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'''Apple drops''' are a type of hard [[ |
'''Apple drops''' are a type of hard [[boiled sweet]] and are a variety of [[bulk confectionery|pick 'n' mix or penny sweet]]. Ingredients can vary slightly depending on company and brand, but typically they are made using [[sugar]], [[glucose syrup]], [[citric acid]], E330, natural flavour (often apple juice concentrate), and natural colours E100 and E141. |
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Apple drops were mainly popular in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and [[Ireland]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.examiner.ie/weekend/features/the-candyman-can-173648.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202233714/http://www.examiner.ie/weekend/features/the-candyman-can-173648.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 2, 2012 |title=Irish Examiner|access-date=2012-01-13}}</ref> during the 1980s and 1990s, with demand for them sharply dropping after that time. The sweets are now usually found only in smaller independent shops or from larger retailers at an increased price. |
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[[Sugar]], [[Glucose Syrup]], [[Citric Acid]] E330, Natural Flavour, Natural Colours E100, E141 |
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==See also== |
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Once extremely popular with children of the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and [[Ireland]] especially during the 1980's/1990's, apple drops have since become a rarity with the rabid increase in large newsagent franchises, most of whom no longer stock these traditional and well established sweets as the demand simply is not there. Where apple drops were once favoured by children and adults alike for the quantity in which they were given, one would ask for a quart (quarter pound) of apple drops and receive a bag of roughly 25 units, now they are resigned to either the top shelf of smaller independent shops or bought at an extremely inflated price from companies that have re-marketed them, ironically, as a so called higher quality sweet. |
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* [[Red Hots]] |
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Apple drops are a type of hard boiled sweet and are a variety of pick 'n' mix or penny sweet. Ingredients can vary slightly depending on company and brand, but typically they are made using sugar, glucose syrup, citric acid, E330, natural flavour (often apple juice concentrate), and natural colours E100 and E141.
Apple drops were mainly popular in the UK and Ireland[1] during the 1980s and 1990s, with demand for them sharply dropping after that time. The sweets are now usually found only in smaller independent shops or from larger retailers at an increased price.
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[edit]- ^ "Irish Examiner". Archived from the original on February 2, 2012. Retrieved 2012-01-13.
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