13 Year Old Cures Hiccup with Special Lollipops

A 13-year-old US schoolgirl has set up her own company after coming up with what she claims is a cure for hiccups. Mallory Kievman, from Manchester, Connecticut, says she got the idea after trying to tame a stubborn bout of hiccups two years ago. She tried every remedy she could think of, including drinking saltwater, sipping water out of an upside-down cup, eating spoonfuls of sugar, and slurping pickle juice. Miss Kievman eventually combined her three favorite cures - lollipops, apple cider vinegar and sugar - into a single cure which she says does the trick.

"I'm still tweaking the taste," she says. "It triggers a set of nerves in your throat and mouth that are responsible for the hiccup reflex arc.

"It basically over-stimulates those nerves and cancels out the message to hiccup."

Miss Kievman is now the CEO and founder of her own company, Hiccupops, which is preparing to launch the lollipop commercially. She has applied for a patent and says she has already lined up financial backers and a team of business consultants.

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Evil Hot Gummi Bears

Once upon a time, there were three bears – a big bear, a medium sized bear and tiny weeny bear. Being so small, the tiny weeny bear was forever being left behind and ignored. His cousins the bigger bears got all the attention with their bright colours and huge size. The little bear would often find himself left behind. He was so small, he thought, he was barely a bear at all.

But the tiny weeny bear was a resourceful sort. Not to mention a bit of a dark horse. Which is why, one day, he left his massive cousins without saying goodbye and climbed down into hell. Which is harder than it sounds. Once there he met Beelzibear, the Antipooh, and over a bottle of tequila and a bowl of chilli, reached something of an agreement.

Some time later, the tiny weeny bear returned. But there was something different about him. He was still the same size, still the same shape, but he was packed with more fire than a honey pot full of habaneros. No longer did he mind being the smallest bear at the party – he had the power to make people gasp, cry, sweat and turn a hilarious shade of purple. Which is more than his chubby cousins could do. The first Evil Hot Gummi Bear was born

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Sriracha Lollipops

We were the kind of kids who would reach for the mystery flavor in a bag of Dum Dums. We wanted some excitement and danger (pineapple) in the lollipop game since we were sweet-toothed youngins. Now that we’re a bit older and marginally more mature, we’ve upped that intensity by purchasing these Sriracha Lollipops. Everyone’s favorite Thai condiment gets the sugar pop treatment from Lollyphile and our slightly singed mouths couldn’t be happier.

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Show your love this Valentine's with handcrafted chocolates

This Valentine’s Day, La Maison du Chocolat is thinking outside the heart-shaped box with four new chocolate confections handcrafted with exotic fruits, spices, and cocoa beans from around the world.

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