If you love fizz and lots of it, chances are you
like Lotsa Fizz. However, this great treat is a little misleading.
It has nothing to do with whether or not there's fizz. Or even the
word "Lotsa", although they could probably only have a
little bit of fizz and get away with it legally since "lotsa"
really isn't a word.
The problem I have with these treats is the packaging.
Lotsa Fizz comes individually wrapped in three different coloured
packages (sometimes these packages are connected like a big candy
snake): Orange, Red, and Purple. Conveniently, Lotsa Fizz comes
in 3 different flavours: Orange, Cherry and Grape. It doesn't take
a candy scientist to figure out which candy should go into which
package, right? If that's the case, the folks at Arcor (the company
who makes Lotsa Fizz) should be looking to recruit some new talent.
You see, Lotsa Fizz is always mixed up, so if someone hands you
a Lotsa Fizz in a purple package, you may not be getting a grape
candy.
We at Candy Critic want to know exactly what the
odds are that we'll get what we want. We want to know because grape
is the greatest flavour of Lotsa Fizz and we want to be sure we
get them all. So here comes the math, with some graph goodness.
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| These statistics are based on a handful of 30
Lotsa Fizzes. Normally in a scientific study the work would
be on display someplace important, but we ate all the Lotsa
Fizz so you'll just have take our word for it. |
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Here we have a graph showing how many of each type of candy
we got. We were very disappointed by the lack of grape.
That's not to say we shouldn't have expected it. As you
can see from the graph above, we didn't get that many purple packages.
However, we did get a lot more red packages than we did red candy.
This is the shocker: according to this graph, the chances
are less than 50% that you'll get what you expect when you pick out a
Lotsa Fizz. The good news is that none of the flavours suck.
So what does this teach us about our candy eating habits,
or even ourselves? We're not really sure. We're not statisticians by any
stretch of the imagination. We did learn how much we hate making graphs
and how silly and difficult it is to count Lotsa Fizzes without eating
them. If you have any more insight you can share based on our numbers,
let us know because all we have at this point is a lot of silly graphs
and a really fizzy sensation on our tongues.
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