Fun Sweet Facts♦Sugared almonds at weddings represent five wishes: health, wealth, happiness, fertility, long life♦Flying saucers were invented in Belgium in the 1950s using rice paper♦The original cola bottle sweet was launched in 1976, ten years after the Coke bottle changed shape♦Fudge was reputedly first made by accident in Baltimore in 1886♦Fudge sets when sugar crystals form between 110 and 116 degrees Celsius, chemistry♦The largest sweet jar ever filled held over 1.6 million sweets and weighed half a ton♦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♦Sugared almonds at weddings represent five wishes: health, wealth, happiness, fertility, long life♦Flying saucers were invented in Belgium in the 1950s using rice paper♦The original cola bottle sweet was launched in 1976, ten years after the Coke bottle changed shape♦Fudge was reputedly first made by accident in Baltimore in 1886♦Fudge sets when sugar crystals form between 110 and 116 degrees Celsius, chemistry♦The largest sweet jar ever filled held over 1.6 million sweets and weighed half a ton♦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
