Funny Money Sweets: The Edible Banknotes Explained

"Funny Money sweets" gets confused with chocolate coins fairly often, but it's actually a different, older-school novelty altogether — worth clearing up what it really is before assuming it's just seasonal chocolate money.

What Funny Money actually is

Funny Money is an edible rice-paper novelty sweet, printed with colourful banknote designs and fruit flavoured, sold in packs containing several printed sheets. It's part of the same broad family as other printable edible-paper sweets — thin, crisp, and flavoured rather than chewy — and the appeal is largely the novelty of "eating money" rather than any particular flavour.

Not to be confused with chocolate coins

It's easy to assume Funny Money means chocolate coins or chocolate money — the foil-wrapped chocolate discs traditionally sold around Christmas and used to fill stockings or decorate a tree. Those are a genuinely different product: solid chocolate shaped and foiled to look like coins, rather than a flat printed rice-paper sheet. We looked for a documented link between Funny Money and a specific chocolate-coin manufacturer and couldn't confirm one, so we're not attributing it to any particular brand here.

Do we stock it?

No, not currently. It isn't part of our novelty or retro range at the moment.

Other retro novelty sweets we do stock

If it's old-school penny-sweet-era novelty you're after rather than this specific product, our Retro Sweets and Novelty Sweets collections cover a wide range of similar-era classics.

Frequently asked questions

What is Funny Money?

An edible rice-paper sweet printed with banknote designs and fruit flavoured, sold as multiple sheets per pack.

Is Funny Money the same as chocolate coins?

No — chocolate coins are solid foil-wrapped chocolate; Funny Money is a flat, printed rice-paper sweet.

Does Supreme Sweets stock Funny Money?

No, not currently.

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