Fun Sweet Facts♦Hard-boiled sweets are 80% sugar, 19% glucose syrup, and 1% magic♦Pear drops get their flavour from amyl acetate, the same compound found in real pears♦Wedding favours have been a tradition since the 16th century, originally five sugared almonds♦Flying saucers were invented in Belgium in the 1950s using rice paper♦The first jelly bean is thought to have been made in Boston in the 1860s♦Liquorice has been chewed in England since the 13th century, originally as medicine♦Allsorts were invented in 1899 when a salesman accidentally dropped his sample tray♦The longest sweet shop in the world ran for over a mile in Llandudno, Wales♦Hard-boiled sweets are 80% sugar, 19% glucose syrup, and 1% magic♦Pear drops get their flavour from amyl acetate, the same compound found in real pears♦Wedding favours have been a tradition since the 16th century, originally five sugared almonds♦Flying saucers were invented in Belgium in the 1950s using rice paper♦The first jelly bean is thought to have been made in Boston in the 1860s♦Liquorice has been chewed in England since the 13th century, originally as medicine♦Allsorts were invented in 1899 when a salesman accidentally dropped his sample tray♦The longest sweet shop in the world ran for over a mile in Llandudno, Wales
