Red Hots or Cinnamon Imperials?

Red Hots or Cinnamon Imperials are a candy that everyone is familiar with. With their bright red color and spicy cinnamon smell and taste its hard to overlook this delicious candy! 

This spicy candy has been around for ages! Ferrara Pan Candy company was the first to manufacture these candies under the name of Cinnamon Imperials in 1932. Ferrara Pan Candy company is still the one and only company to manufacture the now Red Hots, once Cinnamon Imperials. Cinnamon Imperials are now sold as a general brand by many candy distributers.

Since Red Hots have been around since 1932 they have a large fan base! Not only can you eat these candies in their natural form but people are now using them to spice up their Jell-O or apple sauce to give it a nice spicy cinnamon flavor! Do you have any special Red Hot recipes?

-SugarPop's Candy&Soda shop
248 N Main St 
Mooresville, NC 28115 (704) 799-0959

Easter candy facts!

Easter is right around the corner! Do you have your easter baskets ready?

1.) Chocolate bunnies are a must have for any easter basket! Or maybe you prefer Peeps? More than 700 million Peeps, marshmallow bunnies, and marshmallow eggs are bought each easter season! This makes these tasty marshmallow treats the most popular non-chocolate item.

2.) 90 million chocolate bunnies are produced every year! Do you prefer milk or dark chocolate?

3.) Chocolate bunnies should be eaten ears first, according to 76% of Americans. Five percent said bunnies should be eaten feet first, while 4% favored eating the tail first.

4.) In 1953, it took 27 hours to create a marshmallow Peep. Now it takes about six minutes and about 5 million assorted Peeps are made each day in preparation for Easter.

5.) If we took all the Jellybeans that American's consume on Easter and lined them up end to end it would circle the earth nearly three times!

6.) What is your favorite Jellybean to eat on Easter? Children voted for their favorite jellybeans and the votes were: cherry (20%), strawberry (12%), grape (10%), lime (7%), and blueberry (6%).

7.) 70% of Easter candy bought is chocolate. 

8.) Easter is the second most popular candy holiday right after Halloween, beating out Valentines day by almost more than a billion dollars!


Candy isn't just for eating anymore! Try dyeing your easter eggs with some candy this year!

Now&Later's
-12 Now&Later candies (separate colors)
-2 cups of water
-1 tbsp of vinegar
Boil 2 cups of water with 1 tbsp of vinegar, add the Now&Laters and let simmer for 15 minutes. Strain into a mug or dish for dyeing.

Red Hots
-7 ounces of Red Hots (3/4 cups + 2 tablespoons)
-2 cups of water
-1 tbsp of vinegar
Boil 2 cups of water with 1 tbsp of vinegar, add the Red Hots and let simmer for 15 minutes. Strain into a mug or dish for dyeing

-SugarPop's Candy & Soda shop

248 N Main St, Mooresville, NC 28115
(704) 799-0959

Salt water taffy!

Many people enjoy salt-water taffy, but it was created by accident! In 1883 David Bradley’s candy store was flooded by a major storm and his taffy got soaked in salty Atlantic Ocean water. When a young girl came into the store asking for taffy Bradley jokingly offered her his new “salt-water taffy” but the young girl loved it and the name stuck. It wasn’t until Joseph Franlinger boxed up the candy and sold it as an Atlantic City souvenir that it became popular. Enoch James was Franlinger’s first major competition because he perfected the recipe making it less sticky and easier to unwrap, sold the candy in bite size pieces and mechanized the pulling process for taffy.  Although the first salt water taffy was sold because it was soaked in salt water, there is no salt water in modern salt water taffy today.

Customers buying salt water taffy in Atlantic city

Taffy Puller

-SugarPop's Candy and Soda shop

248 N Main St Mooresville, NC 28115

(704) 746-3166 

Good & Plenty!

We now know the licorice based candy coated candy as Good & Plenty but it wasn’t always named that! In 1893 the Quaker City Confectionary Company in Philadelphia first produced Good & Plenty under the name of Good & Planty.  It holds the title of being the oldest candy to be branded in the United States! In the 1950’s Good & Plenty got its first commercial advertisement with this commercial!

-SugarPop's Candy and Soda Shop

248 N Main St Mooresville, NC 28115

(704) 746-3166 

Milky Way!

There’s no one who doesn’t know Mar’s Milky Way candy bar, delicious chocolate-malt nougat topped with caramel and covered in milk chocolate! With such a great combination how could you go wrong with this candy?

The Milky Way was first created in 1923 by Frank C. Mars and was named after a popular milkshake, no the Earth’s galaxy!  In 1926 the Milky Way bar was originally sold as a two-piece bar, one with chocolate nougat and one vanilla but was separated 1936 were separated.  The common vanilla nougat Milky Way bar was branded as many different names such as “Forever Yours”, “ Milky Way Dark”, and “Milky Way Midnight”, but now it is simply just Milky Way.

In different countries the Milky Way comes in many different varieties such as Milky Way Crisp rolls in the UK, fruit flavored Milky Ways in Australia and ice cream Milky Way’s that are offered here in the U.S.!

-SugarPop's Candy and Soda shop

-SugarPop's Candy and Soda Shop

248 N Main St Mooresville, NC 28115

(704) 746-3166 

Goo Goo Cluster!

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 

The Sky Bar!

In the 1930’s chocolate variety was very slim, that’s why when Necco came up with this unique chocolate bar they knew they had to make it special. Produced and announced to the public by dramatic sky writing in 1938, the Sky Bar is one of the most unique chocolate candy bars Necco has made. Filled with four different centers of caramel, vanilla, peanut, and fudge, its hard not to like this tasty chocolate bar! Not even 10 years later Americans would once again be “wowed” by the Sky bar, on VE-Day it was one of the only six working and illuminated signs in New York’s Time Square.

Necco is still a very popular candy company and still produces candy but their Sky Bar has become quite elusive. Many people are surprised and delighted when they see that here at SugarPop’s we carry such an iconic and elusive candy bar!

-SugarPop's Candy and Soda Shop 

248 North Main Street 

Mooresville, NC 28115 

(704) 799-0959