Creamy milk chocolate, roasted peanuts, gooey caramel and
marshmallow nougat, a true “Southern Treat” as the company puts it. The Goo Goo
cluster revolutionized candy bars as we know them, it was one of the first
candies that consisted of more then one principal ingredient! This delicious
candy was first produced in 1912, in Nashville, TN at Standard Candy Company in
a copper kettle. The name for the Goo
Goo cluster comes from the idea that “Goo goo” is the first words a baby tries
to speak, so, “It’s so good, people will ask for it from birth!”
What makes this candy interesting is not only where its
ingredients combination really un heard of for one candy bar, but also its
shape. Goo Goo clusters are circular in a time where square and rectangle
candies were the norm. Due to their round shape Goo Goo clusters where first
shown un wrapped and had to be displayed under a glass dome in stores, soon
after that women in the factory would hand wrap each Goo Goo cluster until
eventually machinery took over. At Standard Candy in Nashville today they can
produce 20,000 Goo Goo clusters in an hour!
-SugarPop's Candy and Soda Shop
248 N Main St Mooresville, NC 28115
(704) 746-3166
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