Werther's Original Available In 90 Countries !

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I’ve eaten Werther’s Original for more years than I can remember. I carry some sweets of this brand around with me in all my handbags and rucksacks. One doesn’t get sticky fingers when unwrapping them. Their light brown surface is smooth and dry. This means that if a Werther’s Original has fallen down and the floor is not too dirty, it can still be eaten after blowing on it and/or rubbing it clean, heehee. Once the sweet is in the mouth the sweet eating humankind divides itself into suckers and biters. I am first the one and then the other. Werther’s Original are quite hard. I don’t want to risk ruining my teeth by biting them at once. So I first roll them around in my mouth and when they’ve become thinner, I bite them into pieces. Sucking Werther’s Original activates the production of saliva. So, if one is a bit thirsty, such a sweet can help for a while. It can also quench a small hunger what with real butter (4,5%) and fresh cream (7%) as its main ingredients. Eight other ingredients are mentioned on the back of the bag but no percentage is given. The number of calories isn’t given, either. I’m surprised that the Werther’s Original people get away with this. I thought it was obligatory now to mention these things. Maybe it’s better not to know the number of calories, though. I know that I don’t eat Werther’s Original to stay slim and healthy! Of course, thirst and hunger are not the reasons why I enjoy Werther’s Original. I enjoy them for the taste, a creamy caramelly one. In fact, people have enjoyed this German speciality for over 100 years and do so now in 90 (!) countries. In 1903 a sweet factory was founded in the German village of Werther. We have to thank the employee August Nebel who invented what we now know as Werther’s Original. The front of the bag shows a colourful picture of a stylised German village in the background and two milk jugs in the foreground with white flowers to the right and to the left. Werther’s Original are associated with olde worlde charm. Obviously, this sells well. Later the firm was renamed into August Storck. The name is written with a ‘k’. Were it written with an ‘h’, it would be the German equivalent of the English word ‘stork’ (Storch). The logo of the firm are two wings. The Storck people have decided to adopt the bird for the logo and the image. They founded the Stork Foundation and donate a lot of money to save the habitat of the white stork - fields and river flood plains - from destruction. If you’re interested how they do this, you can find it out on their homepage (this is the English version). So by eating a Werther’s Original you’re doing something positive to preserve the ecosystem.