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History Is So Sweet – Featuring Susan Benjamin – MORNINGS WITH RAY AND BRIAN

 

Catch another “sweet” Halloween interview from Susan Benjamin right here! From Good & Plenty to Necco Wafers to Turkish Delight….She covers it all, just for you! Get in the spirit and listen in NOW!

LINK TO RADIO INTERVIEW:

https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/mornings-with-ray-dunaway-87/history-is-so-sweet-102821-891107179

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🔹NECCO WAFERS: https://truetreatscandy.com/product/necco-wafers/

🔹GIBRALTERS: https://truetreatscandy.com/product/gibralter/

🔹TURKISH DELIGH: Turkish Delight, 10 Piece – True Treats Historic Candy (truetreatscandy.com)

🔹GUMMIES: https://truetreatscandy.com/?s=GUMMY&post_type=product

Halloween Candy History with Susan Benjamin – 770 CHQR – The Drive

Hey Everyone!

Check out this awesome interview that Susan did about the history of Halloween Candy the other day on a Canadian radio station!

https://omny.fm/shows/calgary-today-with-angela-kokott/halloween-candy-history

In the meantime, find everything she talks about right here on our online store! Links are below:

🔹GOOD & PLENTY: https://truetreatscandy.com/product/good-n-plenty/

🔹CIRCUS PEANUTS: https://truetreatscandy.com/product/circus-peanuts/

🔹LICORICE: https://truetreatscandy.com/?s=Licorice+&post_type=product

🔹LOLLIPOPS: https://truetreatscandy.com/product/pop-a-lot-lots-of-fun-in-a-box/

🔹PEANUT BUTTER CUPS: https://truetreatscandy.com/product/handmade-peanut-butter-cup/

🔹TOOTSIE ROLL: https://truetreatscandy.com/product/tootsie-roll-big-bar/

Guess who invented Corn Syrup?

Ok – I don’t get why Americans hate corn syrup. It’s sugar. I know, the whole corn-taking-over-the-nation fear and the GMO problem. But these aren’t really about corn: they’re about our agro-economy. Don’t like GMOs, there’s plenty of non-GMO corn syrup – in fact, we sell some at True Treats.

As for the invented part? That’s the best thing! Unlike many other sugars on the market today, corn syrup is an North American original, made by the Native Americans living in various parts of the land. They also candied the cob, probably by boiling it and allowing the sugar to crystallize.

Sources:

“Sweet as Sin: the Unwrapped Story of How Candy Became America’s Favorite Pleasure” (Prometheus, 2016) by Susan Benjamin

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What is the vegan version of the gummy bear?

Gummy CollectionActually the venerable and nicely-textured gummy bear started life as the Turkish delight, a vegetarian medicine-turned-treat that originated around 900 in Arabic apothecaries of the Mideast. The core ingredients were cream of tartar, possibly starch (ours contains corn starch) sugar, and the oil, such as rose. Pistachio or other nuts would have floated deliciously in the mix. Then came gelatin in such creations as the jelly bean and gummy bear – both off-shots of the delight. At long last, one mainstream candy came along to save the vegetarian’s day: the Swedish Fish. The no-gelatin candy was, in fact, invented in Sweden and made its way to the U.S. in the 1950s. It took off here about a decade later. According to Cadbury Adams, who now makes the sweet, they produce 7,000 metric tons of Swedish Fish; the equivalent of 1,929 orca whales.

Sources:

“Sweet as Sin: the Unwrapped Story of How Candy Became America’s Favorite Pleasure” (Prometheus, 2016) by Susan Benjamin

http://mentalfloss.com/article/23125/brief-history-swedish-fish

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