Candy Flavors

Okay, so I'm currently eating a lollipop that is bubble gum flavored.  I just grabbed the first one I saw from the candy drawer.  I am left with one glaring question...if I wanted a bubble gum flavor, couldn't I just have had some bubble gum?  I suppose if I was some kid with braces and loved the taste of bubble gum and couldn't have any that this would be quite useful.  But that's a rather narrow target market, isn't it?  Like jelly beans that are popcorn flavored.  However that's at least novel.  Bubble gum is not a unique or interesting flavor and is really a waste of a perfectly good lollipop.  Candy merely for sugar's sake is not worth eating.  Oh wait, nevermind.  Another theory shot to hell by pixie sticks.