Adults and children, sad and cheerful, thin and lush - almost everyone, with rare exceptions, loves sweets... Someone loves ice cream, someone candy floss, and someone cannot live a day without a slice of chocolate or just a small candy. Today the author will tell you everything about sweets. You will read that the first delicacy in Europe was honey, which was the beginning of the "sweet story." Sugar arrived in Europe only in the IV century BC. e., together with Alexander the Great after a campaign in India. Find out that the Spaniard Enrique Bernata came up with "chupa-chups," which in Spanish means only "sucker," and the author of the design of the first candy wrapper was the legendary Salvador Dali; that Georg Landrin, aka Fyodor Gavrilov, called his sweets "montpensier" in honor of the French duchess sung in Dumas' novels; that the production of domestic sweets "Squirrel" and "Bear in the North" did not stop even during the blockade of Leningrad, and there is still a lot, a lot of "sweet" information.