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quote[0]="The Arabs built the first &#147;industrial&#148; sugar refinery around the year 1000, on the island of Crete, which they renamed <i>Qandi</i>. The word <i>candy</i> comes from this word, which means &#147;candied&#148; or &#147;crystallized.&#148;"
quote[1]="A recent survey revealed that 52&#37; of U.S. adults said they like chocolate best. The second favorite flavor was a tie (12&#37; each) between berry flavors and vanilla."
quote[2]="Before refined sugar was available, people of ancient times in Asia and the Middle East made confections out of honey, fruits, nuts, and spices."
quote[3]="Sweet treats were first enjoyed by prehistoric cave dwellers who ate honey from beehives."
quote[4]="In the Middle Ages, spices thought to have medicinal properties were dipped in melted sugar, then cooked. These confections, which came to be known as drag&eacute;es, were popular for centuries. Modern versions of drag&eacute;es often have centers of nuts or dried fruits."
quote[5]="In the United States, candy was first commercially available from pharmacists and was primarily used as medicine."
quote[6]="Admiral Richard E. Byrd took two-and-a-half tons of candy to the South Pole on one of his expeditions."
quote[7]="In Europe during the Middle Ages, the high cost of sugar made candy a delicacy available only to the wealthy."
quote[8]="The word <i>sugar</i> comes from <i>sarkara</i>, the Sanskrit word for &#147;sugar cane.&#148;"
quote[9]="The French word <i>bonbon</i>, a candy with a fondant center and chocolate or fondant coating, means &#147;good-good.&#148;"
quote[10]="<i>Caramel</i>,from the phrase <i>kurat al milh</i> or &#147;ball of sweet salt,&#148; was invented by the Arabs, and one of its first uses was as a depilatory for harem ladies."
quote[11]="Americans consumed about 7.1 billion pounds of candy in the year 2000."
quote[12]="American adults 18 and over consume 65 percent of the candy that's produced in the United States each year."
quote[13]="Denmark has the highest per capita consumption of candy in the world at 29.5 pounds."
quote[14]="Younger children are more likely than older children to prefer hard candies."
quote[15]="The world&#146;s largest lollipop is at BonBon-Land in Holme-Olstrup, Denmark. The peppermint-flavored pop weighs over 3,000 pounds."
quote[16]="The word <i>lollipop</i>, which first appeared in England in the 1780s, comes from the British word <i>lolly</i>, meaning &quot;tongue,&quot; plus the sound that the candies make when you pull them out of your mouth!"
quote[17]="Students at Purdue University built a machine to see how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop&#151;the average was 364. With human volunteers, the average was 252."
quote[18]="The word <i>sugar</i> comes from <i>sarkara</i>, the Sanskrit word for &#147;sugar cane.&#148;"
quote[19]="The first candies made commercially in the United States were Gibralters, first sold in Salem, Massachusetts around 1806."

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