Fun Sweet Facts♦Toffee gets its name from "tafia", an old Caribbean word for sugarcane spirit♦Sugared almonds at weddings represent five wishes: health, wealth, happiness, fertility, long life♦Fudge sets when sugar crystals form between 110 and 116 degrees Celsius, chemistry♦Cotton candy was invented in 1897 by a dentist (we are not making this up)♦Flying saucers were invented in Belgium in the 1950s using rice paper♦Fudge was reputedly first made by accident in Baltimore in 1886♦The word "sweet" came from the Old English "swete", meaning pleasant to taste♦Marshmallows were originally made from the root of the marsh-mallow plant♦Toffee gets its name from "tafia", an old Caribbean word for sugarcane spirit♦Sugared almonds at weddings represent five wishes: health, wealth, happiness, fertility, long life♦Fudge sets when sugar crystals form between 110 and 116 degrees Celsius, chemistry♦Cotton candy was invented in 1897 by a dentist (we are not making this up)♦Flying saucers were invented in Belgium in the 1950s using rice paper♦Fudge was reputedly first made by accident in Baltimore in 1886♦The word "sweet" came from the Old English "swete", meaning pleasant to taste♦Marshmallows were originally made from the root of the marsh-mallow plant
