Adults and children, sad and cheerful, thin and plump - almost everyone, with rare exceptions, loves sweets... Some people love ice cream, some love cotton candy, and some cannot live a day without a slice of chocolate or just a small lollipop. Today the author will tell you everything about sweets. You will read that the first delicacy in Europe was honey, which became the beginning of the “sweet history”. Sugar arrived in Europe only in the 4th century BC. e. together with Alexander the Great after his campaign in India. You will find out that the Spaniard Enrique Bernata invented the “lollipop”, which in Spanish simply means “sucker”, and the author of the design of the first candy wrapper was the legendary Salvador Dali; that Georg Landrin, aka Fyodor Gavrilov, named his sweets “monpensier” in honor of the French duchess glorified in Dumas’s novels; that the production of domestic sweets “Belochka” and “Mishka in the North” did not stop even during the siege of Leningrad, and much, much more “sweet” information.