Sweet's Candy Factory Tour

While the kids were off track, we went to the Sweet's Candy Factory with a few neighbor friends for a tour. Just walking through the factory's front doors gave me a sugar high! Boy, it smelled good! Chocolate, cinnamon bears, & hot taffy!

We didn't take many pictures, since you can't take any during the tour, but here are the ones we took at the beginning and the end...

The first part of the "tour" was a video that showed the history of the Sweet's Candy business. They showed how they started out & how they make the candy there in the factory.

Here the boys are waiting for the video to begin:

Here's the girls:

The tour was lots of fun--we saw where the sweets were all stored, how they send their sugar & other ingredients throughout the factory using pipes (imagine a pipe of dark chocolate, sending chocolate whooshing to the room where they coat raspberry jelly sticks!)...we even got to see how the taffy was made, rolled, & wrapped. We got to eat warm taffy samples!

At the end of the tour, they encourage you to visit their store on site, where all the candy is fresh, fresh, fresh. We brought home some taffy, & some jelly raspberries & blackberries that look like gumdrops--I think they called them black & reds. Sooo good. :o) The kids went home with complementary packages of taffy, hairnets, & sugar highs. :o)

Such a fun afternoon! And I'm happy to report that no one was shrunk, dropped down a garbage-chute, sucked up into the chocolate pipes, or turned into a great big blueberry. Success!