Fun Sweet Facts♦Wedding favours have been a tradition since the 16th century, originally five sugared almonds♦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you a small jar full♦Fizzy sweets get their pop from citric acid mixed with bicarbonate of soda♦Marshmallows were originally made from the root of the marsh-mallow plant♦Cotton candy was invented in 1897 by a dentist (we are not making this up)♦The original cola bottle sweet was launched in 1976, ten years after the Coke bottle changed shape♦A traditional Pontefract liquorice cake was once worth more than its weight in silver♦The first jelly bean is thought to have been made in Boston in the 1860s♦Wedding favours have been a tradition since the 16th century, originally five sugared almonds♦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you a small jar full♦Fizzy sweets get their pop from citric acid mixed with bicarbonate of soda♦Marshmallows were originally made from the root of the marsh-mallow plant♦Cotton candy was invented in 1897 by a dentist (we are not making this up)♦The original cola bottle sweet was launched in 1976, ten years after the Coke bottle changed shape♦A traditional Pontefract liquorice cake was once worth more than its weight in silver♦The first jelly bean is thought to have been made in Boston in the 1860s
