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♦A traditional Pontefract liquorice cake was once worth more than its weight in silver♦The British eat about 7.5kg of sweets per person per year, more than half of Europe♦Fudge was reputedly first made by accident in Baltimore in 1886♦Brentwood, Essex, has been a sweet town since the railway arrived in 1840♦Sherbet originally came from the Arabic word "sharab", meaning a chilled drink♦Rhubarb and custard sweets have been made in the same Yorkshire factory since 1929♦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♦A traditional Pontefract liquorice cake was once worth more than its weight in silver♦The British eat about 7.5kg of sweets per person per year, more than half of Europe♦Fudge was reputedly first made by accident in Baltimore in 1886♦Brentwood, Essex, has been a sweet town since the railway arrived in 1840♦Sherbet originally came from the Arabic word "sharab", meaning a chilled drink♦Rhubarb and custard sweets have been made in the same Yorkshire factory since 1929
