9 ridiculous facts about candy you didn’t know yet

Thought you knew everything about cotton candy, liquorice and chewing gum? Think again—these candy facts are definitely new to you.

• Candy as a cause of weight gain? Not really: only two percent of the calories Americans eat come from candy. Germans eat twice as much candy as Americans.
• Thirty grams of milk chocolate contains just as much caffeine as a cup of decaf coffee.
• Chew your bubble gum until the sugar is gone. Then you can blow bigger bubbles. The sugar gives the chewing gum a chewier texture.
• The first Snickers hit supermarkets in 1930. The bar was named after the Mars family’s favorite horse.
• Every day, 200 million Skittles roll off the production line.
• Cotton candy was invented in 1897 by William Morrison. His profession? Dentist.
• During the Spanish Civil War, soldiers ate hard pieces of chocolate coated in sugar so they wouldn’t melt on the way. Good idea, thought candy maker Mars, and he started making M&M’s.
• PEZ, those little candies you can press out of a fun dispenser, is named after the German word for peppermint: pfefferminz.
• English liquorice isn’t called English liquorice in England, but Liquorice Allsorts.

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Source: Tropical Foods, Fill Your Plate