The term boiled sweets refers to the process involved in making them ie boiling the sugar until the sweets harden...I suspect they are called Hard Candy across the pond and they truly ARE hard core suckers to eat (pun totally intended!) 😊😊😊

They are a HUGE challenge if you have any fillings, and major league creators of cavities...

Here's my link for an upvote please;

https://steemit.com/steemit/@lilygolightly/self-esteem-cultivating-kindness-starts-with-you

Chuffed to bits (translation from English = pretty darned thrilled) to win and many thanks for all the laughs from the other competitors entries (all of you are awesome too!) and to you guys for organising such a fun weekly contest😄

PS Practise run Oscars speech over and out💚