Fun Sweet Facts♦Toffee gets its name from "tafia", an old Caribbean word for sugarcane spirit♦Fudge sets when sugar crystals form between 110 and 116 degrees Celsius, chemistry♦A traditional Pontefract liquorice cake was once worth more than its weight in silver♦The longest sweet shop in the world ran for over a mile in Llandudno, Wales♦Sweet jars in glass became popular in Victorian sweet shops in the 1840s♦Strawberry bonbons rarely contain real strawberry, but the smell molecule is identical♦Pear drops get their flavour from amyl acetate, the same compound found in real pears♦The largest sweet jar ever filled held over 1.6 million sweets and weighed half a ton♦Toffee gets its name from "tafia", an old Caribbean word for sugarcane spirit♦Fudge sets when sugar crystals form between 110 and 116 degrees Celsius, chemistry♦A traditional Pontefract liquorice cake was once worth more than its weight in silver♦The longest sweet shop in the world ran for over a mile in Llandudno, Wales♦Sweet jars in glass became popular in Victorian sweet shops in the 1840s♦Strawberry bonbons rarely contain real strawberry, but the smell molecule is identical♦Pear drops get their flavour from amyl acetate, the same compound found in real pears♦The largest sweet jar ever filled held over 1.6 million sweets and weighed half a ton