History of Gummy Bears

In 1922, Hans decided to create a gummy candy inspired by the trained bears (also known as dancing bears) seen during 19" century European markets and festivals. The trained bears had their teeth filed down so they could be safely handled during such festivities and during training.
Officially, the gum part of the name came from the base ingredient for the sweet, gum Arabic. The sweet descends from previous gummy
sweets like Turkish Delight, wine gum (which is non-alcohol amid the name) and the gumdrop.When the gummy bear sweet was invented, it was was called the Dancing Bear (German: Tanzbar) and its small size as well as being fruit flavoured made it affordable for adults and children alike. The sweet even remained popular and economically obtainable during Germany’s Weimar years of hyperinflations that wreaked the economy due to the government printing its own money until its value was reduced to being worthless. During that time, the dancing bear sweets were priced for a simple one pfennig per pair when sold at kiosks In comparison to its 1960s world-famous successor Gold-Bear (German: Goldbar), the Dancing Bears were larger in size.Nearly 90 years after the creation of the gummy bear sweet, German dance record producer Christian Sneider was at a bar in Germany and was referred to by a bartender as her “gummy bear”. Sneider responded with “l am your gummy bear” and that interaction inspired him to write a song which he recorded on his Sony Walkman almost immediately after the encounter. The novelty song was released in 2007 by the Gummybear International record label in Hungarian before being released in multiple languages with a green coloured, underwear-clad character Gummibar featured as the singer (said to be played by Christian’s son). The English version of the song obtained over 100 million views on YouTube upon its release in 2007 and the song has been featured in various media (obviously children’s media) since then.