News 12’s Lauren Due is inside the Smarties factory in Union, which operates 24 hours a day to produce billions of smarties rolls. News 12 Staff • Oct 20, 2022, 4:02 AM ...

Vintage candies go down in history for plenty of reasons, mostly taste-related. But one iconic treat was originally made with ...

News 12’s Lauren Due is inside the Smarties factory in Union, which operates 24 hours a day to produce billions of smarties rolls. News 12 Staff • Oct 20, 2022, 4:02 AM ...

Like the Flake, Liquorice Allsorts were a happy accident. After failing to sell a single licorice sweet to a wholesaler in 1899, a Bassett salesperson spilled the whole tray of samples on the ...

News 12’s Lauren Due is inside the Smarties factory in Union, which operates 24 hours a day to produce billions of smarties rolls.

European Smarties are oblate spheroid-shaped disks of chocolate covered with a colorful hard candy shell that are manufactured by Nestle and sold in hexagonal cardboard tubes.

Unfamiliar with some of these candies? Here’s a little breakdown (flavor/year introduced, if known) for ones you may not have heard of: Mary Jane (peanut butter-molasses taffy, 1914); Smarties ...

Smarties are small, sweet, nostalgic and uncontroversial, unless you’re avoiding candy these days. So here’s to all things Smarties or just plain smart.

And new candy innovations don’t come easily: For every 10 new products Smarties launches, only one is a real, lasting hit, Liz estimates. But the Dees are dedicated to keeping Smarties in the ...