When was smarties candy invented

He was a Canadian citizen at the time by dint of 'living' in Canada and being a British subject. He retained his Canadian citizenship all his life so that he could retain his British citizenship. He resided for most of the rest of his life in Washington, DC and was granted U.

In September , Bell wrote the patent specifications for, and refined the design of, the telephone in Brantford Canada , although he had actually developed the first one in Boston with Watson.

Canadians are proud of AGB and his accomplishments. We recognize that he was a 'world citizen' of sorts, but claim him as Canadian because: he moved here from Scotland Europe, as did most of the 'Canadians' and 'Americans' of the day ; he was a Canadian citizen Brantford and Baddeck ; did much of the early idea development work for the telephone in London, England, then Brantford, where the actual patent specification was drawn up; and is buried in Canada.

Unlike most Americans, who simply know him as 'the inventor of the telephone,' I think most Canadians know that he immigrated from the British Isles, lived and died in Canada, and only lived in the U. His descendents are American because he married an American, his children were born there, and they are also the co-descendents of established wealthy American families the Hubbards and Grosvenors , and so chose to remain there.

AGB himself, though, was Canadian. The Nestle Canada web site doesn't mention a date for Smarties at all in its history page. I think that if Smarties had been invented in Canada, they might just have mentioned that fact somewhere. Furthermore, since the currency in Canada has been decimal since , I don't think that the reference to them being sold at 2d.

Smarties were a British Invention. I can't imagine that the web site of a multi-billion dollar firm like Nestle's would make that claim if it were not true, as someone would have sued by now if they just made stuff up like that for fun. I have been asked this question about twice a month for the past year because of the message cited in Section 2.

Thanks Molson! Where were Smarties Invented? I get asked this one so often, I finally assembled the facts and put them here. Did you know - Nearly 16, Smarties are eaten every minute in the UK. For Smarties, those little rolled candies that someone dropped into your trick-or-treat bag every single Halloween , that particular holiday is big, big business. The company starts taking orders for late October a full year ahead of time, and its factories start making those fruit-flavored candies six months in advance, to ensure that there are enough for every little ghost, Baby Shark, or tiny Taco Bell Seven-Layer Burrito.

But this October is an ultra-special month for the New Jersey-based confectioner because it's celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Smarties Candy Company, as well as the 95th birthday of its founder, Edward Dee.

And despite, you know, being 95, he's still the chairman of the Smarties Board of Directors. Dee, a British immigrant and third-generation candy man, opened his first factory in Bloomfield, New Jersey in August , less than a year after he and his young family arrived in the United States.

Less than 15 years later, he opened another factory in Toronto, Canada—because why should Americans get all that good-good candy? The company still has two factories, and they run 24 hours a day, five-and-a-half days a week, so they can produce more than two billion with a B candies every year.

But the turning point in its production came when a French confectioner called Claude Gaget turned up at the Rowntree factory in York in , said Miss Hutchinson. And he said, 'no, I want to buy you'. But a pivotal moment in the sweet's history came soon after the firm's marketing director George Harris returned from the United States, where he had been inspired by the way American confectioners were creating brands for products.

But Harris wanted to give things a personality," said Miss Hutchinson. Crucially, in , Harris turned his attention to renaming the Chocolate Bean to make them more recognisable and the Smarties brand was born. I don't think we can know what was in his mind but there's something about the rattle when you shake a tube that is a bit onomatopoeic, where it sounds like the word.

The brand proved a hit and by , was so popular the firm had to build a new factory block solely for production of the sweet, which had to be expanded again just a few months later. They were phenomenally successful. By , the sweet came in four flavours - milk, plain, coffee and orange - and were sold in their now iconic cardboard tubes - a "fashionable" form of packaging that did away with the costly and clunky tins, said Miss Hutchinson.

This boom, however, was short-lived. Shortly after the outbreak of World War Two, production was stopped. Although the war ended in , shortages continued and sugar rationing lasted until The following year, it phased out its blue Smartie amid concerns over artificial additives and replaced it with a neutral-coloured white Smartie. And although it seems the firm has no plans to reinstate the old tube for nostalgia's sake, the fuss kicked up by blue sweet fans had an impact.

In , the firm started using spirulina - a form of sea algae - to dye the shell and the blue Smartie was reborn. And this year, after much lobbying from citrus addicts, the confectioner has released an orange-only tube of Smarties.