Are Tootsie Rolls chocolate candies, or caramels?

Tootsie Rolls are a chocolatey chew candy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tootsie_Rolls

No Chocolate. No Caramel -- The ingredients of the traditional Tootsie Roll are sugar, corn syrup, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, condensed skim milk, cocoa, whey, soy lecithin, and artificial and condensed flavors.

If it were processed to the point of Chocolate it would include Milk Chocolate or the like as an ingredient. "To make 1 kg (2.2 pounds) of chocolate, about 300 to 600 beans are processed, depending on the desired cocoa content." Chocolaty is a LOOSE way of describing them. Acceptable but misleading.

Tootsie Rolls are made of sugar, corn syrup, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, condensed skim milk, cocoa, whey, soya lecithin, artificial and natural flavors.

They are not legally chocolate since, in most of the world, chocolate must contain cocoa butter. They are basically a sort of pulled taffy made with cocoa powder and milk products.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-Tootsie-Rolls-made-of-Are-they-chocolate