Win a Tootsie Pop?
February 13, 2007
We were given Tootsie Roll Pops today in class and and I was reminded of one of the great joys of my childhood. When I was younger, there was a way to get a free Tootsie Roll Pop. And it has to do with the image on the right. Click on the image on the right and let me know what you notice. Do you see how this wrapper is different than other wrappers? Do you see why one might get excited when looking at this wrapper?
Apparently, I was the only person who had ever actually won the free Tootsie Roll Pops. Many people had never even heard of this. So, click on the picture on the right - take a long, hard look at it and leave a comment with how this wrapper might allow someone to win a free Tootsie Roll Pop.
Tags: Contests, Prizes, Tootsie-Popp, Tootsie-Roll, Tootsie-Roll-Pops
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: I am a 28 yr old 
February 13th, 2007 at 8:50 am
I’m all about the free tootsie roll pop. How could they not know about the star? :-) Does this mean I get a free one?
P.S. Your site is showing up weird on my computer…not sure if it’s my problem or your site…
February 13th, 2007 at 8:57 am
No one knew yesterday Jessica. So odd. You’re a Mac-user right? What browser do you use? I just checked Firefox & Safari and the site looks good in both…what is it looking like?
February 13th, 2007 at 10:55 am
So the star is not on every wrapper? Wow! I did not know that. It makes you kind of wonder about advertisements. How much do they change on you over the years and you don’t even notice. Hey…I could use that as an illustration some day!
Have a great one!
February 13th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Sorry to burst your bubble. But the Tootsie Roll company has never endorsed the star on the wrapper promotion.
http://www.snopes.com/business/redeem/tootsie.asp
February 13th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Gus, whether or not the Tootsie Roll Company has never endorsed the star on the wrapper promotion - it used to work at the Mini Mart in Chehalis, WA.
February 13th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Bro. Star. Totally. I’m with you. Maybe it was a Washington thing? If it wasn’t real, I did a good job of stealing from “the man” by turning them in to my local candy store for another tootsie pop. Thanks for the memories.
February 13th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Yo.
The star was all we went for as kids. I don’t remember specifically recieving a free Tootsie Pop, but I remember you were cooler with the star. I think maybe my teacher would give us free ones for the stars…
Star = Coolness.
(I’m from AZ)
February 13th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
ummmm, in Arkansas the star was the stuff. we saved the wrappers with that damn star hoping for free pops. however, it WAS Arkansas…so we didn’t have much else going on.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
The star…yeah…had my fair share of free candy….while the major stores do not accept it may liquor stores still do….
February 13th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
it’s not JUST the star, right? it’s the arrow shooting at the star… at least that was the only way we got to win a free pop. i remember when the promotion ended… i never knew until i took in about 5 wrappers and was shot down!! sad day
February 14th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Yeah, so when I was home from college a few years ago, I found an envelope with about 20 wrappers. I learned a good lesson about not hoarding.
However. . . speaking of stars
U.S. Bank has a 5-star policy on customer service. One of their things is that if you stand in line for more than 5 minutes and call them on it, they put $5 in your account. I used to despise walking ino the bank at 4:30 on a Friday and seeing the long line of paystubs. Now I plan on it and rejoice at the sight of long lines.
I haven’t decided yet if I think it’s ethical or not, but I do know that it’s less painful than selling plasma.
Thanks for bringing back good childhood memories Adam.
February 14th, 2007 at 1:04 am
It has star…
February 14th, 2007 at 11:31 am
It is terrible that this company is allowed to portray an “Indian” shooting at a star wearing traditional headdress and sporting a bow and arrow. It is intolerant and bigoted.
/sarcasm off.
February 14th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
That’s my wrapper!!
It is on the internet. It is famous.
February 14th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Not a Washington thing. I was born in rural upper peninsula Michigan and looked hungrily for the “indian shooting the star.” Actually I think it was when I moved to WA that I started hearing people say it was a myth!
I love lore lore like that. Always have. Even when I was little I deliberately kept myself in the dark about whether or not the free lollypop thing was true. Dispite my sweet tooth, the satisfaction was in the suspense and the mystery.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Yeah, I am from WA and the Native Indigenous First Nations person shooting the star was worth trading for. I think I remember trading a Return of the Jedi card with Princess Leia in the bikini for 5 star wrappers. And that was an awesome bikini!
February 16th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
BTW - sarcastic wit cannot be seen on the internet. I am Native American.
February 16th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
I used to feel special that it was the Indian guy who produced the free tootsie pops.
February 20th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
I remember looking for the indian with the star when I was a little kid! We may not have gotten free candy directly from the Tootsie Roll people, but there was a small grocery store near my grandma’s house that used to honor the legend of the indian and the star. We always checked, everytime……….I still do……just for fun!
I live in Iowa ;)
February 27th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
I found an indian shooting a star a second ago how do i get the prize
March 15th, 2007 at 1:14 am
WOW! I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS LITTLE GOING TO THE 7-11 DOWN THE ROAD AND BUYING TOOTSIE POPS, IF THE WRAPPER HAD THE FULL PICTURE OF THE INDIAN SHOOTING THE STARR YOU COULD BRING THE WARAPPER IN FOR A FREE TOOTSIE POP. BRINGS BACK SOME MEMORIES :)
March 15th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
My 6 year old (who’s part Sioux Indian) knows that his ancestor shooting for the stars means good luck…. The Tootsie Roll company very specifically says they have never endorsed it, but I’d rather have a great teeth than more cavities :)
March 15th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
I mean a great day!!!!
April 9th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
The indian at the right is shooting star and that is good luck.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
The indian shooting the star is the best of the best lucks. It must be a full indian, not cut in half at the edge of the wrapper. The prize is the wrapper itself.
April 17th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
I work at a bank inside of a grocery store and one of the guys just brought us some pops. 2 of us looked for the star!!! So I googled “Tootsie Star” and this came up. I’m excited! I didn’t get a star, but I got cherry. That’s good enough for me!
The 7-11 used to do it but there are new owners (Mishawaka, IN) (mishawaka///indians? correlation? I don’t know haha)
and A “Tom Thumb” in Homestead, FL used to do it for me as a tot.
May 6th, 2007 at 2:09 am
I’m from Wisconsin and I don’t remember ever actually trading in the rappers for a free Tootsie Pop, but we were told you could, but the wrapper was good luck ONLY if it contained the man shooting a star (in full - couldn’t be cut off at the edge).
May 6th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Between 1980 and 1984 I traded in several Tootsie Pop wrappers featuring the indian for free pops at the neighborhood 7-Eleven in Garden Home, Oregon (suburb of Portland). There was confusion even then among elementary school students as to whether the myth was real, and on several occassions clerks at 7-eleven turned down the request. In general, however, we weren’t turned away. Until one day a sign appeared at the candy basket informing us wrappers with stars and indians would no longer be honored.
May 10th, 2007 at 4:21 am
I had a feeling that this “contest” was not officialy endorsed by the company, so I looked it up via Google and found out that I was correct. When I was a child, here in Portland Oregon, there was a little store down the hill from my grandparent’s house where they would honor the Indian and the Star. I figured that I would not be able to continue this trade-in for candy for as long as we (the kids) would have like to, due to the fact that we never found published guidelines surrounding this promotion containing a beginning and ending date for it. It’s just nice that the store owners were kind enough to give the kids free candy if they found the Indian shooting the star. The oddest part if this experience is that, I believe I found out about it from my mother. The weirdest part of this entire experience is that, knowing my mother as I do, I rhink that my mother’s mentioning this promotion was based on her own incorrect recolections from her own childhood.
May 10th, 2007 at 4:24 am
Forgive me for the typos, misspellings, and writing what were essentially identical.
May 10th, 2007 at 4:25 am
lines. How ironic?
May 21st, 2007 at 8:37 pm
I always look for that star and everything, but I never like, turn it in.. because I never thought of it. I don’t realy get it at all.. well kinda in a way. So like, I’m confused. Ya, in a way.. I guess.
May 25th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
There is a nidian boy shooting an arrow at a star on the rapper.
June 22nd, 2007 at 1:29 am
I have the same wrapper only mine is brown, I never heard of ” the free tootsie, if you have a Indian shooting a star” before, well until now…. So being the person I am , I will keep it forever and see what happends…….
August 10th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
born in Pacoima Ca but my mother was from Boise Idaho she took us to visit back when i was a kid in 89″ there was a little market that would Honor that Promotion
i was just telling my co workers the story while enjoying a tootsi pop i now have 3 wrapper and im goin back to claim my prize..
August 13th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Isn’t the guy with the star facing the opposite way than it usually is on regular rappers with the person shooting the star?
September 21st, 2007 at 4:11 pm
yea i only heard of this myth like yesterday. i moved around a lot and now i live in georgia. im an 13 and in the 8th grade and ive only jus now …. well yesterday …heard of this.
yesterday we were reviewing for a test (that took place today) and Mr. Horne handed candy if you got a review question right. he was passing a variety of candy but everytime he gave me 1 i got a tootsie pop. now i dont mind having tootsie pops cause they are delicious. but i find it strange that out of all 3 tootsie pops that i had all had a whole indian and star on its wrapper but no one else in the class who got a tootsie pop had a star on theirs. coincidence? i dont know. but thats when i heard about this myth about the indian and the star and something about goodluck and a free tootsie pop. i wasnt sure about it so thats when i went to look it up today. everyone so far online has said that its sort of rare to get the indian but i just noticed that everytime ive eaten one there was that indian and star on the wrapper…….. weird huh?
September 29th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
I just got a tootsie pop with an indian shooting a star and decided to search for this site.
Thanks for the info.
I am 37 from Portland, Or and always knew the star was special but never tried to redeem them.
October 30th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
I was telling some people today about getting a free tootsie roll pop with the indian and star, and they’d never heard of it. As far as I know, the place that accepted the wrappers when we were kids still takes them.
November 7th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
I to was aware of the myth about the indaian and star.. so back in the 90’s i wrote tootsie pop and ask them…. thay were kind enough to send me a nice little later about the indian and star along with a story of the myth and how it got started…so for all those who want an answer to the long lived question fell frell to write to tootsie pop and they will send you a nice little letter as well,, the made it look so nice that a had it hanging on my oldest sons bedroom wall……sadley enough this is just a myth…
November 8th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
I, too, have capitalized on this Urban Legend when, as a kid, I used to go to the Plaza Superjet mini-mart here in Wenatchee, WA and could receive a free one if the wrapper had the Indian boy shooting an arrow at the star.
November 8th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
I heard this too, I lived in AZ when I heard this…. I don’t even think I tried to turn the star wrappers in but I found several of them….
If it’s not endorsed what were the stars for?
November 28th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
How do I claim my prize if I have a shooting star on my wrapper?
February 5th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Yummy. Just finished a raspberry Tootsie Roll Pop - Indian shooting a star on the wrapper and all!
I heard the stories growing up, but never tried to trade in my wrapper. But, like someone else mentioned, if you got an Indian shooting a star on your wrapper, you were the “cool” or “lucky” one!
February 10th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Grandma and Grandpa used to own N&N Sinclair station in Alden Iowa. They honored the Indian shooting a star wrapper. ‘Course we really got as much candy as we wanted anyways, but I still remember saving those Indian shooting the star wrappers, the Casey’s next door also honored the trade in…. Now that I have children of my own, I plan on taking our wrappers into town and see if they do it here at the Kangaroo Station. We live in georgia now. I”m sure that this tradition is still alive and well in the Deep South. Wish me luck!
March 17th, 2008 at 11:39 am
actually, i buy the tootsie pops by the box i have a stack of stars and when my cousins and nephews come over i give them one each and take them to the store down the street where they still give you a free tootsie pop for having a star on the wrapper. hahahah the tradition is still up and running here in chicago, It’s still a happy moment when you get those special wrappers
April 8th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
im not an aldult but im 11 years old!I was eating a tootsie roll pop and i saw an indian on the wrapper is it true that if you take to a candy store ill get a free lollipop?! Please dont swear its cursing GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
love you all
Sara
(PLEASE EMAIL ME!!!!)
April 17th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
hey yo peeps answer ME JK jk jk jjk
May 28th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
I used to take my wrapper with the Indian shooting the star to our local gas station and they honored the free tootsie roll pop
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
how did they win a free tootsie roll pop
July 11th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Yup. When I was a kid (80s) in Portland Oregon we could trade in the Indian shooting a star wrapper at the local mini mark for a free tootsie roll pop. OH the good ol’ days! :-)
July 20th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
ringo pertaining to feb 14 u r an idiot!!!!
I have heard of the myth but I didn’t know it wasn’t true. When I was a kid we used to go to the gas station and get a free sucker with our wrapper. Now my son has one and I was looking it up to see where to go and I came across this sight. This is a let down. I am going to mail my son a sucker and let him think it’s from tight wallet Tootsie Roll! I’m 41 and from MN.