Humbugs could be in short supply this Christmas after sweet factory workers plan to go on strike over pay and bullying claims. Staff at Tangerine in York, which makes Mint Humbugs and Barratt ...

Bah humbug to sweet thieves. The sweet is 4,000 times heavier than a normal one. A five-stone mint humbug has been stolen days before it was due to be auctioned for charity. It was reported stolen ...

So we’ve set design agencies a fiendish creative challenge: blow the dust off mint humbugs, candy jewellery, sherbet flying saucers and liquorice allsorts to make them cool enough for Gen Z. All their ...

Sweet factory boss Antony Winnard is making a niche claim to having the world's oldest humbug-making machine - and it still works. By Jon Harris 22:00, Thu, Nov 10, 2022 ...

STANDING in glass jars, they once lined the shelves of every sweet shop in the land, loved by generations young and old - but today the simple boiled mint has fallen from favour.

Sales of boiled mints, most strikingly represented in the stripey form of a peppermint humbug, have plummeted by 35 per cent in the past two years, according to new market research.

A STRIKE at a York sweet factory has entered day three. As previously reported by The Press, staff at sweet makers Valeo in Low Poppleton stopped production at 5pm on Monday (March 21) in a ...

Stilwells Humbugs . These classic, buttery, mint hard candies with a striped pattern originated in the U.K. in the 1800s, but the Canadian (more specifically, Montreal) version has been made by ...