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Sweets That Travel Well by Post: What to Send i...

What survives a few days in transit and what arrives as a puddle or a pile of crumbs — a practical guide to choosing and packing sweets for a care...

Best Sweets for a Long-Haul Flight: What Surviv...

Why sweets taste duller at altitude, which formats actually help with ear popping on descent, and what to pack instead of a loose share bag for a long flight.

Best Stocking Fillers for Adults: Grown-Up Swee...

Why adult stockings work better with one considered item than five small novelty sweets, and which formats and flavours actually read as grown-up.

Tunnock's: The Scottish Family Firm Behind the ...

The family bakery founded in Uddingston in 1890 that went on to invent the Caramel Wafer and the 1956 Tea Cake — and has turned down buyers ever since.

South African Sweets: Wilson's Toffees, Chappie...

The single Johannesburg company behind Wilson's Toffees, the trivia-fact bubble gum Chappies, and the sherbet-centred Fizzers — three of South Africa's best-known sweets.

Belgian Chocolate Culture: Pralines, Neuhaus an...

The 1912 invention that created the filled praline, the packaging fix a chocolatier's wife came up with three years later, and what actually backs up Belgium's chocolate reputation.