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Spangles: Whatever Happened to the Opal-Wrapped...
Spangles belong to a small club of discontinued British sweets that still get brought up in conversation decades after they disappeared — helped, in part, by one genuinely clever piece...
Spangles: Whatever Happened to the Opal-Wrapped...
Spangles belong to a small club of discontinued British sweets that still get brought up in conversation decades after they disappeared — helped, in part, by one genuinely clever piece...
Jamboree Bags: The Penny Sweet Bag With a Myste...
Before Kinder Surprise eggs gave children a reason to want a toy more than the chocolate around it, British sweet shops had already worked out the same trick with a...
Jamboree Bags: The Penny Sweet Bag With a Myste...
Before Kinder Surprise eggs gave children a reason to want a toy more than the chocolate around it, British sweet shops had already worked out the same trick with a...
The History of Dolly Mixture
Dolly mixture is one of those sweets everyone recognises on sight - tiny fondant shapes and jellies in a jumble of colours - yet its actual origin is surprisingly undocumented...
The History of Dolly Mixture
Dolly mixture is one of those sweets everyone recognises on sight - tiny fondant shapes and jellies in a jumble of colours - yet its actual origin is surprisingly undocumented...
Flumps: The Twisted Marshmallow Sweet Explained
Flumps are one of those sweets that look like they should have a complicated backstory and don't — it's just a twisted length of marshmallow in four colours, and that's...
Flumps: The Twisted Marshmallow Sweet Explained
Flumps are one of those sweets that look like they should have a complicated backstory and don't — it's just a twisted length of marshmallow in four colours, and that's...
Chewits: The Dinosaur-Branded Chew Bar Explained
Chewits has had one of the more well-travelled corporate histories of any British sweet still on shelves — three company names and at least one giant cartoon dinosaur before it...
Chewits: The Dinosaur-Branded Chew Bar Explained
Chewits has had one of the more well-travelled corporate histories of any British sweet still on shelves — three company names and at least one giant cartoon dinosaur before it...
The History of the Drumstick Lolly
Before Squashies, before the chocolate bar version, there was just the lolly - a two-flavour chew on a stick that Swizzels says was the only one of its kind when...
The History of the Drumstick Lolly
Before Squashies, before the chocolate bar version, there was just the lolly - a two-flavour chew on a stick that Swizzels says was the only one of its kind when...