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2007-01-22 13:35:32 · 5 answers · asked by Darren Hayes 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
All candies are sweets, but not all sweets are necessarily candy. If you ask anyone around here if they have any sweets, they´ll most likely respond with, "You mean candy or would you like some ice-cream, cookies, pie, cake....etc." IOW, anything that has a high content of sugar and is sweet is called sweets. So I guess it depends on what part of the country you´re in :-)
2007-01-22 18:04:55 · answer #1 · answered by Luna 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, candy does mean the term sweets.
2007-01-22 21:43:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
sort of, but we don't use 'sweets' where i live. i'm south of houston and a lot of what we say tends to have a tex-mex twist to it and no one says 'sweets' when they mean 'candy',
but when i visited family in Wesconsin, they said 'sweets' when they meant hard or gummy candy or somthing with a really high sugar content.
2007-01-22 21:46:26 · answer #3 · answered by brooklynn 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes but I think most people associate candy with "anything sweet and damaging to the teeth" (except chocolate) but "sweets" is usually hard candy you suck on.
2007-01-22 21:39:52 · answer #4 · answered by Belie 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Candy is a type of sweet.
Yes, they are synonomous.
2007-01-22 21:40:46 · answer #5 · answered by Kahlo 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋