Fantales

Fantales are Australian chocolate-covered chewy caramels that were introduced by Sweetacres in 1930. The name describes the candy – there are literally fan tales (biographies of movie stars) written on the wrapper. These candies arrived shortly after the ‘talkies’ or movies with sound and they were sold as a movie theater candy.

In The Canberra Times poll in 1988, Fantales won the title of the most popular childhood lolly, while The New York Times declared Fantales Australia’s most defining lolly in 2018.