People have just realised they’ve been opening lollipops wrong their entire life – and their minds are blown
WE all know how annoying and fiddly it can be to open a tasty lolipop.
Well it turns out it’s actually really easy and most of us have just been opening them to completely wrong way.
The plastic wrapper is known to be tricky to remove, but according to Jordan Howlett there’s a simple trick.
Sharing his hack on Instagram, the social media influencer said: “Naturally, growing up you would try to take of the plastic from the bottom, but sometimes it would be so tightly packaged that it would end up hurting your fingers.
“Well, these are leverage wrappers, what you’re supposed to do is grab to top and the bottom and then twist on the opposite side.”
After twisting the plastic round a couple of times it comes right off the lollipop with basically no effort.
And it’s basically every brand of lollipop the hack works on too.
Jordan said: “Even the Chupa Chups, lollipops which are known for being so tightly packaged – same thing, it’s a leverage wrapper.”
The foodie admitted he had no idea that there was a right way to to open the sweat treat, and it turns out he wasn’t the only one.
One person commented on the Instagram clip: “I sat in stunned silence for ten minutes.”
A second wrote: “It was that simple the whole time?!”
“I’ve been struggling to open lolipops for over 21 years, I really thought they were just hard to open because they were child proof,” another admitted.
But others were shocked people didn’t already know the trick, one quipped: “How did you not know this? It’s so obvious.”
Another agreed: “I figured this out when I was eight.”
“I can’t believe this many people have been struggling to open them for so long,” someone else said.