Sweet Talk: The Secret History of Confectionery

by NicholasWhittaker (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $5.20

  Whatever happened to Cadbury's Aztec, the Spria bar and Bazooka Joes? What are pink candy shrimps actually made of? Who thought up lines like: What kind of gumster are you? and It's the honeycomb middle that weighs so little ? Why are there fewer sweets in your newagent's today than 20 years ago? Who buys West Indian Limes? These questions and many more are answered in this book - a celebration, chronology, pop-cultural history and critical account of the changing world of 20th-century confectionary. Unashamedly nostalgic in parts, the book contains stories of forgotten brands, traces patterns of consumption and explores the world of sweet manufacturing and establishes the sweet and chocolate bar in folk history.