Sweethearts : Valentine Love Hearts
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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 Valentines Day. Sweethearts are available for a 6 week period each year from January 1st through February 14th and then disappear until the next season.
To me, Sweethearts are THE candy for the Valentines Day holiday. Hey Valentine : how about YOU?
I remember when we gave out Sweethearts in grade school. Well, I am no longer in grade school, but I still enjoy giving and receiving Sweethearts candy for Valentines Day. How about you?
>>> I love Sweethearts that heart-shaped candy -- also known as Conversation Hearts -- are popular in the UK as Love Hearts!
Sweethearts : Valentine Love Hearts was originally created on January 10, 2008.
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How do you feel about sweethearts?
I love 'em ... oh, you already knew that didn't you?
Sweethearts Art Print
Bonzom, Jocelyne
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8 billion Sweethearts made per year!
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 Heart-Shaped Candy Gifts
Giving the gift of gourmet candy love hearts for your loved one!
Would you give your sweetheart sweethearts heart-shaped candy?
I Love You Art Print
Robinson, Carol
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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
Cute Sayings: My Pet, Bear Hug, Go Fish, Love Bird, Take A Walk, Purr Fect, Cool Cat, Top Dog, Puppy Love, URA Tiger.
- The Daily Item: Millions of pounds of popular Valentine's Day candy made at ...
- Production for this year's candy started right after last year's Valentine's Day, and Sweethearts observed being made during a tour of the NECCO factory last week by an Item reporter and photographer are for 2013. Production Manager Hugh Albert, ...
- Valentine's Day Hearts with a Message -- 110 Years of Iconic Sweethearts Candy
- Sweethearts Conversation Hearts are made by NECCO (New England Confectionery Company), which was established in 1847, making it the oldest multi-line candy company in the US While also known for Mary Janes, Squirrel Nut Zippers, NECCO Wafers, ...
- Spinners add 'Bobby Valentine's Day'
- The area also will have other Valentine's Day favorites, including Hershey's Kisses and NECCO hearts. With Bobby V in mind, the concession stand also will feature wrap sandwiches, in honor of their (ahem) inventor, and the team will celebrate ...
- Valentine Sentiments Have American Roots
- Another Valentine's Day tradition with deep American roots is the Sweethearts Conversation Hearts produced by the New England Confectionary Company (NECCO). According to the company, it was Daniel Chase, brother of NECCO founder Oliver Chase, ...
The history of Conversation Hearts
www.candyusa.org
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 Heart-Shaped Candy
Won't you please be mine ...
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 Candy Gifts of Heart
Some old-fashioned love hearts for your sweetheart
Sweethearts are sold 1/1 - 2/14
The peak selling season for Sweethearts 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.
Sweethearts Candy : Twilight Theme
Valentine's Day Lenses
More Hearts for Valentines Day and For Your Sweethearts
Hearts make such a great gift any time of year!
Drop me a line ... if you love sweethearts!
Four Romantic Sugary Candy Hearts with Love Messages Photographic Print
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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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genglo
Feb 14, 2012 @ 4:08 pm | delete
- Happy Valentine's Day!
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CruiseReady
Feb 14, 2012 @ 9:46 am | delete
- I remember these from when I was a kid ... they've been around forever!
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blondebecky
Feb 13, 2012 @ 12:01 pm | delete
- remember having these from i was young, used to play house all the time lol
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jimbarnes
Feb 11, 2012 @ 7:11 pm | delete
- i have loved sweethearts since i was a kid
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aesta1
Feb 11, 2012 @ 2:18 am | delete
- It is always good to taste more of love.
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About the Author Jaguar Julie : I Love Sweethearts!
A hope-full romantic for sweethearts at Valentines Day and otherwise!
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