Candy vs. Lollies — What's the Difference?

Often consumed as a treat or used to celebrate holidays and special occasions.

In the U.S., specifically means sweets on a stick, such as lollipops.

Can be homemade or commercially produced, available in a wide range of flavors.

Refers to lollipops or all candies in Australasia, typically sweet and flavored.

A sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits, nuts, or chocolate.

Lollies are often associated with children's parties and celebratory events.

Packaging and marketing of candy are designed to appeal to both children and elders.

In Australia and New Zealand, encompasses a wide range of candies including chocolates, gummies, and hard candies.

Candy can be classified into various types, such as hard candy, gummies, and chocolate bars.

Marketing of lollies in Australasia targets a broad audience, similar to candies in the U.S.

Candy, also called sweets (British English) or lollies (Australian English, New Zealand English), is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, called sugar confectionery, encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy.

A piece of candy, especially hard candy.

A rich sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits or nuts.

A lollipop.

A piece of such a confection.

(Slang) An illicit drug, especially one, such as cocaine, that has a sugary appearance or a drug in pill form, such as MDMA.

To cook, preserve, saturate, or coat with sugar or syrup

Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.

A piece of confectionery of this kind.

Crack cocaine.

(uncountable) An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.

(obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.

(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.

(intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.

To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.

To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Any sweet, more or less solid article of confectionery, especially those prepared in small bite-sized pieces or small bars, having a wide variety of shapes, consistencies, and flavors, and manufactured in a variety of ways. It is often flavored or colored, or covered with chocolate, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.; it is often made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. Other types may consist primarily of chocolate or a sweetened gelatin. The term may be applied to a single piece of such confection or to the substance of which it is composed.

Cocaine.

A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

Yes, in Australia and New Zealand, gummy candies are included under lollies.

Chocolates are considered candy in the U.S. and can be classified as lollies in Australia and New Zealand.

No, candy is enjoyed by people of all ages, though it is often marketed heavily towards children.

Examples include chocolate bars, gummy bears, and hard candies like peppermints.

The ingredients can vary, but both can include sugar, fruit flavors, and chocolate among others.

Candy is a general term for sweet treats in the U.S., while lollies refer to sweets on a stick in the U.S. but all candies in Australia and New Zealand.

Popular types include jelly beans, licorice, and chocolate freckles.

In Australia, lollies, like candies in the U.S., are packaged to appeal to a broad audience with colorful designs.

Celebrations and holidays significantly boost the consumption of both, with specific treats associated with certain events.

Yes, holidays like Halloween and Easter are particularly associated with candy consumption.

Yes, lollies, like candies, can be homemade, especially varieties like chocolate lollies or simple hard candies.

Lollipops are considered lollies due to their specific form factor of being sweets on a stick.

Cultural perceptions vary, with lollies in Australasia encompassing what Americans consider candy, reflecting broader definitions.

Nutritionally, both are high in sugar, though the specific content can vary based on ingredients like chocolate or fruit.

Hard candy is defined by its solid, crystallized sugar base without fillers, differing from chocolates or gummies.