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A gobstopper, also known as a jawbreaker in Canada and the United States, is a type of boiled sweet.It is usually round, and usually ranges from 1 to 3 cm (0.4 to 1.2 in) across; though gobstoppers billed as having a diameter as large as 3.25 in (83 mm) have been marketed.
Hanabiramochi is a Japanese sweet usually eaten at the beginning of the year. Kuzumochi are mochi cakes made of kuzuko . Manjū is a popular traditional Japanese confection; most have an outside made from flour , rice powder and buckwheat and a filling of red bean paste, made from boiled azuki beans and sugar.
Montenier held a number of patents.Arguably, his most notable patent is US patent no. 2,230,084, [2] a January 28, 1941, patent for "Astringent preparation". This patent dealt with solving the problem of the excessive acidity of aluminum chloride (then, as now, the best-working antiperspirant known to chemistry), by adding a soluble nitrile or a similar compound.
A store in Illinois, United States. A confectionery store or confectionery shop (more commonly referred to as a sweet shop in the United Kingdom, a candy shop or candy store in North America, or a lolly shop [1] in Australia and New Zealand) is a store that sell confectionery, whose intended targeted marketing audiences are children and adolescents.
McCowan's originally began life as an aerated water business run by Andrew McCowan.His wife attempted to make some extra money on the side by selling toffee from the window of their house in Stenhousemuir.
Walter W. Reid Jr. founded the Charms Candy Company in 1912. The company was originally called Tropical Charms, a reference to the individually wrapped square-shaped hard candies, which were one of the first of their kind to be individually wrapped in cellophane. [1]
Although there was a week-long strike in September 1890, it involved only about a third of the 600 staff, and was prompted by the Gas Stokers’ union. [9] Generally management-staff relationships were good, and the company's own union was established in the early 1890s as “Barratt & Co.’s and Employees Aid & Protective Union.”
A Victory V sweet, "Forged For Strength" Victory V is a British brand of liquorice-flavoured lozenges. [1] Originally manufactured in Nelson, Lancashire, they were devised by Thomas Fryer and Edward Smith MD in 1864 [1] and were initially made by hand to ensure that each sweet contained the correct amount of therapeutic ingredients: ether, liquorice and chloroform.