Hargreaves says he wasn’t trying to be scientific about it. All the bottles were different sizes to start with. Instead each lollipop is based on a single serving. “This is what you get at the gas station or the convenience store for one person.

“At first it surprised me,” he said. “There was way more sugar in there than I thought. Pretty much all of the lollipop moulds I made overflowed. Mountain Dew was the punchiest at 77g (2.7oz) of sugar and it made this enormous amount of liquid at the end. You look at this and it is just the most unappetising gunk.

“The other shocking thing was if you took the lollipops and put them into contact with water they became the drinks again”, he adds.

Hargreaves says he isn’t much of a soda drinker, having given up in his teens, but he sampled a couple of them and they tasted like a super sweet version of the drink.

“Coke was a really weird one because the rest of them were typically sugary lollies but the Coke one is almost volcanic and lava-y, and has this weird texture to it. I had to have three goes at doing it because I over-cooked the first two and they became this big blister of a bubble. It was so gross.”

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