Sweet Candy Company

Yesterday we went with our homeschool group on a candy factory tour. Too bad I didn't get a picture of us all in our lovely hairnets. I thought Hailee would keep trying to take it off but she did great. She only took it off one time. They had yellow lines painted on the floor that you had to stay between at all times. I felt like we were walking down the yellow brick road! They had 2500 lb bags of sugar that were hooked up to a "Sugar Pipe" which would take it to various places around the factory. They also had Chocolate and Corn Syrup pipes. It sort of felt like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory minus the little orange umpa lumpas!

My kids liked the Taffy Room the best. They roll Taffy into huge 90 lb. cylinders and then put it in a machine that rolls it out like a huge play dough snake. It's then cut and wrapped. We got to try a fresh, still warm watermelon taffy. It was incredible.

It was also fun to see how they make cinnamon bears and orange sticks.

At the end of the tour we all got a free bag of Salt Water Taffy and then we bought some other yummy stuff in their store!