About

Jesmona Black Bullets are very traditional mint flavoured sweets, whose origins are lost in the mists of time. Black Bullets themselves are a fairly typical sweet from the North East of England where the word Bullet is a dialectic term for any boiled sweet.

One myth surrounding the Black Bullets is that they derive their distinctive shape and size from having been made in the moulds of musket balls. While we cannot say for sure whether this is the case, we can say that they do not form part of the modern production technique!

Indeed one theory behind the growth in popularity of Jesmona Black Bullets in the North East is down to their clean mint flavour, which was welcomed by the miners and industrial workers who were not allowed to smoke at work.

The Jesmona brand itself is somewhat antiquated, but is believed to take its name from the Jesmona are of Newcastle in the traditional heartland of Black Bullet eating. Whatever the origin,. Jesmona has become the name for Black Bullets.

Long before the current fashion for natural products, Jesmona Black Bullets were made purely from sugar, glucose and peppermint oil.. no artificial colourings or flavourings at all!