1. The famous Snickers bars in the UK and Ireland were called Marathon until 1990. The first Snickers bar was invented in 1923 by American confectioner Franklin Mars, who founded the Mar-O-Bar Company in 1911 (he renamed it Mars Candies in 1926 and later Mars Incorporated). Mass production of Snickers began in 1930 and for 60 years in the UK and Ireland, bars were produced under the name Marathon. Only in 1990 in these countries it was decided to start producing bars under the name by which the whole world knows it - Snickers.

2. In 1897, dentist William Morrison and confectioner John Wharton created a machine that turned sugar into superfine threads. With these superfine threads assembled, William and John began to create a new product called cotton candy. In 1904, it was presented at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. In addition to cotton candy, such food products as waffle cone, iced tea, peanut butter, hamburger, etc. were presented and popularized at this fair.

3. We all love chocolate. But did you know that, technically speaking, white chocolate is not chocolate. Standard chocolate consists of grated cocoa, cocoa butter and powdered sugar (milk is also added to milk chocolate). By changing the proportions of these ingredients, you can change the taste of the finished product. In white chocolate, there is no trace of cocoa (except for cocoa butter, obtained by squeezing from grated cocoa).

4. M&Ms are famous all over the world. But what does this acronym mean? In fact, M&M are the first letters of the names of the creators of these sweets. In 1941, Forrest Mars, Sr., son of Franklin Mars, who founded Mars Incorporated, and Bruce Murrie, son of William Murrie, president of Hershey, founded Mars & Murrie (M&M for short) and began to produce new candies that subsequently conquered the whole world.

5. The earliest sweet that people if from prehistoric times was honey. The origins of confectionery can be traced back to around 2000 BC. Then the ancient Egyptians made sweets by mixing fruits and nuts with honey. The Romans, Greeks and Chinese made sweets based on sesame seeds, nuts, etc. The Aztecs in Mexico used cocoa beans to make a bitter drink called "cacahuatl". Sugar was added to this drink only 1500 years after its creation.