Teddy Gray's Herbal and Pear Tablets

4" x 4", 60g
Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Malic Acid, Flavor
ENGLAND

I came to know Teddy Gray's via a film about the company by Martin Parr, one in a series of films he made about the Black Country in England. Teddy Grays has been in the same family and making their "hard boiled sweets" since 1826, some time ago. The recipe for the herbal tablets has not changed since, so essentially when you eat an herbal tablet you are tasting history and precisely what someone would have also tasted 200 years ago. At the time, Charles Dickens was 14 and Charles Darwin was 17, life was simpler and the name Charles seems to have been popular. The flavor is similarly unexpected, herbal with a slight undertone of pineapple if you can believe it, pineapples were cultivated in England in the 1700's so anything is possible. Over time the company has got the business down to such a drill that the staff won't leave and they don't want to retire, based on what they say in the mentioned film it's a great place to work. The beauty of a family run business.