SWEETS SOLD IN BRITAIN
TRADE OF £55,000.000 A YEAR London’s newest and the world’s largest permanent exhibition building had a sugary baptism last week, when it was the scene of the opening of the chocolate and confectionery exhibition. A large gathering of scientists, industrialists and schoolboys was unanimous < in admiration of machines which not only wrap 500 sweets a minute, but which cut and shape toffee introduced at one end in the form of a warm, sticky, plastic rope. Another schoolboys’ dream —or nightmare—come true was a machine in which a rope of sugar and sundry fillings were fed in at one end, and boiled sweets emerged at the other —at the rate of 24cwt an eight-hour day. The retail turnover of the 250,000 selling establishments in Britain is no less than £55,000,000 a year—which means that 35s worth of sweets are sold every second in the year. Scotland is the largest consumer—a fact which bears out the recent contention of a food expert to the effect that the Scot has a constitutional craving for sugar.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23320, 12 October 1937, Page 10
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