I love Sweethearts that heart-shaped candy -- also known as Conversation Hearts -- are popular in the UK as Love Hearts!
Sweethearts are the small heart-shaped candies with a peak selling season around Valentine's Day. They are available for a 6 week period each year from January 1st through February 14th and then disappear until the next season. To me, they are THE candy for this holiday.
PS Did you happen to notice the latest tip ebook from HQ? Ah, thanks for spotlighting the sweethearts candy! Much appreciated.
Would you give your sweetheart sweethearts heart-shaped candy?
The sweet details on Sweethearts
The heart-shaped candy that says so much!

Sweethearts were originally invented by Howard B. Stark of the Stark Candy Company, which was purchased by NECCO.
Sweethearts are small heart-shaped candies sold around Valentine's Day. Each heart is printed with a message such as "Be Mine", "Kiss Me", "Call Me", and "Miss You". Sweethearts are made by the New England Confectionery Company, or NECCO. A similar type of candy is sold in the UK under the name Love Hearts. NECCO manufactures nearly 8 billion sweethearts a year.
How do you feel about sweethearts?
I love 'em ... oh, you already knew that didn't you?
Sweethearts Heart-Shaped Candy
Won't you please be mine ...
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About 8 billion hearts will be produced this year; that's enough candy to stretch from Rome, Italy to Valentine, Ariz. and back again 20 times.
About 250 billion have been made to date!
Sweethearts are made by NECCO
The sweet scoop about the company
Necco is the popular acronym for the candy company known as the New England Confectionery Company. Initially created by a union of small confectionery companies in the Boston, MA, area in 1901, Necco Sweets, a trade name derived from the company title, has grown into one of the world's largest companies specializing in confectionery-based manufacturing.
Founded by brothers Oliver R. and Silas Edwin Chase in 1847, "Chase and Company" became an integral part of what is now Necco.[1] Having previously invented and patented the first American candy machine, the Chase brothers continued to design and create machinery that made assortments of candy, such as their popular sugar wafers.
How are Sweethearts made?

First sugar, color and other ingredients are mixed together. When the mix feels like dough, it is ready to be made into hearts. Workers pick up the dough and take it to a machine that flattens it.
Another machine stamps a saying like 'cutie pie' on it. The same machine also will cut the dough into hearts. The candy drops on a conveyor belt that takes the conversation hearts to a dryer.
Once the candy is dry, it gets mixed in with other colors. Finally, the hearts are boxed and shipped.
Original Equipment is used to make Sweethearts!
History is still at work in the manufacturing process of conversation hearts. It takes a combination of machines and skilled candy makers to produce conversation hearts. Many of the machines used to make conversation hearts are the original machines or exact replicas.
The buzz on NECCO
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The history of Conversation Hearts
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In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Queen Gertrude offers the now-loved sentiment "Sweets to the Sweet." Perhaps this is the origin of the tradition of giving candy to a loved one. Early American colonists made homemade candies with love notes scratched on the surface for Valentine's Day. New England Confectionary Company (NECCO) expanded upon the colonists' idea and created the conversation heart in the mid-1800s.
In 1860, Daniel Chase, brother of NECCO founder Oliver Chase, invented the process to print motto candies. Originally, the candies were "cockles" - small, crisp, scallop shell-shaped candy wrapped in colored paper with printed sayings. The Sweet Hearts, the name used for candies with mottos inscribed directly on them, were invented in 1900. The candy was cut into shapes like horseshoes and baseballs. This allowed for longer sayings to be printed on them such as "How long shall I have to wait? Pray be considerate." This enabled would-be-lovers to send messages to each other.
As time went on, the sayings became shorter and more to the point. The familiar heart shape was also produced. Original sayings include "be mine," "kiss me" and "my man." Every year new sayings are added.
Today, conversation hearts are one of the most popular Valentine's Day candies. People all over the country love to give them to their valentines and they are especially popular with school children.
Sweethearts UK style -- Love Hearts

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Love Hearts are a type of confectionary manufactured by Swizzels Matlow in the United Kingdom. They are hard, fizzy, tablet-shaped sweets in a variety of fruit flavours featuring a short, love related message on one side of the sweet.
10 New Sweethearts Sayings
At least 10 new conversation heart sayings are introduced each year. Recent additions include "Yeah Right," "Call Home" and "Puppy Love."
That makes well over 100 original sayings in total!
Sweethearts Heart-Shaped Candy
Some old-fashioned candy for your sweetheart
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The peak selling season for conversation hearts last only six weeks, but confectioners produce the candy for nearly eleven months of the year.
They're available January 1st through February 14th.
Conversation from the Heart video
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Do you love this little candies? Can you remember when you first gave or received these? I'd love to hear your memories ... let me know!
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- drifter0658 drifter0658 Feb 13, 2009 @ 7:56 am
- These little gems can be a wonderful catalyst to start a great fire ;)
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- michelledurakis michelledurakis Jan 15, 2009 @ 11:01 pm
- I love this page so very cute, I have these every Valentine's day.There so yummy. 5*
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Sweethearts are sold for Valentine's Day
The sweet scoop on this Holiday ...

Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14. In the Americas and Europe, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery. The holiday is named after two among the numerous Early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.
The day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of "valentines." Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards.
The sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain, and, in 1847, Esther Howland developed a successful business in her Worcester, Massachusetts home with hand-made Valentine cards based on British models. The popularity of Valentine cards in 19th-century America was a harbinger of the future commercialization of holidays in the United States.
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