Fun Sweet Facts♦Brentwood, Essex, has been a sweet town since the railway arrived in 1840♦Fudge was reputedly first made by accident in Baltimore in 1886♦Rhubarb and custard sweets have been made in the same Yorkshire factory since 1929♦The first jelly bean is thought to have been made in Boston in the 1860s♦Fudge sets when sugar crystals form between 110 and 116 degrees Celsius, chemistry♦Sugared almonds at weddings represent five wishes: health, wealth, happiness, fertility, long life♦The largest sweet jar ever filled held over 1.6 million sweets and weighed half a ton♦Flying saucers were invented in Belgium in the 1950s using rice paper♦Brentwood, Essex, has been a sweet town since the railway arrived in 1840♦Fudge was reputedly first made by accident in Baltimore in 1886♦Rhubarb and custard sweets have been made in the same Yorkshire factory since 1929♦The first jelly bean is thought to have been made in Boston in the 1860s♦Fudge sets when sugar crystals form between 110 and 116 degrees Celsius, chemistry♦Sugared almonds at weddings represent five wishes: health, wealth, happiness, fertility, long life♦The largest sweet jar ever filled held over 1.6 million sweets and weighed half a ton♦Flying saucers were invented in Belgium in the 1950s using rice paper
