10 facts about sweets

Today we decided to please our readers with a sweet tooth and tell you about sweets. After all, there are many types, forms, names of these sweets. And tastes that we can't even imagine. We have collected for you the most interesting facts about sweets that we could find.

1. The very first candies appeared in Egypt. Since sugar was not yet known at that time, dates and honey were used instead. In the East, sweets were made from almonds and figs, and in ancient Rome, nuts and poppy seeds were cooked with honey and covered with sesame seeds. We also had something like sweets: in Ancient Russia they were made from maple syrup, molasses and honey.

2. The most unfairly accused candies are chocolate. In Europe, in the XVI century, during the craze for chocolate, magical and medicinal properties were attributed to it. Naturally, expectations were not met and then he was considered the source of literally all the troubles. One young lady wrote to a friend:"I advise you not to eat chocolate anymore. My friend ate it during pregnancy and gave birth to a completely black baby."

3. The most romantic candies are with strawberry filling, according to German psychologists. By the way, determined people prefer cherry filling, shy people prefer nut filling, and creative people prefer coconut filling.

4. At the beginning of the XIX century, even the richest and noblest ladies, being at dinner parties, quietly hid sweets in their reticules. Such obscene behavior was explained simply: there were no confectionery factories in Russia, and each pastry chef prepared sweets for each dinner party according to his own recipe, which was kept in the strictest secrecy

5. The most famous candies are pralines. They were invented in 1663. The chef prepared them specially for the French ambassador in Germany, and the pralines still hold the sales record in Germany and Switzerland.

6. Master Food Company has produced the largest box of chocolates for the world cooking show. The box with a width of 1.5 and a length of 2.5 meters included 800 kg of chocolates!

7. The biggest candy is a bear nicknamed Hagi-Boy with a height of 1.68 meters and a weight of 633 kilograms. It was made by Gummi Bear Factory confectioners. To cast the bear, a special mold weighing 4 tons was needed. The fruit mass poured into the mold dried for about two weeks, after which it was taken out and polished to a shine.

8. The most cosmic candy — Chupa-Chups. In 1995, Russian cosmonauts at the Mir station asked to send them candy from Earth. At the MCC, it was decided that the safest candies in zero gravity would be Chupa-Chups. Astronauts with chupa-chups were filmed, and the commercial brought the company Chupa Chups fame as the only candy in the world, popular not only on Earth, but also in space.

9. As for the most unusual candies in the world, these are Finnish candies. Finns make them sour (without a sweet taste), salty (with beer) and even with a taste similar to oil!

10. The most Soviet candy is the famous Bird's Milk set. Initially, it was a cake, and it was prepared at the company ROT FRONT. The secret of the manufacture was agar-agar — jelly, which is extracted from seaweed. By the way, it is also used for finishing fabrics.