11Snickers
For several years, "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek's "breakfast of champions" consisted of a Snickers and a Diet Pepsi. After his nutritionist reprimanded his routine, he switched his meals accordingly. He replaced them with Milky Way bars and Diet Cokes.
12Toblerone chocolate
25% of all Toblerone chocolate is sold at duty-free airport shops.
13Hershey's bars
In 24 states, you will pay sales tax on Hershey's bars but not on Twix. This is because those states define candy as flour-free in their sales tax code and Twix contains flour, making it a grocery item.
14Pop Rocks candy
Pop Rocks candy is made by exposing melted candy syrup to ~600psi of CO2, then allowing it to cool, thereby trapping highly pressurized micro-bubbles of gas in the candy.
15Dum Dums lollipops
The Mystery Flavor of Dum Dums lollipops is a mixture of two flavors that come together when the end of one batch of candy meets the beginning of the next batch. Thus, the Mystery Flavor continually changes.
16Candy
During World War 2, the Japanese would hand out candy to starving Chinese children. The candy was laced with anthrax.
17AYDS
There was an appetite suppressant candy called AYDS (pronounced AIDS) in the 80’s with the slogan ‘Lose weight deliciously with the aid of AYDS’
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18Berlin Airlift
During the Berlin Airlift, one of the pilots gave some candy to some children in Berlin. After seeing how much they enjoyed it, he began dropping candy from his airplane before landing. Other pilots soon joined in and over 23 tons of candy would be dropped over Berlin.
19Cotton Candy
"Cotton Candy" is called "Fairy Floss" in Australia, "Grandma's Hair" in Hebrew, "Father's Beard" in French, "Ghost's Breath" in Afrikaans, "Doll's Wig" in India and "Girl's Hair" in Arabic.
20Kit Kat bars
The "chocolayer" between Kit Kat wafers is crushed up Kit Kat bars.
