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

Candy facts you probably didn't know!

1.) Dum Dum's mystery flavor is always a combination of two different flavors. Instead of cleaning out the flavoring from the machine before switching to the next flavor they just let it run and sell the mixture as the mystery flavor. That means it will always be different!

2.) There was a hotline set up for parents that were concerned about their children exploding because of eating a combination of Pop Rocks and soda. You can check it on the Pop Rocks FAQ.

3.) Tootsie Rolls were once marketed as a health food.

4.) Sugar isn't what rots your teeth! The streptococcus bacteria in your mouth like to munch on the sugar but the acid they secrete is what rots your teeth. Luckily saliva cuts down the acid so if you have five candy bars its better to eat them all at once instead of throughout the week because you will produce more saliva to cut the acid down. Moral of the story, eat all your candy at once!

5.) Nestle originally sold baby formula

6.) Candy is a health scape goat. 100 years ago doctors blamed candy for the spread of Polio.

7.) In 1943 Tootsie Roll created an advertisement featuring two super heroes: Captain Tootsie and his sidekick Rollo.

8.) The candy forest and chocolate river in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was actually edible! The producer wanted the kids and parents to have a genuine reaction! The only thing that wasn't edible was the tea cup Gene Wilder bit into. Later it was made with real sugar for the scene. 

9.) The PB max bar was discontinued because the executive and Mars family member Alfred Poe had a distaste for peanut butter. 

-SugarPop's Candy and Soda

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

Now and Later fun facts!

Now and Later Fun facts!

• Although the most common flavors you see are the Cherry, Watermelon, Strawberry, and Grape  there are actually twelve flavors in production. 
• The production of Now and Later's can date back to around 1862
• The slogan "Hard 'N Fruity Now and Soft 'N Chewy Later" found on each square's wrapping, replaced the original "Eat Some Now, Kid."
• It is was a ten-cent candy bar of nine beige-colored squares
• It was originally produced by a woman- Josephine Klein 
• Now and Later was named after the fact that consumers could enjoy most of the candy "now" and still have some for later! 

Here is a list of all the Now and Later candy flavors ever produced. Would you want to try all of these?

Almond Apple Apple gum Banana Banana/Strawberry split Black Radberry (raspberry) Blue Radberry Bubble Gum Candy Canes Cherry Cherry Apple Cherry Cola Cherry/Apple Split Cherry/Limeade split Chocolate CocoBanana-Rasmataz Cola Corn Coffee Bean Cotton Candy Cream Soda Dreamberry Grape Green Tingleberry Jumbleberry Hulaberry Kiwi Kollapse Lemon/Berry Split Lime Mango Melon Metallica Berry Mystery Mix Omega Orange Peach Smash Peppermint Pickled Cabbage Pineapple Pink Lemonade Pizza Pizzazz Rainbow Raspberry Red Radberry Red White and Blueberry Rum Caramel Sour Soft (Orange, Strawberry, Raspberry) Spooky Sausage Strawberry Tapioca Surprise Thriller Tickle Me PinkBerry Tropical Lemonade Tropical Punch Tropical Fever Vanilla Ice Watermelon Wild Berry Wasabi Blast