SweeTarts
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SweeTarts are sweet and sour candies invented by J. Fish Smith, the owner of Sunline. The tablets were created using the same basic recipe as the already popular Pixy Stix and Lik-M-Aid products, in response to parents' requests for a less-messy candy. In 1963, SweeTarts were introduced with the same flavors as the popular Pixy Stix: cherry, grape, lemon, lime, and orange.
The Sunline company was later bought by Rowntree Mackintosh, of the United Kingdom, which was, in turn, taken over by Nestlé. Nestlé rolled the SweeTarts family of candies into the already-existing Willy Wonka Candy Company family of brands.
The current flavors in the SweeTarts roll are: tropical punch (blue), cherry (pink), grape (purple), green apple (green), lemon (yellow), and orange (orange). In 2001, Nestlé chose to replace the original lime with green apple. Also, the flavors are more tart now than in the past.
The name is usually pronounced [swiʔ tɑ(r)ts], with gemination appropriate to the wording "sweet tarts" even though the brand has only one medial t.
[edit] Products
- Sweet Tarts
- Chewy Sweet Tarts
- Sweet Tarts Shockers (formerly known as Shock Tarts), sour chewy candies that come in a variety of fruit flavors.
- Sweet Tarts Shockers Gum Balls (formerly known as Shock Tarts Sour Gum Balls), sour fruit gum balls.
- Sweet Tarts Gummy Bugs, small gummy candies shaped like bugs.
- Sweet Tarts Chews, Sweet Tart taffy, like a Sweet Tart Laffy Taffy
- Sweet Tarts Jelly Beans, Sweet Tarts flavored jelly beans sold seasonally around Easter.
- Sweet Tarts Squeeze, a tangy semi-liquid candy that one squeezes out of a tube like toothpaste.
- Sweet Tarts Rope, a chewy rope-like gummy in the shape of a straw with a tangy Sweet Tarts blue filling in the middle.
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