Fun Sweet Facts♦Fizzy sweets get their pop from citric acid mixed with bicarbonate of soda♦Kola Kubes are flavoured with the kola nut, the same plant that originally flavoured cola♦The largest sweet jar ever filled held over 1.6 million sweets and weighed half a ton♦Allsorts were invented in 1899 when a salesman accidentally dropped his sample tray♦Sweet jars in glass became popular in Victorian sweet shops in the 1840s♦Pear drops get their flavour from amyl acetate, the same compound found in real pears♦The first jelly bean is thought to have been made in Boston in the 1860s♦In Victorian England, a pennyworth of sweets bought you a small jar full♦Fizzy sweets get their pop from citric acid mixed with bicarbonate of soda♦Kola Kubes are flavoured with the kola nut, the same plant that originally flavoured cola♦The largest sweet jar ever filled held over 1.6 million sweets and weighed half a ton♦Allsorts were invented in 1899 when a salesman accidentally dropped his sample tray♦Sweet jars in glass became popular in Victorian sweet shops in the 1840s♦Pear drops get their flavour from amyl acetate, the same compound found in real pears♦The first jelly bean is thought to have been made in Boston in the 1860s♦In Victorian England, a pennyworth of sweets bought you a small jar full
