SWEETS The number of traditional sweet shops has by 15% over the last year, in spite of overall falls in sales of confectionery(кондитерские изделия) and high street footfall. What is it that has people hooked?
"The sweet shop is a pilgrimage(поломничество)," says Alex Hutchinson, archivist at Nestle's York headquarters(центр).
"It's a sensory feast: the bright colours, the smell as you go in. All the sweets have different wrappings and make different sounds and have different textures," she says.
Tiny boutiques lined with glass jars ofsparkling(игристые вина), brightly coloured sweeties and old-fashioned chocolates are drawing in more customers, who are returning to the tastes of their youth.
This penchant(склонность) for nostalgia has replaced genuine(истинная) innovation in the confectionery industry, according to a new report in the Grocer industry magazine. Continue reading the main story Make your own sweets Peppermint creams
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"Much of the recent new product development [is] little more than twists on existing brands in the form of flavour extensions(расширения), new sizes or pack formats," it claims.
Yet novelty is an essential part of the enjoyment of confections.
At lavish (щедрый)medieval and Tudor functions the tables would be laden with elaborate displays of sugar plums, whole candied lemons filled with marmalade, shaped fruit pastes scented with rosewater or, more surprisingly, musk or ambergris.
And as the price of sugar dropped in the 18th Century the sweet shop was born, where the middle and lower classes could purchase a bag of Nelson's buttons or aniseed balls to eat on the street.
The 1800s saw the creation of butterscotch, Berwick cockles, Kendal mint cake, bittermints, Clarnico mint creams, Turkish delight, sherbet and Edinburgh rock.
But throughout the 1920s and 30s, British chocolate companies like Cadbury, Rowntree's and Mackintosh scurried to keep pace with a wave of international confectionery innovation.
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