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Today is day 11 of 30 poems in 30 days....

The theme today is :-

Jelly Babies !!

Jelly Babies 

From the shop

I consume you all,

I can't stop

You look at me with 

Accusing eyes

No if's or but's, where's

Or whys's

Like a confectionery carnivore

I chomp you down

The King of sweets

In a sugar crown

And where do I start 

On these sweet breads

Not their bodies

I grind their head !

Facts about Jelly Babies

Jelly Babies originate as far back as 1864 and are claimed to have been formulated, or created, by an Austrian man, named Herr Steinbeck, working at Fryers of Lancashire.

It is believed he designed the shape on the traditional Austrian gingerbread man and they were originally named 'Unclaimed Babies'.

Around half a century later, in 1918 Bassetts sweet makers of Sheffied, South Yorkshire produced what they then called 'Peace Babies' and these were made to mark the end of the First World War.

These sweets have always been a massive favourite among Children and Adults alike presumably for the distinctiveness in the various colours and apperance, sweet taste and easy to eat.

Interestingly, the manufacture of the sweet was suspended during the second World War, due to shortages.

The product was then relaunched by Bassetts in 1953, only this time they were named  'Jelly Babies'.

The Bassetts company was taken over in 1989 by Cadbury-Schweppes.

In 2007, Bassett's changed the ingredients to include only natural colours and ingredients in the sweet.

These days, there are other brands of the sweet on the market, not only just different sweet makers but also some Supermarkets produce their own brand of this sweet.

Barnack Confectionnery launched a sweet named 'Jellyatrics' to mark the 80th birthday of the sweet.

The Beatles pop group use to be pelted with the sweet, in the USA and UK, after it was revealed it was George Harrison favourite sweet.

Poetry Challenge

NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April.

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