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37 Dessert Facts Feeding Our Nonstop Sugar Highs

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37 Dessert Facts Feeding Our Nonstop Sugar Highs

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Be forewarned: Many of the facts below are gonna turn your stomach. Because it turns out that your favorite ice creams might not technically be ice creams at all, and if they are, they might have some truly disgusting ingredients hidden within them. And virtually all of the candy bars you see near the checkout counter at the grocery store are kind of disgusting too! See, we told you that you were in for a gross ol’ time…

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Starburst

You might think that the tasty Fruit chew 5 FRUITS ORIGINAL candy is safe Starbursi for vegetarians, Starburst but you'd be wrong. They contain gelatin, rendered from beef. CRACKED COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Jelly Beans

Ronald Reagan used jelly beans as a test of character. You can tell a lot about a fella's character by whether he picks out all of one color or just grabs a handful, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Jawbreakers

Jawbreakers can actually EXPLODE. A Jawbreaker once BLEW UP in a 9-year-old's face after being left out in the sun. Microwaving a Jawbreaker can also lead to an explosion. This is because the candy's layers heat at different rates and the inside gets hot faster than the outside. CRACKED COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Tootsie Pops

HOW MANY LICKS DOES IT ACTUALLYTAKE TO REACH A TOOTSIE POP'S CENTER? (It's more ? SUCKER SUPPORT SUCKER ? than three.) MOTOR ? ? ? SPONGE 2.5° RADIUS ? Engineers from Purdue and UMich each created licking machines. The average lick counts were 364 and 411. A group of junior high students went to task the old fashioned way... with their tongues. The resulting average was a meager 144 licks. GRAGKED.COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Bubble Gum

Bubble gum is typically pink because the company where it was invented only had pink coloring energy Hobba лобба Hubby BOG 80663 HIGH BOOGS Bubble gum was invented by Walter Diemer, an accountant for Fleer Chewing Gum Company. Не used pink food coloring because it was the only color the company had at the time. His product was so successful that pink became the traditional color for bubble gum. GRAGKED.COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Gum

War gum, anyone? Wrigley's chewing gum was taken off the civilian market due to wartime rationing during World War II. SHOES RATIONING BOARD WAR BOOK I WAR BOOK 2 RATIONING BOARD TIRES NE WHISLITY BOARD DOUBLEMINT CHEMICS ... - DOUBLEMINT Its entire output of products was instead directed towards the US CRACKED.COM military. — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Salt Water Taffy

خصر GRAGKED.COM www.work Salt Water Taffy سما is not, nor has it ever been, made with sea water. AM CANDY CAN SHOPPE Aa orlds AS on YES WE'RE Qusté OPEN ICE world CREAM staffy.com wpr Legend has it that an 1883 storm in Atlantic City, NJ caused rising tide waters to flood a local candy store. The shop owner duped a customer into buying damaged taffy and the name stuck. wull — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Circus Peanuts

GRACKED.COM As unpleasant as many people seem to find Circus Peanuts, SPANCLE they did beget something AWESOME... LUCKY CHARMS! CREAM WHOLE GRAIN IS ALWAYS THE 1st INGREDIENT The cereal was FROSTED TOASTED OAT CEREAL WITH invented when MARSHMALLOWS a General Mills LUCKY employee added Charms chopped up bits of the marshmallow confections to Cheerios. — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Candy Corn

In the 1880s when it was first invented, CANDY CORN was originally marketed as Chicken Feed. CRACKED COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Snickers

Up until the early 90s, the UK labeled Snickers bars as Marathon bars MARATHON SNICKE This was due to the fact that Snickers, sounded an awful lot like knickers CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Cotton Candy

William Morrison со- created a machine to make 'Fairy Floss' OR AS we know IT TODAY, COTTON CANDY. ALSO, MORRISON WAS A DenTIST, BECAUSE, IRONY. GRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Nerds Ropes

37 Dessert Facts Feeding Our Nonstop Sugar Highs — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Fish Blood Ice Cream

A protein found in fish blood is used in making low-fat ice cream. The protein lowers the temperature needed for forming ice crystals, so less cream or fat is needed (they make the protein from yeast, not fish). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Weird Things We Never Knew About Ice Cream

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Proto-Ice Cream

Ice cream was (kind of) already available to regular people in the 17th century. The first café in Paris, Café Procope, offered a recipe that blended milk, cream, butter and eggs in an early form of ice cream in 1660. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Weird Things We Never Knew About Ice Cream

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Bloody Ice Cream

If you're really adventurous, you can make ice cream with blood instead of eggs. MSH RO B 10 m 12 4 2 AASH They have similar protein compositions, so you can substitute about 65 grams of blood for one egg or 43 grams for an egg white. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Weird Things We Never Knew About Ice Cream

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Mashed potatoes (?)

Ice cream ads use mashed potatoes rather than, well, actual ice cream. The reason is simple - ice cream would melt very easily under studio lights (especially since a shoot can take hours), so they have to find an alternative. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Weird Things We Never Knew About Ice Cream

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Chocolate Ice Cream

Chocolate ice cream is where bad batches of other flavors get dumped. Its dark color and strong taste easily hide discoloration and bad flavors - s so small amounts of, say, botched strawberry get mixed in. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Weird Things We Never Knew About Ice Cream

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Ice cream in Russia

In Russia in the winter; they like to eat ice cream ---and they do it to keep warm. It's not because ice cream is necessarily warm in comparison but because, according to Russian folklore, eating cold food warms you up. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Weird Things We Never Knew About Ice Cream

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Sour Patch Kids

SOUR PATCH KIDS were originally called Mars Men during the UFO craze in the 1970s. SNEER SOUR SOUR NEW عد PATCH Kids en FORES LANDY The name change didn't happen until the 1980s to capitalize on the popularity of Cabbagge Patch Kids in the U.S. GRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Conversation Hearts

8000 LOVE Conversation Hearts were the most popular Valentine's Day candy in the U.S. in 2018. They even beat heart- shaped boxes of chocolates. The Necco company went bankrupt anyway. The chalky treats will be back in 2020, though, thanks to Spangler Candy Company, who bought the recipe. GRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Pez

THE PEZ PEZ The candy BEST ESTER AL 2018 un PEZ is an abbreviation DAS FELNE DFEFFERMINZ aus der DE2 BOX otf the word Pfefferminz which means peppermint in German. GRAGKED.COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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3 Musketeers

what's institute - 240 12%DV - 3 Musketeers Bar NET WT A pack of 3 Musketeers used to come in three pieces as per its name, and was large enough to share. GRAGKED.COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Mystery Dum-Dums - revealed

CRACKED.COM ? منى ?? ANDY Swing CO JORTM ARTIFICIAL MYSTER ? ? DUM Mystery Flavored Dum-Dums are the result of one flavor ending on the production line, and another beginning. — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Baby Ruth

Baby Ruth once sued Babe Ruth for using his own name. Nema BabyRuth Baby Ruth candy bars were introduced in 1920, the same year baseball legend Babe Ruth became a national sensation. Sensing an opportunity, Babe Ruth produced his own line of candy bar called Babe Ruth Home Run Bar. The company sued him and won. Apparently, the court bought their claim that Baby Ruth was named after President Cleveland's daughter Ruth Cleveland who had died in 1904. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Spicy Ice Cream

In Scotland, they offer ice cream that you have to sign a death waiver to eat. (illustration) Respiro del Diavolo is so spicy that you have to relieve the café that serves it of responsibility for personal injury, illness, and possible loss of life. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Weird Things We Never Knew About Ice Cream

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Engine Ice Cream

In WWII, US bomber pilots tried to create ice cream using engine vibrations. 224812 They thought the vibrations would churn the mixture, and the altitude would keep it cold enough to make ice cream. But their first attempts didn't work out. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Weird Things We Never Knew About Ice Cream

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Astronauts didn't really eat astronaut ice cream, or space ice cream, in space. It was created by Whirlpool for NASA's Apollo missions, but records apparently don't clearly show NASA ever actually took it to space. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Weird Things We Never Knew About Ice Cream

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Dairy Queen

The stuff you can get at Dairy Queen actually isn't ice cream .. it's soft serve. DQ DairyQueen DQ HOTEATS COOL/REATS HOTEATS HOTEATS COOLTREATS Coffees HOTEATS Why? It doesn't meet the FDA's regulatory requirements for ice cream, so DQ has to classify their frozen treats as soft serve instead. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Weird Things We Never Knew About Ice Cream

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Ice cream spoons

If you want to be a successful ice cream tester, gold-plated spoons help. The reason it's a good idea is that you get an aftertaste if you use wood or plastic spoons and, on the other hand, silver tarnishes. So gold works best. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Weird Things We Never Knew About Ice Cream

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Color changing ice cream

Someone invented an ice cream that, somehow, changes color as you eat it. (illustration) It's called Xamaleón, and its inventor claims it only contains natural ingredients. Any food can change color depending on temperature and oxidation, he says. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Weird Things We Never Knew About Ice Cream

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Ice Cream

Ice cream contains skatole, a compound that's also found in your poop. At lower concentrations, it has a floral scent, and it's used as flavoring for ice cream (and created artificially for that purpose). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Weird Things We Never Knew About Ice Cream

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Good & Plenty

The most arousing scent to women is the smell of Good and Plenty candy... mixed with cucumber. While testing different scents, the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago found out that the mix of Good and Plenty and cucumbers is very, very appealing to women. So the next time you want to please a lady, try this duo instead of chocolates and roses! DOO Good & Plenty Good & Plenty SIGANE GRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Conversation Hearts

K'ISS ONE ONE - LUY BEM YOU SDD LOVE ISSIX SMILE I SNO CHES BE -DOWS Conversation hearts MINE weren't originally heart-shaped. They began as cockleshells, and later evolved into shapes like horseshoes and baseballs so longer messages could be printed. It would take four decades for the hearts with short but sweet sayings to debut. HUG YOU NE .OVE PUPPY REAL NICE LOVE FOR WINK YOU WINK NICE E K155 LET'S GRAGKED.COM ILE — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Kit Kats and Twix

IN ILLINOIS, YOU WILL NOT BE CHARGED SALES TAX FOR YOUR TWIX OR YOUR KIT-KAT. Nestle KitKat break ® TWIN не СОДЕРЖИТ симшая BOTH TWIX AND KIT-KATS ARE NOT CONSIDERED CANDY UNDER ILLINOIS STATE TAX CODE BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN FLOUR. ITEMS CONTAINING FLOUR ARE NOT TAXABLE. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Haribo

THE NAME HARIBO COMES FROM THE FIRST TWO INITIALS OF THE FOUNDER'S FIRST NAME. LAST NAME AND THE NAME OF HIS HOME TOWN. HANS RIEGEL FROM ВО NN, GERMANY CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Nutella / Kinder Eggs

GRAGKED.COM Michele Ferrero, the Kinder مان - MIX SURPRISE inventor of Nutella, Kinder Eggs, and Ferrero Rocher, was fiercely protective of his recipes, reputedly claiming that even the nutella famously secret recipe for FERRERO Coke Classic was known to more people than that of his famous FERRERO - hazelnut-chocolate ROCHER spread. WORK FERRERO ROCHER — Honestly, that makes so much sense. I've had a ton of hazelnut spreads, and some of them are even better than Nutella. But they never taste quite the same. It's got a certain je ne sais quoi.

Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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Red M&Ms

In the '70s, red M&Ms were discontinued due to a misplaced health concern surrounding the ingredient of the red dye. That was until Paul Hethmon, a bored 18- year old college freshman, decided to create a satirical organization called Society for the Restoration and Preservation of Red M&M's, which received an overwhelming response and ultimately led to the return of the red M&M. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Facts About Candy

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