"Toot Sweets" is a song/musical number from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the 1968 musical motion picture. In the film it is sung by Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes. "Toot Sweets" is also featured prominently in the multi-award winning stage musical of the same name which premiered in London at the Palladium in 2002 and on Broadway in 2005 at the newly refurbished Hilton Theatre.
The song title is a play on words, based on the late 19th century French expression "tout de suite", meaning all at once. In the context of the film and stage musical, "Toot Sweets" is about a candy cane that has holes in it, making the candy playable as an edible tin-whistle. The song was written by Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman (also known as the "Sherman Brothers").
Unfortunately for protagonist Caractacus, the "Toot Sweets" act like dog whistles, calling all the local canines into the candy factory (not unlike The Pied Piper Of Hamelin), ruining the sanitary conditions of the factory and turning love interest Truly's father against him.
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The name Toot Sweets is a corruption of the French phrase, tout de suite, meaning, "at once." [1]
In the late 1960's, Mattel sold a toy called "Toot Sweets". It was a device that molded Tootsie Rolls into whistles.
In the 1970s, candy manufacturer Peter-Paul marketed and sold a lollipop with a built-in slide whistle, called appropriately, "Whistle Pops".
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