17 +0000

i am 13 and have been told many differents sides of the story. 1 story is what many of you have been saying, if you have a wrapper with an indian shooting a star you get a free bag of Tootsie Pops. i just heard this yesterday at my school play that if you have an indian shooting a star and 3 full circles you get a free bag of Tootsie Pops.

By: rifle

rifle — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:26:32 +0000

I just got back from a meeting and had a tootsie pop with an indian shooting the star. It made me think of when I was in grade school (I’m 37 now) and I would buy tootsie pops and got a 1-to-1 exchange for a free pop if you got the full indian & star (no partials!). I just had to look this up and see if this was still real. I am sad to learn that this has always been a myth, even when I was younger. But, you know, it makes me think real warmly of the little mini-market (mom & pop type) where we stopped every Sunday after church for gas and I could get a tootsie pop (either by turning in a wrapper or buying one). They must have been really good people because I never knew it to be a myth – I assumed it was sponsered. Kind of funny now to think of it – assuming that all these mini-market owners across the country bagging all the turned in wrappers and mailing them back to the tootsie roll company! LOL! To think, it was just good folks treating kids to a free piece of candy.

By: autumn

autumn — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:41:31 +0000

hi,my name is autumn.I have 3 tootsie roll wrappers with an indian and a star if anyone knows how i can turn these in somewere and get a free sucker please reply

By: sugar nose

sugar nose — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:54:24 +0000

i just bought two bags of tootsie roll pops. the indian was on almost every wrapper in the bag. i live in brooklyn and i dont think the indian has been removed. me and the indian still living the dream. thanks princess.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:13:46 +0000

This is TOTALLY TRUE!!!!

I’m 30 and this was the case at my local store it was a campaign by Tootsie Roll…. You had to get the complete indian to get a free one and if you haven’t noticed they have taken the indian off because of this issue.

By: Virginia

Virginia — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:07:22 +0000

I’ve always wondered if it’s true or not…
As a child, not that long ago as I’m only 21, any time our lollipop wrapper had the indian and the star they would allow us to receive our free sucker.

Up to this date the local store has never objected to it.

By: Jean

Jean — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:19:55 +0000

A co-worker just gave me one – I’m brought back to walking down the street to the local candy store when I was 7 to get my free Tootsie Pop. They still do it today and I’m now 25! :-)

By: Kitty Kat

Kitty Kat — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:10:35 +0000

In elementry school all the kids would obsess over the indians saying u could get 1 free. I never tried. I still always look for the indian and star though. =D