Gianni's Sour Blue Raspberry Spiral Lollies

What is it?

Blue raspberry is largely an invention of the sweet counter. The colour was adopted in American confectionery to separate raspberry from the reds already used for cherry and strawberry, though there is a real species, the whitebark raspberry, with dark blue fruit. It has since become its own flavour, tasting of neither raspberry nor anything else in particular. The sour element is usually citric or malic acid dusted or blended in, and it works better frozen than warm. Cold suppresses sweetness more than it suppresses sourness, so a sour lolly reads sharper straight from the freezer than the same mix would at room temperature. Spiral moulded, five to a pack. The spiral is moulded rather than printed, which is what separates it from a flat lolly in a similar wrapper.