Paynes Poppets Mint Creams Covered in Dark Chocolate, 40g

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With over 25,000 Great British products on offer, we have set up a new filter system to help you find the items you are looking for. We have kept theBrowse by Sectionin the top left hand corner and added some new sectionsFood, Drink, Baby, Toiletries, Household and Seasonal. The Leicester factory was closed in 2019, and production of Poppets was relocated to York. history of George Payne & Co history of poppets Paynes of Beddington Paynes of Croydon Road

By the mid-1950s Poppets were available in a variety of flavours: Milk and Plain assortment, Brazils, Hazelnut, Almonds and All Nut assortment and Vanilla and Peppermint Creams. George Payne & Co became the largest tea merchant firm in the world. The business is best-known today for Poppets, a chocolate-coated toffee confectionery. These Mint Poppet chocolate creme sweets are sold from the sweet shop jar weighed out into a clear poly sweet bag to your required weight/amount.

These sweets are approx 1.4cm long 1.2cm wide by 1cm deep and weigh approx 2.2g - 2.7g per sweet with an average weight of approx 2.5g per sweet which will give you approx 40-46 sweets per an old fashion quarter of a pound (113g) or you get approx 76-80 Sweets per 200g weigh out bag.

One of the most popular product lines was the dragée, a bite-sized sweet with a chocolate coating, based on a confection popular in Vienna. The name was eventually anglicised to Payne’s Poppets, and the trademark was registered in 1936.George Payne & Co. began production in the East End of London, before moving to Croydon Road, Beddington in Surrey in the 1930s. In 1998, it was acquired by Northern Foods. In 2001 the closure of the Croydon Road factory was announced, as part of a deal by Northern Foods to take over the Fox's factory in Leicester from Nestlé and relocate production of Poppets there. [3] Payne established George Payne & Co, tea and coffee blenders, from 1896. The factory was at Queen Elizabeth Street, Tower Bridge, Bermondsey. James Finlay & Co, a Scottish tea merchant, held a 30 percent stake in the venture. Keep in a dry and cool place away from strong odours and Direct sunlight avoid storing in any extremes of temperatures. The pink box is very bright, and the flavour is that of strawberry milkshake, not just strawberry, which is a little bit of fun. I just can’t believe we didn’t already have a fruit cream Poppet available! these mint cream fondants covered in a tasty smooth dark/plain chocolate coating are just the treat!