Modern Marvels
Modern Marvels
Candy 13 Season 5 Episode
It pulls, stretches, bubbles, hardens, crunches, and melts! We eat about 7-billion tons of it yearly. Weโre talking about Candyโloved by kids and savored by adults. Candy-making evolved from a handmade operation to high-tech mass production. Nowhere is that more apparent than at Hersheyโs. On a tour of their newest production facility, we learn how they process the cocoa bean. At Seeโs Candy, we see how they make their famous boxed chocolatesโon a slightly smaller scale than Hersheyโs. We get a sweet history lesson at Schimpffโs Confectionery, where they still use small kettles, natural flavors, and hand-operated equipment. Then, we visit Jelly Belly, purveyors of the original gourmet jellybean. Saltwater-taffy pullers hypnotize us on our sweet-tooth tour; we gaze at extruders making miles of licorice rope; and watch as nostalgia candy bars Abba-Zaba and Big Hunk get packaged. And in this sugary hour, we digest the latest sensationsโgourmet chocolates and scorpion on a stick!
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