Its insane how he rolls all the candy together and looks wierd but when stretched out looks perfect and soo cool

Greg isn't a candymaker. _He's an artist!_

Looove the history lessons and seeing old fashioned candy made.

The pompom also has traditional roots in Scandinavia. Miners would attach them to their hats to cushion the tops of their heads in the dark mine shafts incase the ceiling was too low.

You know it's good when the smell of pumpkin spice is gone and replaced with peppermint

In Belgium and the Netherlands (and maybe in other countries as well), if you translate Santa Claus, you get “Sinterklaas” but we celebrate “Sinterklaas” on 6 December. Our word for Santa is “de kerstman” which means “ the Christmas man” Just a little interesting fact

The pompom also has practical purposes. When weaving or knitting a hat, you make a tube and close an end. You can either sew the end shut or bundle the loose threads into a pompom. I think it has a nice connection to the unicorn dropping, in that a hatmaker takes something that is a leftover part of the process of creating a hat and turns it into something fun and desirable.

Love all the history! Well, it’s everything really. The candy making, Greg’s silky voice, and the history. *chef’s kiss*

These videos are great advertisement because you got me to buy some candies all the way from Michigan!!! I had the black currant candies and they were amazing!

Came out great! Your candy making videos with the history and geeky stuff thrown in are our favorites.

i wanna eat the unicorn dropping like an apple

"If you wanna hear more from Greg..." You ARE Greg! Hahahaha...

Always nice to have some wholesome candy making for my morning.

Ah yes, Why does is wear that strange hat indeed.

I would legit buy some of that eggnog candy!!!

I got your thanksgiving feast candies. The first candies that I got from you. I am so mad that I didn’t get any before. You are a master at what you do. I got to pre order the Christmas mix next.

I always come away from your videos feeling more knowledgable. Thank you for going into so much detail and doing all the research Greg. Great work as usual.

BAH HUMBUG! oh wait - you DO make and sell even those!

It’s so cool to be able to eat the candy as I watch you make it

Do you ever get tired of explaining how the amber candy becomes white?

Whoever ended up getting the long boy shown at 9:31, you will have the best 2020... unlike all the rest of us.

1:04 I love how the person in the background, tho the only one in shot watchin, is still watchin you make candy and lookin just as utterly enthralled by it as any of the kids or otherwise ive seen in the background. This person is just captivated when the camera cuts to him and likely cuz he just watched the candy ooze down onto the coolin table; so ofc he is watchin it all enthralled as he is about to see it happen again :3

I don't know what it is about your videos but they're so addicting. I hope I can visit this store in the future.

I’m watching and eating your holiday feast candy

Love hearing the history behind the designs! Thanks fir sharing!

These videos are just so oddly satisfying

Hah! I always thought it was related to a sleeping cap! All the adults around me growing up kept saying that it can't be related and is just a coincidence! Even the ones who knew he was basically only invented in Victorian times. Thank you for validating 4-year-old me, Greg, ahaha I like seeing the green Father Christmas, too - feels very... woodland spirit, the shade of green being so similar to evergreen trees.

I always love the adventure of seeing how you will come up with the design! Fun video!

The typo in the title! Never change Greg.

So interesting, Greg! Just ordered my first shipment of candy and can not wait for it to arrive in South Africa!

My Thanksgiving eleven flavor assortment arrived today! They were all so good. What a tour of flavors.

Thank you for all your hard work Greg! Your videos are really relaxing and incredibly informative.

Interesting, educational, delicious. That's Lofty Pursuits. Thanks Greg!

The cutting... ridiculously satisfying.

I love listening to you talk!! There’s something soothing about your voice 🤣🤣☺️. And I really love the history lessons!!! I’m one of those people that love to know random facts!

i ordered these 10 days back, i'm looking super forward to them!

Fun Fact: The navy wore pompoms on their hats because they often hit their head on the ceiling of submarines.

Love the mix of old and new in your videos! It also feels daring to try different medias to get the sweet word out there.

Your videos are the most satisfying videos ever/really cool to watch

I like how you show us how you make the candy & from the previous videos depending on what candy you are making will have history behind what the candy is or the design it has

I’m obsessed with your interesting stories. I never even thought about the origin of the Santa hat! I’m subscribing to your podcast now 😃

Delicious and educational. Thank you.

Saxaphone Santa is Best Santa!

Great video! We got the Thanksgiving assortment- that ham one is AMAZING!!! I haven't shared them or told the grandchildren about them yet, but probably will this weekend :)

The sound is great *tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak*

I've been waiting for this!

Dutch shout out, thanks! season greetings back from Holland :)

That looks like a person kneeling. 😊💞

these are so cute!!!

Here Pomegranates are also a traditional Christmas symbol, we have a tradition to throw one on a wall in order to destroy it in one throw and give fortune to our house

shout out from Tampa FL

I learn more here than my history class

Bonus message: In Finland, Santa Claus (joulupukki, "Christmas Goat") is said to live with his elves, reindeer and wife at Korvatunturi, Lapland, Finland. From there he answers to childrens' letters and travels around the world to deliver presents. Traditionally he wore a brown attire but these days he uses a lot of red too. In Finland our Santa hats lack the white rim and pom-pom. Instead, the tip of the hat has a round bell on it!

my grandmother had one of those dancing santas with a saxaphone. it TERRIFIED me

You should make chess piece candy! A knight would be cool :))

So the pompom dates back to a hat with a pompom.

ouuu the red makes my mouth water

I really wanna try the candy when it is still warm and chewy

If you haven’t you should read The autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn. It’s absolutely amazing and one of the best books I’ve ever read. My wife and I read it every December.

I've always wondered why does is wear that strange hat

Coca-Cola didn't create the Red Santa Claus, they invented polar bears. :)

I wish I could order it and come get it locally since I live in town.

Do you remember what the first candy you made is?

Aww come on man. Where is the mixing of the food dye with the candy? I love watching the process

Why does is wear strange hat. *Why does is wear strange hat.*

Never ceases to amaze me that the picture turns out correctly! Love your facts Greg!

Did you choose a Don Rosa drawing of scrooge because you’re familiar with his work, or was just a handy one? I feel like you’d appreciate Don Rosa’s duck comics, he embroils them in history and the kind of subtle humour I think you’d enjoy!

That’s not a frock coat on Scrooge McDuck, it’s a smoking jacket! Frock coats were popular for men of all ages through the early and mid victorian era, only falling out of fashion in the 1890s. They were worn as a suit jacket - day wear, and not an overcoat - and were replaced by the “sack coat.” Sack coats stuck around, and our modern suit jackets are more or less the same. By the very end of the 19th century, yes, only older men would be wearing frock coats - who could afford to replace clothing that wasn’t worn out?

I literally just today "learned" that the modern image of Santa donning a red suit came from coca cola ads. I was watching a coca cola documentary and when they mentioned his likeness we know and love was a product of the coca cola marketing team it really puzzled me. It sounded incorrect for a few reasons. So basically I learned something new today that I was skeptical of then found out it was indeed incorrect by learning YET ANOTHER new thing today d ;

I look at the hot candy how it just like squishy and I just wanna take a bite out it

I have always wondered how they got the candy white?. 🤔

I like sleeping with a beanie on, so it's interesting to learn that wearing a hat to sleep was a common thing.

How are you doing with the Swedish funeral candy? I asked around but have not found any more info locally. But I did find who wrote that info about them, its a youtube person with a channel called Ask A Mortician. So maybe you can ask them what their source was.

Interesting trivia here. Saint Nicholas is obviously the Patron Saint of the Children. But he is also the Patron Saint of what unlikely professionals? Saint Nicholas is also the Patron Saint of Prostitutes. This has its origins from a tale describing how the historical Saint Nicholas gave a woman a large sum of money so her daughters could avoid having to sell themselves for income.

I love your voice

So how do you figure out how much of each colour to mix in?

Looking in the description it said their would be a Black Friday code in the video. I didn't hear one or really see one, so maybe something to take out of the description.

OK maybe someone here could help figure something out. I don't know the name of this tree, or what the candy that was on it was called either. And I cannot find it anywhere I've looked. So I was like 5 or 6 when I first saw this tree. It was a miniature fake tree that I wanna say was made of foam? Anyway...I don't know where it came from, or who we got it from either. All I can recall clearly, is the candy on the tree. This candy was a sort of soft gummy consistency. Like imagine Dots, but softer and chewier. And coated in sugar too. That's what those candies were like. They also came on little white lollipop sticks that were stuck into the tree. I remember loving the hell out of them and cannot for the life of me find where they are or what they are. Not even the christmas tree they came on. Please can anyone tell me what they are.

Hi Greg, great video as always. I have a question, how hot is that sugar on the initial pour?

Chinese Santa rules

The red looks like the Blob.

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I'm sure the answer to this is no, but is there ANY way to get just one flavor of the Christmas assortment? My wife doesn't really like peppermint but really goes crazy over Eggnog.

Just met you in Tallahassee airport

this is not Santa hat, this is sitting *RUMI*

Double you double you double you dot

*Florida State Seminoles*

What a history lesson

Does Greg own Lofty Pursuits and is it an individual store? My hubby and I may be taking a trip to Florida in Feb 2020.

Don't forget about Odin Greg! In norse tradition Santa is connected to Odin, whom Gandalf is based on. Wizard caps are based on the hat Odin was depicted wearing with the slopping point, but those hats had wide brims. Just another step in Santa's evolution I suppose.

Just FYI...when searching “PD Confection” on FB, your page does not come up. “Public Displays of Confection” needs to be typed in. Might help more people find it 😃

I live in the Netherlands

I wonder why he refers to himself in the third person sometimes.

That one dislike is from one of the bad kids

I thought it was a pork chop

Good I was getting so tired of hearing and seeing pumpkin spice everywhere lol.

Everybody you should check out lofty Pursuits on Spotify to see their podcasts Theremazing

Santa is an "is"?

Can you maybe serve liquid hard candy that would be niceYou can only get it at the shop

Hi