"...and that leads to a story where candy kills people... just in time for the holiday season!" You're wonderful, Greg.

@MariaHernandez-bn6zm

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I love these video so much that I got blueberry image candy.

I knew The Jungle and the poison squad did a lot to advance food regulation in the US, but had no idea about the humbug affair. Awesome!

Watching this channel around Christmas time has always been my comfort zone for like 10 years now, I love the vibes

Strange insight, I might be able to explain "The Oriental Cut". I don't particularly care for the term but it might be because of the rolled aspect of it. In many asian countries there is a cutting technique where you roll the vegetable as you cut it when making stews and some steamed dishes.

have you heard of the Canadian hard candy "chicken bone"? it's cinnamon with a chocolate center.

Greg, you can't keep stopping and starting during the middle of this story, I could feel my blood pressure spike each time!

@LoftyPursuits

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I thought that made this one special. I don't normally but I did that with intent and affect

I knew exactly where this was going! I've often wondered why they don't feature THIS story in Olde Timey Period Pieces -- it's so much more interesting than endless speculation about Jack the Ripper. As you pointed out, this has a lasting effect on food safety to this day.

Here in UK many Humbugs have a chewie toffee/caramel centre. A variety of Humbug, the Everton mint, is always black and white, because it matches the Everton Football(soccer) Club has a black and white striped shirt, and is pillow shaped.

I always enjoy watching your candy videos. They legit boost my serotonin levels and I always learn something new. Legit this place is a bucket list place for me.

Have you ever heard of G-Shaft candy? I think you would be fascinated by the flavor and story behind how the candy came about.

The fact that it was okay back then to even use plaster dust as a sugar substitute is chilling enough.

@mightyfilm

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@@CaliMel184 The worst part is they could have made those awful "candy sticks" (the things that used to be candy cigarettes) out of plaster all along and no one would know the difference. Well, no that's not true. They'd probably taste better.

@frogsnack7072

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That was how bakers extended the dough in their bread as well.

We have really been enjoying our last order. The humbugs are to die for. The pumpkin spice candy really blew my mind. Like essens of a great sweet potato casserole. Keep up tue good work and we will keep ordering. We also got some candy canes but waiting till Christmas for that treat.

Calling in from Iceland. After years of observing and enjoying, I have to say it aloud, your videos are fantastic! Great for us chefs to admire and the knowledge you bring is inspiring. Thank you. I really hope I will be able to visit Tallahassee one day and get some sweets 🥰

@MrHeadcrab

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ó flott að sjá annan íslending hérna

ooooo when I get paid... **edit: I"M SO EXCITED!! I just order some candy for me and my sister who got me in to candy so many years ago. Her name being Rose, i got her the Crystal Rose, and a few others, as well as cotton candy humbugs for myself. I've been a follower of the channel for years and am now in a place where i can afford your sweet treats(+ shipping to Canada, not your fault). Hoping they make it before Chirstmas, but were Ukrainian so...you got till the 7th of January lol. Even then, I wouldn't be upset, and neither would she.

@krissp8712

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Slava Ukraini. I hope Canada isn't too cold this time of year!

The silence after the 12 pounds of arsenic was pretty intense. Good candy.

I love how educational your videos are! And I love your store!

I have never heard that story and I live less than an hour from Bradford. How tragic! It's interesting to learn how our laws evolved but heart-breaking that so many people died for it to happen.

Hi Lofty Pursuits! I found out about you guys when that wired video came out, and I've watched it probably once a month every month since then, and I just discovered you had a youtube channel! I've tried making candy before, and the best I've gotten was this glass looking stuff that I broke with a wooden spoon. I am in love with these videos, they're just so amazing! I wish I could buy your candy so much, it looks so good! Have a great day guys!

Arsenic didn't just get into food by accident. Scheele's Green, or copper hydrogen arsenite, was an early artificial green colour developed in the 1770s. It was far superior in colour and durability to earlier green colours, so it was widely used for dying fabrics, paper and paint - and in candy. Despite the toxic nature of arsenic being well-known from the 1830s onwards, Scheele's Green only really fell out of favour in the 1860s.

@krissp8712

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Was that why absinthe was often contaminated and toxic?

@mikerichards6065

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@@krissp8712 I don’t believe so, absinthe usually got its colour from chlorophyll. It’s toxicity was sensationalised in the late 19th and early 20th Century and thought to be linked to thujone which is a minor (admittedly toxic) component of wormwood. But it was mostly a moral panic - Max Miller over at Tasting History has an excellent video about absinthe. In reality thujone isn’t likely to ever have been in high enough concentration to cause problems. I also wouldn’t rule out bad distillation of spirits so they were contaminated with the hideously toxic methanol.

These are arriving at my house in an hour, I cannot wait but I must! Very excited, and my 3 year old loves your videos, so he will be getting some image candy for Christmas, and my husband will have green apple sours.

I really didn't know about the story, thanks for sharing Greg

My order is coming today with the Humbugs and some candy canes. I am excited! One small request, would it be possible for you to make a citrus mix without the grapefruit? I need to avoid all things grapefruit (juice, extract, flavorings) because of medications but I love citrus candy.

i feel bad for how loudly i laughed at "12 pounds of arsenic" oh my god 😭

Awesome Humbug collection lofty pursuits

Mint candy is my favorite kind of candy, I wish it was more popular outside of the xmas season.

Humbugs will always be that first kind of boiled sweet I remember liking as a child, I spent a lot of time on the UKs coast during the summer so thats probably in part why as Rock makers would often make them alongside their normal wares, I dunno if it's a country thing or what but Humbugs would often be 2 shades of brown rather than white and red, the very similar Everton mint black and white with spearmint oddly red and green the same as when they made rock in that flavour (Peppermint rock was usually always pink).

@atomictraveller

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i get waitrose brand mint humbugs on amazon to the u.s. which are accordingly shaded and have the proper butter toffee center which are like the ones i remember my grandfather enjoying in south wales many years ago. everton centers are a bit malty.

Arsenic is caustic, so it makes sense that the candymaker's fingers would tingle after working with it. Arsenical dyes were used in fabrics, artificial flowers, printing inks, paints, wallpapers, ans many other places. Just being exposed to it could harm people, as a visiting ambassador discovered after spending a night in a green bedroom while visiting Queen Victoria. Though arsenic is mostly associated with green, it was present in many colours of dye.

So zart ,so unschuldig ,so candymaking ,so süss and sweets !

My god there's just something so funny about the phrase "and he bought 12 pounds of arsenic" xD

I used this to show my fiance that it was a shape. He was very confused and I had to educate it. It was slightly against his will

Awesome Video lofty pursuits

Absolutely lovely stuff

What a fascinating story! P.S. you have a typo in your description... I assume it is meant to be poisoning not poising?

Arndale is manchester! 😉 Bradford has Kirkgate though, if that's what you meant?

I'm impressed that I guessed what the mistake was before you stated it. My goodness, what a terrible mistake.

It's a shame I'm halfway across the world from your shop 😭

This candy looks tasty. Good job.

Ooh! Do the wintergreen ones spark when you bite them, like the lifesavers do?

What a story :O Greetings from the Netherlands!

You guys should make more no food coloring/no corn syrup. They always sell out way to quickly.

@LoftyPursuits

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They don't, that's the problem. They often go bad and we have to throw some out almost every batch.

I always love your history lessons. But this is the first time I've ever said, "oh shit!" while watching a video. When you said the powder was arsenic. 😳 I'd imagine all the people involved lived with an irreconcilable guilt until the day they died.

interesting info!!

At 7:27 he mentions the patent but never got back to it 😞

I'm from Bradford, this is a true story.

In the original humbug video there was a version of “straighten up and fly right” playing in the background that i could not seem to find, does anybody know who that was?

@LoftyPursuits

Жыл бұрын

The band was called Bounce House. I think I recorded it in my store when they were playing.

Greg here, keeping the X in XMAS!

The previous Humbug video is actually #18

Mine just came in and they did not disappoint! Don't suppose you might do a cinnamon version in the future, would you?

@LoftyPursuits

Жыл бұрын

Anything is possible

For some reason I’m not surprised. There’s a reason they say “our regulations are written in blood.”

Question: in all the image candy we’ve bought, the white color that you get from pulling on the hook turns into what looks like just compressed sugar crystals while the non-pulled sugar on the outside is nice and smooth and glassy. Why is that?

@kimorourke9988

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The candy turning white happens because tiny little air bubbles get trapped in the sugar. What you describe as compressed crystals is actually a network of all those bubbles. This dissolves faster than unpulled candy, and thus gives a more intense flavour.

@ferretyluv

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@@kimorourke9988 I think you misunderstand. I don’t mean when he’s working with the sugar. I mean after it’s shipped. The inside of image candy is all granular while the outside is all hard. In the drops and humbugs, it’s solid and smooth throughout. That’s what I’m wondering about.

You should advertise these with "Now 100% Arsenic-free!" on the labels.

An interesting process to watch, but I spent the whole video waiting to see how the caramel was put in the centre. =(

I've got a bag in my cart -- can I check out as a guest or do I absolutely have to make an account?

Is it possible to make some lamb flavored Humbugs? Then they would be Baaah Humbugs.

Is there a particular reason why one stripe is wider than the others?

@LoftyPursuits

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It's tradition for peppermint. One thick stripe, three thin ones. But that always leaves the question is it a candy with white stripes, or a candy with red stripes?

Well Greg, as much as I'd like for the smell to permeate all the way over here, I really don't think aroma's spread 7657 km :p But maybe I'm wrong, and a christmas miracle will happen.

In Sweden we call them “polka pigs” for some reason.

@LoftyPursuits

Жыл бұрын

Polka gris. I really want to visit Gretna.

@LoftyPursuits

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And I also know part of the story about why they're called that

I’m going to say that the good part of the story is that we now have food regulations 😮

It's a guess by someone who hasn't done any research yet, but the humbugs might have earned the "oriental cut" nickname as they looked like a long queue braid from Qing China. The resemblance is quite canny after seeing the humbugs leaving the machine.

Greg, have you thought about adding cinnamon humbug to this mix?

@LoftyPursuits

Жыл бұрын

Once you put cinnamon and everything tastes like cinnamon. The oil transfers too easily. We saw to keep cinnamon its own bags because of this

@samanthaevans4231

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@@LoftyPursuits oh okay. That makes sense. I didn't know that though. But I see now.

He bought 12 pounds of WHAT

@lynwood5991

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Exactly

Könnt ihr auch himbeerevanillewaldmeister kreiern,

Red, green, and blue.

I do love my nineteenth century candy. But not THAT nineteenth century...

Interesting - then why are they called Bismarck in Europe?

@LoftyPursuits

Жыл бұрын

Have not heard that term for them before. But probably because the United States comes from a British tradition. Most of our names were inherited from the UK

Candy killed people! Gotta love a happy/sad thing

YUMMY

Greg macht wieder schnoopzeugs !

not slavery, the tarrifs

First

for the love of all that is holy please stop saying double u double u double u when you say your website name.

@LoftyPursuits

Жыл бұрын

No. The domain is so short people miss it. I get almost twice the clicks when I say it vs when I don't. Foolish not to .