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Mint humbugs. Humbugs are a traditional hard-boiled sweet available in the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, Australia, Zimbabwe and New Zealand. They are usually flavoured with peppermint [1] and striped in two different colours (often black and white).
For the sweets produced in Bradford, the confectioner was supposed to purchase powdered gypsum, but a mistake at the wholesale chemist meant arsenic was purchased instead. Three men were arrested—the chemist who sold the arsenic, his assistant and the sweet maker—but all three were acquitted after the judge decided it was all accidental ...
A hard candy (American English), or boiled sweet (British English), is a sugar candy prepared from one or more sugar-based syrups that is heated to a temperature of 160 °C (320 °F) to make candy. Among the many hard candy varieties are stick candy such as the candy cane , lollipops , rock , aniseed twists , and bêtises de Cambrai .
Humbug!", declaring Christmas to be a fraud, is commonly used in stage and screen versions and also appeared frequently in the original book. The word is also prominently used in the 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , in which the Scarecrow refers to the Wizard of Oz as a humbug, and the Wizard agrees.
Beacon Sweets and Chocolates: 69: Candy manufactured by the Beacon Sweets and Chocolates company is the top-selling candy in South Africa. They produce a wide variety of candies, including gummies, jelly candy, chocolate, and more. Colombia: Jet: 47: Jet chocolate bars are produced by Compania Nacional de Chocolates.
Hard mints are hard candies or boiled sweets flavored with mint. Examples of hard mints include starlight mints, also known as pinwheel mints, white, circular, with red or green rays emitting from the middle; candy canes ; humbugs ; and brand name mints such as Altoids and Ice Breakers .
Humbug (sweet) I. Ipso (candy) J. Jelly Babies; Jelly Drops; K. Kendal Mint Cake; Kit Kat; L. Lemon drop (candy) ... This page was last edited on 4 January 2025, at ...
Bêtises de Cambrai ([betiz də kɑ̃bʁɛ]) are a French boiled sweet made in the town of Cambrai. "Bêtise" is French for "nonsense" or "stupid mistake" and the sweets are said to have been invented by accident. Two confectioners claim to be the original inventors: Afchain and Despinoy. [1] The original flavour is mint, but many others are ...