Jelly Babies

When eating a packet of Jelly Babies have you ever thought that they would have a long history behind them?

Well Jelly Babies were first believed to have been produced to celebrate the end of the First World War in 1918, they were known as 'Peace Babies'.

         They were then Rationed in the Second World War causing production to be stopped but in 1953 but after the they came back as Basset's Jelly Babies.

         This is the believed argument but recently some people have been saying that Jelly Babies were around before the end of the Second World War. In Victorian Times!

        The story goes that they were actually created by Herr Steinbeck an Austrian in 1864. He then moved to Lancashire where he started work at Bassetts sweet factory with the ‘baby’ design based on traditional Austrian gingerbread men.

So next time you are tucking into your favorite packet of Jelly Babies, think that they have been around for quite a while!