Chupa Chups

Chupa chups have been around for quite some time! These lollipops come in a very wide variety from their classic flavors to filled lollipops and ice cream flavors! With their brightly colored fun wrapping and diverse flavors, no wonder they have been around for 50+ years!

Chupa chups came out in 1958 and were created by a man named Enric Bernat. During the 50's candies of different colors, shapes, and sizes were widely popular but they were all missing something- a stick. Kids would often take the candy out of their mouth to observe the changing colors , show their friends, or save for later in their pockets. You can imagine the mess it would make. Enric came up with the idea of putting a stick in his Chupa Chups to keep the mess to a minimal and make it more appealing to consumers.

Enric didn't come up with the quirky name Chupa chups. Originally he wanted the candy to be football shaped and name it "GOL" because of the shape and when you put it in your mouth it would be like scoring a goal. When he didn't like the name he hired an advertising team to come up with the name and create a jingle to go with it.

The Chupa Chups logo went through a couple changes before Salvador Dali had a creative revelation in 1988 and changed the logo to the bright a cheery daisy shape it is today. In 2008 Chupa Chups celebrated their 50th anniversary and held special events throughout the year in different countries world wide like Germany, France, the Philippines and finished with an MTV concert in Barcelona.

-SugarPop's Candy and Soda shop
248 N. Main Street
Mooresville, NC
704-799-0959

Milky Way!

There’s no one who doesn’t know Mar’s Milky Way candy bar, delicious chocolate-malt nougat topped with caramel and covered in milk chocolate! With such a great combination how could you go wrong with this candy?

The Milky Way was first created in 1923 by Frank C. Mars and was named after a popular milkshake, no the Earth’s galaxy!  In 1926 the Milky Way bar was originally sold as a two-piece bar, one with chocolate nougat and one vanilla but was separated 1936 were separated.  The common vanilla nougat Milky Way bar was branded as many different names such as “Forever Yours”, “ Milky Way Dark”, and “Milky Way Midnight”, but now it is simply just Milky Way.

In different countries the Milky Way comes in many different varieties such as Milky Way Crisp rolls in the UK, fruit flavored Milky Ways in Australia and ice cream Milky Way’s that are offered here in the U.S.!

-SugarPop's Candy and Soda shop

-SugarPop's Candy and Soda Shop

248 N Main St Mooresville, NC 28115

(704) 746-3166 

Goo Goo Cluster!

Creamy milk chocolate, roasted peanuts, gooey caramel and marshmallow nougat, a true “Southern Treat” as the company puts it. The Goo Goo cluster revolutionized candy bars as we know them, it was one of the first candies that consisted of more then one principal ingredient! This delicious candy was first produced in 1912, in Nashville, TN at Standard Candy Company in a copper kettle.  The name for the Goo Goo cluster comes from the idea that “Goo goo” is the first words a baby tries to speak, so, “It’s so good, people will ask for it from birth!”

What makes this candy interesting is not only where its ingredients combination really un heard of for one candy bar, but also its shape. Goo Goo clusters are circular in a time where square and rectangle candies were the norm. Due to their round shape Goo Goo clusters where first shown un wrapped and had to be displayed under a glass dome in stores, soon after that women in the factory would hand wrap each Goo Goo cluster until eventually machinery took over. At Standard Candy in Nashville today they can produce 20,000 Goo Goo clusters in an hour!

-SugarPop's Candy and Soda Shop

248 N Main St Mooresville, NC 28115

(704) 746-3166 

M&M's!

 "Melts in your mouth, not in your hand."

-M&M slogan

Who doesn’t love a bag of M&M’s? M&M’s can be found around the world in wonderful varieties such as peanut, pretzel, PB&J, and dark chocolate! This classic candy originated in the United States in 1941. In the 1930’s, during the Spanish Civil War, Forest Mars Sr. came up with the idea of M&M’s when he saw soldiers eating chocolate with tempered hard shells so the chocolate would not melt.  Production began in 1941, the two “m”s on the candy represent Forest Mars Sr. and Bruce Murrie, the son of the president of Hershey’s Chocolate. It wasn’t until the 1950’s that the beloved candy every one knows and loves came to be like the M&M’s we see today, peanut M&M’s were only tan and the colors red, yellow and green were added to the mix. Today 340 million M&M’s are produced daily to eat (or for decoration here at SugarPop’s)!

Take a look at how M&M's are made! 

Here at SugarPop's M&M's can make a delicious treat and beautiful decoration for any event!  

-SugarPop's Candy and Soda Shop 

248 North Main Street 

Mooresville, NC 28115 

(704) 799-0959

Astro Pop!

We get a lot of customers down here at SugarPop’s who are overjoyed when they see our display of Astro Pops sitting up on the shelf. The conical shape and the bright yellow, green and red colors bring back nostalgic memories from their youth.

Modeled after a three-stage rocket and created by two rocket scientist, Astro Pops hit the shelves around 1963. At this time the Space Race was in full force and many children dreamed going into space while enjoying the delicious flavor of cherry, passionfruit and pineapple! Astro Pop is most recognizable by its original conical lollipop shape; the cone wrapper becomes the mold for the hot candy as it is poured in layer by layer and then sealed off with a layer of wax.  Astro pop was around until 2004 when it was discontinued but thankfully, to the out of this world lollipop’s fans, was picked back up 2010!

-SugarPop's

248 North Main Street 
Mooresville, NC 28115 

(704) 799-0959