Fun Sweet Facts♦Fizzy sweets get their pop from citric acid mixed with bicarbonate of soda♦Pink jazzies were originally an Edwardian sweet sold by chemists♦Kola Kubes are flavoured with the kola nut, the same plant that originally flavoured cola♦A 970ml Victorian jar holds roughly 500 grams of pick & mix, give or take♦The word "sweet" came from the Old English "swete", meaning pleasant to taste♦Pear drops get their flavour from amyl acetate, the same compound found in real pears♦Brentwood, Essex, has been a sweet town since the railway arrived in 1840♦Fudge sets when sugar crystals form between 110 and 116 degrees Celsius, chemistry♦Fizzy sweets get their pop from citric acid mixed with bicarbonate of soda♦Pink jazzies were originally an Edwardian sweet sold by chemists♦Kola Kubes are flavoured with the kola nut, the same plant that originally flavoured cola♦A 970ml Victorian jar holds roughly 500 grams of pick & mix, give or take♦The word "sweet" came from the Old English "swete", meaning pleasant to taste♦Pear drops get their flavour from amyl acetate, the same compound found in real pears♦Brentwood, Essex, has been a sweet town since the railway arrived in 1840♦Fudge sets when sugar crystals form between 110 and 116 degrees Celsius, chemistry
