Fun Sweet Facts♦A jar of pick & mix from Vivid Delights weighs almost the same as a hardback book♦Allsorts were invented in 1899 when a salesman accidentally dropped his sample tray♦The word "sweet" came from the Old English "swete", meaning pleasant to taste♦Brentwood, Essex, has been a sweet town since the railway arrived in 1840♦Fudge was reputedly first made by accident in Baltimore in 1886♦Flying saucers were invented in Belgium in the 1950s using rice paper♦Pink jazzies were originally an Edwardian sweet sold by chemists♦Pear drops get their flavour from amyl acetate, the same compound found in real pears♦A jar of pick & mix from Vivid Delights weighs almost the same as a hardback book♦Allsorts were invented in 1899 when a salesman accidentally dropped his sample tray♦The word "sweet" came from the Old English "swete", meaning pleasant to taste♦Brentwood, Essex, has been a sweet town since the railway arrived in 1840♦Fudge was reputedly first made by accident in Baltimore in 1886♦Flying saucers were invented in Belgium in the 1950s using rice paper♦Pink jazzies were originally an Edwardian sweet sold by chemists♦Pear drops get their flavour from amyl acetate, the same compound found in real pears
