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Gobstoppers usually consist of several layers, each layer dissolving to reveal a different coloured (and sometimes different flavoured) layer, before dissolving completely. Gobstoppers are sucked, being too hard to chew comfortably. Such hard candies are more commonly known as ''jawbreakers'' in the United States (though most jawbreakers have some other type of candy in the middle, usually something sour or chewy). Gobstoppers/jawbreakers have been sold in traditional sweet shops for several decades, often sold by weight from jars. As gobstoppers dissolve very slowly, they last a very long time in the mouth, which is a major factor in their enduring popularity with children. MANUFACTURE Each gobstopper forms around a single sugar grain. Gobstoppers are made in large, rotating, heated pans. The candies take several weeks to manufacture, as the process of adding liquid sugar is repeated multiple times (more than 100 times over two weeks to make a one inch ball). Colour and flavour are also added during the panning process. EVERLASTING GOBSTOPPERS The Everlasting Gobstoppers sold under Nestlé's Willy Wonka Candy Company brand were first introduced in 1976 by Breaker Confections, and are named after the Everlasting Gobstopper s in Roald Dahl 's Children's Book '' Charlie And The Chocolate Factory '' (and the movie '' Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory '', which was based on the book). In Dahl's story, Everlasting Gobstoppers are purported to last forever. EXPLODING JAWBREAKERS A few reports have emerged of jawbreakers exploding after being heated. In 2003, a nine year old girl in television program '' MythBusters '' demonstrated that heating a jawbreaker in a Microwave Oven can cause the different layers inside to heat at different rates, yielding an explosive spray of very hot candy when compressed; Adam Savage and Christine Chamberlain received light burns after a jawbreaker exploded. Merely breaking the candy's spherical surface with one's teeth can be enough to cause it to explode. TRIVIA
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