Fun Sweet Facts♦A 970ml Victorian jar holds roughly 500 grams of pick & mix, give or take♦Kola Kubes are flavoured with the kola nut, the same plant that originally flavoured cola♦Hard-boiled sweets are 80% sugar, 19% glucose syrup, and 1% magic♦Fudge sets when sugar crystals form between 110 and 116 degrees Celsius, chemistry♦Rhubarb and custard sweets have been made in the same Yorkshire factory since 1929♦Sweet jars in glass became popular in Victorian sweet shops in the 1840s♦Pink jazzies were originally an Edwardian sweet sold by chemists♦A traditional Pontefract liquorice cake was once worth more than its weight in silver♦A 970ml Victorian jar holds roughly 500 grams of pick & mix, give or take♦Kola Kubes are flavoured with the kola nut, the same plant that originally flavoured cola♦Hard-boiled sweets are 80% sugar, 19% glucose syrup, and 1% magic♦Fudge sets when sugar crystals form between 110 and 116 degrees Celsius, chemistry♦Rhubarb and custard sweets have been made in the same Yorkshire factory since 1929♦Sweet jars in glass became popular in Victorian sweet shops in the 1840s♦Pink jazzies were originally an Edwardian sweet sold by chemists♦A traditional Pontefract liquorice cake was once worth more than its weight in silver
