The fudge table at The Olde Stanton Store in Blue Mountain Village, Ont., is a dream for anyone with a sweet tooth. Some of the fudges available are cookie and cream (bottom right); butter pecan (left) and maple nut (second row); cappuccino (left), jalapeno and red velvet (third row); dark chocolate (left), carrot cake and M&Ms (fourth row); cranberry (above the M&Ms) and mint chocolate (top centre). THE CANADIAN PRESS/Alex Swidersky
LONDON, Ont. - The story goes that fudge was invented in the U.S. in the 1880s when someone trying to make another type of candy misjudged the temperature and took it off the stove too soon. They liked the soft, smooth confection that resulted and fudge and the saying oh, fudge! meaning oops were born.