page_title: Rock (confectionery)
section_title: Regional varieties
hierarchical_section_title: Rock (confectionery) / Other forms of rock / Regional varieties
caption_attribution_description: English: Slices of rock made in Løkken
context_page_description: Rock is a type of hard stick-shaped boiled sugar confectionery most usually flavoured with peppermint or spearmint. It is commonly sold at tourist resorts in the United Kingdom and Ireland; in Gibraltar; in Denmark in towns such as Løkken and Ebeltoft; and in Sydney and Tasmania, Australia.
  It usually takes the form of a cylindrical stick, normally 1–2.5 cm in diameter and 20–25 cm long. Blackpool rock is usually at least 2.5 cm in diameter, and can be as thick as 17 cm across and up to 2 m long when made for special retail displays. These cylinders usually have a pattern embedded throughout the length, which is often the name of the resort where the rock is sold, so that the name can be read on both ends of the stick and remains legible even after pieces are bitten off. Rock is also manufactured as a promotional item, for example with a company name running through it.
  It is sometimes found in the form of individual sweets, with writing or a pattern in the centre; these are, in effect, slices of rock.
context_section_description: Edinburgh rock is another confection based on sugar and cream of tartar, made into sticks. It is friable and flavoured, for example, with ginger or lemon.
  Another distinctively Scottish form of rock is star rock (also sometimes known as starry rock), or "starrie", which is made in Kirriemuir. It is sold in small bundles of pencil-sized sticks, and is less brittle than seaside rock.
  A Japanese version of this candy is called Kintaro Ame().
  A Dutch type of confection closely resembling rock is the socalled 'zuurstok' (sour stick). Like rock with seaside resorts, the zuurstok is specifically associated with fairgrounds. Its composition is roughly the same as Edinburgh rock but it comes in a different range of flavours, basically with cream of tartar (thus rendering it more or less sour), but also aromatised with cherry, cinnamon or licorice for example.
caption: Slices of rock made in Løkken with various logos
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