Fun Sweet Facts♦Brentwood, Essex, has been a sweet town since the railway arrived in 1840♦Rhubarb and custard sweets have been made in the same Yorkshire factory since 1929♦Liquorice has been chewed in England since the 13th century, originally as medicine♦Pear drops get their flavour from amyl acetate, the same compound found in real pears♦Fudge was reputedly first made by accident in Baltimore in 1886♦In Victorian England, a pennyworth of sweets bought you a small jar full♦Flying saucers were invented in Belgium in the 1950s using rice paper♦The world record for the most sweets eaten in one minute is 88♦Brentwood, Essex, has been a sweet town since the railway arrived in 1840♦Rhubarb and custard sweets have been made in the same Yorkshire factory since 1929♦Liquorice has been chewed in England since the 13th century, originally as medicine♦Pear drops get their flavour from amyl acetate, the same compound found in real pears♦Fudge was reputedly first made by accident in Baltimore in 1886♦In Victorian England, a pennyworth of sweets bought you a small jar full♦Flying saucers were invented in Belgium in the 1950s using rice paper♦The world record for the most sweets eaten in one minute is 88
