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Weak stuff, love from 2020 wya 😳😳

2021 wya?

2023 here!

I've tried a little. Most people who blow sugar actually use isomalt.

We talk about this in our cherry video.

What do you call the confection that's just sugar crystallized onto a string or wooden stick that's often made by schoolchildren as a science experiment? That's what "rock candy" is to Americans.

@@LoftyPursuits I've never once seen 'cut rock' here in the UK. We've got Blackpool rock which is uncut, and then just 'rock,' usually with the flavour such as 'fruit rock,' 'aniseed rock,' etc. If someone asked for cut rock I think we'd be confused. You'll also occasionally see 'Edwardian rock.'

Bit by bit. I don't get rich doing this, and I have to save for the equipment. I've been thinking of doing a pateron account, just not sure if anyone would go for it.

Why doesn't your wooden spoon end up in your food? It's porous and breaks down over time. We seal the gloves with wax, by the time we get them to the candy they are waterproof. They need to be.

There have to be some secrets left in life. The real issue is event if I told you you could not do this without a cooling table. There are tutorials for making candy at home, but our techniques do not lend themselves well to home cooking.

To be fair, it was a very popular anti-smoking song.

I hope you are enjoying them.

Oh absolutely! One of my favorites next to the fruit sours! The nectar candy is amazing as well! Thank you for posting these videos! I love watching them!

It is called blackpool rock when it is made in Blackpool. If it's made somewhere else I am told it is called rock. Like Champagne and sparkling wine.

Unlike with Champagne, which has a legally defined rule as to what can and can't use the label, Blackpool rock labelling seems to be more about tradition than requirement. As of now, Blackpool rock doesn't seem to be a protected name although there was a push to have it on the list I can't seem to find evidence it's on the current protected list or on the potential list.

Most of those candy makers did not want people to think of Blackpool. but to think of them. I don't think it's a protected name, but instead a marketing plan.

I feel bad I never started off my reply with mentioning I love your videos. I also hope I'm not feeing just contrary. I just love the history of food and how things came about and enjoying the talk about it. I mostly feel bad I don't have any good primary sources but 19th and 20th century candy isn't my area of expertise. And you'll have to excuse me if I cover something you know as I know you are an expert, especially on Victorian candy and the equipment. But back to the reply. I suppose it's why so many of the instances I find when talking about it have the name of the location imprinted in the candy itself. As far as I can find, seaside rock was started by an ex-miner, then candy maker, named Ben Bullock who was inspired by his trip to Blackpool to make brightly coloured stick candy (it was less bright before) and introduced the lettering in it as part of the theme. That's where the marketing comes in. It was so popular with tourists visiting the seaside and wanting to take some home that he eventually opened locations himself and somewhere around the same time the Blackpool rock, Brighton rock, seaside rock, or lettered rock became synonymous with the seaside British experience. As for the name, even apparently the oldest remaining family run company in Blackpool that still makes rock (since 1944) refers to it as Blackpool rock, lettered rock, or just rock all over different parts of their site so it doesn't seem like the name Blackpool rock is particularly seen as vital. There are still 20 makers of it, although it was as high as fifty back in the 1950s or 60s.

The east side.

A corporate logo of a girl with a ponytail running. I was convinced I could not do it. It came out great.

freja Lenschow have you been to the pleasure beach?

We bag them up and sell them in the store as bulk candy under the name "Unicorn Droppings"

Specificity is the soul of all good communication. :)

+itastain when it cools, it's more brown than that.

Well yes and no. It was our house band, it was not recorded at our store. It was recorded live elsewhere.