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Chocolate & Jelly Eyeballs for Halloween

Eyeball-shaped sweets are a Halloween staple built on a much older tradition of turning treats into something a bit gruesome for the occasion. Here's the Swizzels, Kingsway and solid chocolate...

Watermelon Sweets: Every Brand We Stock

Watermelon flavouring in sweets tastes nothing like real watermelon — and that's by design. Here's why the flavour is built the way it is, plus six well-stocked watermelon sweets spanning...

Gummy Sharks & Jelly Snakes: Our Novelty Shapes...

Gummy sharks and jelly snakes are two of the most enduring novelty shapes on a pick 'n' mix counter. Here's how gelatine-set sweets became a category of their own, and...

Sugared Almonds: The Wedding Sweet Explained

Sugared almonds are one of the oldest sweets still made today, with a wedding tradition dating back to ancient Rome. Here's the history behind the five-almond favour, and the bulk...

Aniseed Humbugs, Pips and Barley Sugar Explained

Two classic British boiled sweets with genuinely old roots — aniseed sweets that started life as a post-dinner digestive, and barley sugar that began as a French convent recipe. Here's...

Chocolate-Covered Pretzels: The Sweet Side of a...

Worth being upfront: we don't stock a savoury pretzel snack on its own. What we carry is the chocolate-covered kind — Yorkie and Hershey's dipped pretzels — where the pretzel...