Patrick Filler

Happy Valentine’s Day

Will you be my Valentine, reader? No? Ok, then — read this profile of the Sweetheart candy company for a little Valentine’s Day trivia:

More than eight billion (some 13 million pounds) of the little hearts are sold in the six weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day. Sweethearts make up 40 percent of the Valentine candy market, just behind chocolate, according to Aimee Scott, Necco’s marketing director.

(via The Morning News)