The Candy Alphabet Game! 🍭 🍭 🍭

Nat09

Gummy bear

It’s a gelatin- base candy that originated from Germany in 1922.

Radiant123

Haribo gummy candies. They're one of the best. Haribo makes over 1,000 products, including Goldbears, invented in 1922 by Hans Riegel Sr. The annual production of Goldbears can wrap around the Earth 10 times! There's also candies like Happy-Cola and Berries made by Haribo. I created this to help you learn more about Haribo.

H is also for Happy-Cola!

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Ice-Breakers

ℹ️ Ice Breakers is a brand of mints & chewing gum that is owned by Hershey. Ice Breakers was launched by Nabisco in order to compete with similar mint brands. Hershey purchased Ice Breakers from Nabisco in 2000 for $135 million. 😱

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Jolly Rancher is an American brand of sweet hard candy, gum, fruit chews, jelly beans, lollipops, gelatin desserts, gum and sodas.

Anahita_2005

Hi! @Radiant123 Nice thread!

Kasugai is a well-known Japanese candy and snack manufacturer founded in 1928. They are especially famous for their delectable Kasugai gummy candies in lychee, peach, and many other different flavors.

WonderlandCentury789

@Radiant123 delicious game!

🍭L is for Lollipop 🍭

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Above: Small, Simple Lollipops

Introduction

A lollipop is a type of sugar candy usually consisting of hard candy mounted on a stick. Different informal terms are used in different places, including lolly, sucker, sticky-pop, etc. Lollipops are available in many flavors and shapes.

Types of Lollipops

Lollipops are available in a number of colors and flavors, particularly fruit flavors. With numerous companies producing lollipops, the candy now comes in dozens of flavors and many different shapes. They range from small ones which can be bought by the hundred and are often given away for free at banks, barbershops, and other locations, to very large ones made out of candy canes twisted into a circle.

Most lollipops are eaten at room temperature, but "ice lollipops" (aka "ice lollies" or "popsicles") are frozen water-based lollipops.

Some lollipops contain fillings, such as bubble gum or soft candy. Some novelty lollipops have more unusual items, such as mealworm larvae, embedded in the candy. Other novelty lollipops have non-edible centers, such a flashing light, embedded within the candy.

Lollipops can also be used for medicine. Such candies are of different kinds.

Ingredients

The main ingredient in a standard lollipop is sugar. Sugars are fully hydrated carbon chains meaning that there is a water molecule attached to each carbon. Sugars come in two forms: straight-chain and ring form. When sugars are in straight-chain form, aldehyde and ketone groups are open which leaves them very susceptible to reaction. In this state, sugars are unstable. In ring form, sugars are stable and therefore exist in this form in most foods, including lollipops.

The second most important ingredient in lollipop production is water. Even though at the end of the lollipop making process, the moisture content falls to less than 2%, the starting process involves water. All other ingredients used in the process of lollipop production are optional. The use of inhibitors is dependent on the type of sugar used. The amount of inhibitor in the lollipop is usually small in comparison to the amount of sugar used. On top of that, additional flavors, colorings, and inclusions (like bubble gum or a tootsie roll) can be added to the final product, but are not a part of the main structure of a simple lollipop.

For instructions on how to make green swirl lollipops, see here.

History

The idea of an edible candy on a stick is fairly simple, and it is probable that the lollipop has been invented and reinvented numerous times. The first confectioneries that closely resemble what we call lollipops date to the Middle Ages, when the nobility would often eat boiled sugar with the aid of sticks or handles.

The term "lollipop" was recorded by English lexicographer Francis Grose in 1796. The term may have derived from the term "lolly" (tongue) and "pop" (slap). The first references to the lollipop in its modern context date to the 1920s.

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