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    "title": "Flying saucers",
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    "modified": "2026-09-26T14:36:49+01:00",
    "excerpt": "Flying saucers are coloured wafer discs filled with fizzy sherbet. They were first made in Belgium in the 1950s and are still sold in British sweet shops.",
    "content_text": "Flying saucers are small, dimpled discs of coloured wafer, sealed together around a filling of fizzy sherbet. The name comes from the shape: two shallow dishes joined at the rim, just like a cartoon spaceship.\nWhat is in a flying saucer?\nThe outside is thin, dry, edible wafer paper in soft colours. Inside is white sherbet, usually unflavoured, just like the sherbet in a Sherbet Fountain.\nAs the wafer meets your tongue it softens and dissolves almost at once, and the sherbet inside starts to fizz.\nThe fizz\nSherbet contains sugar, an edible acid such as citric or tartaric acid, and a base such as bicarbonate of soda. Dry, it just sits there. Wet, the acid and base react and release carbon dioxide gas, which you feel as a tingle. See what sherbet is made of.\nWhere they came from\nThe first flying saucers were made in the 1950s in Belgium. They are still sold in British sweet shops and in pick and mix today.\nThe sherbet inside is much older than the saucer. In 1816 a London maker, John Richards, claimed to have invented a Portable Sherbet Powder, sold for stirring into water to make a fizzy drink. Only later did sherbet become a sweet in its own right.\nHow to eat one\nThere are two schools of thought. Some pop the whole saucer in and let it dissolve. Others nibble the rim, split the wafer and lick out the sherbet. The only rule is to expect the wafer to stick to the roof of your mouth for a moment.\nA note on wheat\nWafer is often made from wheat flour, but not always. Some flying saucers are made with potato starch wafer instead. If you avoid gluten, always check the ingredients. Our SW039 are sold by the 100 g, and the card lists the full ingredients and allergens.",
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