Americans of Twitter—what do you call these? This category of thing it is? The American I have access to, @alifeofmovement is stumped.
(I would call them lollies, for reference.)pic.twitter.com/8a1rC4TT70
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Replying to @utotranslucence @alifeofmovement
I feel like it started with gumdrops, which are abstract. And then we got gummy bears, gummy worms, gummy everything. And since they are all more or less the same experience and often mixed together, they collectively became “gummies”
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(I'm Aussie) would candy cover it too?
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Nah that’s way too broad. Candy includes hard candies and chocolate and minty things and so forth
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I agree, but OP used lollies as the reference, and to me candy and lollies are the same generic-sweet-thing term, so I wondered
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It’s weird. I think that British people use ‘lollies’ as a synonym for the American ‘candy’, whereas Australians normally use it mean soft/chewy sweets—can any real British people confirm this?
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Replying to @utotranslucence @sparkleglitch13 and
Yes a lolly is a candy on a stick
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Replying to @ssica3003 @sparkleglitch13 and
Woah wait what? What would you call it if someone handed you a basket with lollipops, chocolate bars, gummy bears, and skittles in it? I would call that a bag of lollies.
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Replying to @utotranslucence @sparkleglitch13 and
Noooooo a bag of sweets I guess
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Replying to @ssica3003 @utotranslucence and
Lollies is short for lollipops
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