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The Everton Mint.
A curious interweaving of food and football brought these about at the tail-end of the 19th century. The legend goes thus: a toffee shop was located near to where the Everton football club developed near Liverpool, and its owner, Molly Bushell (or Busshell), developed the Everton Toffee, which quickly became a favourite among football crowds in the area. When the team moved to Goodison Park in 1892 they found themselves near another toffee shop, belonging to one Mother Nobletts. Rather than copy her rival, Nobletts used the colours of an early Everton team strip as the basis for a new confection - the black and white striped Everton Mint. Bushell eventually out-did Nobletts by winning the right to sell her toffees inside the ground, beginning a tradition of the Toffee Lady as a feature of Everton matches. The team nickname is now The Toffees.

And why post this? Because, in addition to woolens and crockery and natural-bristled brushes, the English make good and pretty candies. And ...one of Amy Sedaris's characters in Strangers With Candy is called CHUCK NOBLETTS!!

Which may lead us to this.
And this.
And this, which could be mildly surprising.