Do you LOVE candy? How much do you know about these sweet treats? Here are 10 facts for anyone with a sweet tooth!
- M&M stands for Mars and Murrie, Forrest Mars, Sr. and Bruce Murrie created the candy in 1941.
- How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? Students at Purdue University invented a licking machine that took 364 times on average.
- The Fruit Stripes zebra mascot is named Yipes.
- PEZ is named for the German word ‘pfefferminz’ which means peppermint.
- About 750,000,000 candy buttons are made every year!
- Circus peanuts inspired the Lucky Charms marshmallow.
- Jelly Belly served more than three tons of jelly beans during Ronald Reagan’s 1981 inauguration. That weighs more than a car!
- Cotton candy was invented by a dentist.
- The little white flag on a Hershey’s Kiss is called a ‘plume.’
- The Dums Dums mystery flavor is always a combination of two flavors – it’s created when their machine switches to producing a new flavor.
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