sentences:  They are usually flavoured with peppermint and striped in two different colours (often black and white).Humbugs may be cylinders with rounded ends wrapped in a twist of cellophane, or more traditionally tetrahedral formed from pinched cylinders with a 90-degree turn between one end and the other (shaped like a pyramid with rounded edges) loose in a bag.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.