The first to eat candy were the cavemen when they ate the honey from bee hives. 3500 years ago the Egyptians combined fruits and nuts with honey to make candy. In the Middle Ages sugar was expensive so it was a product that was available only to the wealthy. Boiled sugar candies were popular in the American colonies and in the 1800s American factories were producing “penny candy.” Milk chocolate was made by Switzerland’s David Peter who added milk and created the first milk chocolate in 1876.