Sweet is the common word used in the UK and Ireland for the most common varieties of sugar confectionery. Words used in other territories include candy (US and Canada) and lollies (Australia and New Zealand).
Sugar was once the chosen medicine when vision was impaired. Sugary sweets would be ground up and blown into the patients eye.
In Britain barley sugar sweets were being made in the 17th century. They were sold in the form of twisted sticks and were thought to be helpful for getting rid of a winter cold.
Licorice root, also known as glycyrriza, is one of the oldest and most commonly used herbs in ancient medicine; its uses predating both the Babylonian and Egyptian Empires.
Pontefract in Yorkshire, England, was the first place where licorice was used to create a sweet. It was a Pontefract chemist, George Dunhill who, in the mid 18th century, came up with a new type of licorice candy by mixing juice from licorice root with flour and sugar.
The appropriately named Oldest Sweet Shop (originally called “The Old Sweet Shop”) is the oldest candy store in the world. The shop was founded in 1827 in the town of Pateley Bridge in England.
The first appearance of a jellybean in an advertisement was in 1861. A William Schrafft of Boston promoted the sending of jellybeans to soldiers in the Union Army.
The jellybean center is a descendant of the Mid-Eastern sweet, Turkish Delight, which dates back to Biblical times. The shell coating is an offspring of a process called panning, first invented in 17th century France to make Jordan Almonds.
Within a year jellybeans were earning a place amongst the many glass jars of "penny candy" in general stores where they were sold by weight and taken home in paper bags.
In Britain the first packet of multi-colored Liquorice Allsorts was created by accident in 1899 when a salesman knocked over his tray of samples, scattering candy all over the counter. The customer liked the look of the different candy all mixed up and immediately placed an order.
Lollipops were invented by George Smith of New Haven, Connecticut, who started making large boiled sweets mounted on sticks in 1908. He named them after a racehorse of the time, Lolly Pop. To help meet the demand a Wisconsin company built for George Smith an automatic lollipop-making machine, which produced 40 a minute. Smith trademarked the lollipop name in 1931.
Wine Gums were almost never created. The son of a London sweet shop owner, Charles Gordon Maynard wanted to create a sweet that could be savored like a fine wine, but his father, Charles Riley Maynard was a strict Methodist teetotaller who threatened to expel him from the business for introducing wine to his products. However, when Charles Riley was informed the wine label was merely a ruse, he allowed Maynard's wine gums to be introduced in 1909.
According to Cadbury's, red and black are the most popular wine gum colors today.
On a trip to Spain during the Spanish Civil War, Forrest Mars Sr. encountered soldiers who were eating pellets of chocolate that were encased in a hard sugary coating to prevent them from melting. Inspired by this idea, Mr. Mars went back to his kitchen and came up with the recipe for M&M's.
Scientists found that it actually takes about 2,500 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
Source Food for Thought by Ed Pearce
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Sugar was once the chosen medicine when vision was impaired. Sugary sweets would be ground up and blown into the patients eye.
In Britain barley sugar sweets were being made in the 17th century. They were sold in the form of twisted sticks and were thought to be helpful for getting rid of a winter cold.
Licorice root, also known as glycyrriza, is one of the oldest and most commonly used herbs in ancient medicine; its uses predating both the Babylonian and Egyptian Empires.
Pontefract in Yorkshire, England, was the first place where licorice was used to create a sweet. It was a Pontefract chemist, George Dunhill who, in the mid 18th century, came up with a new type of licorice candy by mixing juice from licorice root with flour and sugar.
The appropriately named Oldest Sweet Shop (originally called “The Old Sweet Shop”) is the oldest candy store in the world. The shop was founded in 1827 in the town of Pateley Bridge in England.
The first appearance of a jellybean in an advertisement was in 1861. A William Schrafft of Boston promoted the sending of jellybeans to soldiers in the Union Army.
The jellybean center is a descendant of the Mid-Eastern sweet, Turkish Delight, which dates back to Biblical times. The shell coating is an offspring of a process called panning, first invented in 17th century France to make Jordan Almonds.
Within a year jellybeans were earning a place amongst the many glass jars of "penny candy" in general stores where they were sold by weight and taken home in paper bags.
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In Britain the first packet of multi-colored Liquorice Allsorts was created by accident in 1899 when a salesman knocked over his tray of samples, scattering candy all over the counter. The customer liked the look of the different candy all mixed up and immediately placed an order.
Lollipops were invented by George Smith of New Haven, Connecticut, who started making large boiled sweets mounted on sticks in 1908. He named them after a racehorse of the time, Lolly Pop. To help meet the demand a Wisconsin company built for George Smith an automatic lollipop-making machine, which produced 40 a minute. Smith trademarked the lollipop name in 1931.
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Wine Gums were almost never created. The son of a London sweet shop owner, Charles Gordon Maynard wanted to create a sweet that could be savored like a fine wine, but his father, Charles Riley Maynard was a strict Methodist teetotaller who threatened to expel him from the business for introducing wine to his products. However, when Charles Riley was informed the wine label was merely a ruse, he allowed Maynard's wine gums to be introduced in 1909.
According to Cadbury's, red and black are the most popular wine gum colors today.
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On a trip to Spain during the Spanish Civil War, Forrest Mars Sr. encountered soldiers who were eating pellets of chocolate that were encased in a hard sugary coating to prevent them from melting. Inspired by this idea, Mr. Mars went back to his kitchen and came up with the recipe for M&M's.
Scientists found that it actually takes about 2,500 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
Source Food for Thought by Ed Pearce
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