Humbugs are a traditional hard-boiled sweet available in the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, Australia, Zimbabwe and New Zealand.

Humbugs may be cylinders with rounded ends wrapped in a twist of cellophane, or more traditionally tetrahedral, loose in a bag.

[1] Records of humbugs exist from as early as the 1820s, and they are referred to in the 1863 book Sylvia's Lovers as being a food from the North.

The mixture is finally rolled into a long, thin cylinder and sliced into segments.

These are peppermint-flavoured and are also known as Black Bullets in the UK as they are similar in size to smoothbore musket balls.