BRITAIN’S “SWEET TOOTH.”
ANNUAL COST OF NEARLY £50,000,000.
Britain’s “sweet tooth” costs her roughly £50,000,000 a year. This figure was given by an official of the Chocolate and * Cofeetionery Exhibition, which was held at Olympia. He added that there had been a marked tendency in recent years for more and more sweets to be eaten. An exhibitor explained that it used to be the tendency among many mothers to forbid their children to eat many sweets for fear they should get too much sugar, “but now,” he added, “sweet are being given medicinally in a number of cases where children have been starved .of the necessary amount of sugar.” Ho remarked upon the popularity of old-fashioned sweets, “Lollipops and humbugs are devoured with just as much relish to-day as they were 50 years ago,” he said, “and the modern boy and girl still ask for bulls eyes, liquorice strips, sherbert and pear drops which nave been old favourites for generations.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 2, 2 December 1931, Page 11
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