If your teeth get stuck in a bar of toffee, or you worry that toffee is going to pull your teeth (or fillings) out, then yes…
…you are a Toffee Numpty!
There’s an art to eating toffee, first you’ve got to give it a whack! Smash it up! Break it up into pieces that you can pop in your mouth, but don’t start chewing just yet, oh no! Take your time, let it warm up and soften up. Then, and only then, are you good to chew!
But don’t rush it! You’ve got to savour the moment, take it slow, take your time, let the world drift by while you’re lost in the toffee.
The Toffee Hammer!
More than a hundred years ago, toffee was usually sold with a little metal hammer to help you break up your toffee, some companies still sell them today (we’d love to get some made up too!).
These toffee hammers have a great history, as they were an essential tool in every suffragette’s handbag…!
The Toffee Hammer & The Suffragettes!
In the early 1900’s, the suffragettes embarked on a war of destruction, to damage – to smash the windows of shops, department stores, offices, businesses owned by the men who were playing their part in denying women the vote! These little hammers were the tools these women used, concealed in their bags, and weighty enough to smash large glass windows with ease. causing costly damage to those with the money and power!
Emmeline Pankhurst wrote in 1914, ‘The smashing of windows is a time-honoured method of showing displeasure in a political situation’.