![]() So, it's a sort of popcorn kind of experience. "When freeze-dried, it acts like popcorn and the inside pops out and the candy becomes light and crispy. "It typically starts with a chewy candy," Laura Foster said. The Fosters (Kyle is a physics graduate from the University of Waterloo Laura has a culinary background) have added commercial food equipment to make unique freeze-dried candy in their commercial kitchen space. You may have noticed television commercials for the 1960s' Haribo gummies featuring adult business executives in a corporate boardroom with children's voices dubbed in the German company opened a manufacturing plant in Wisconsin in 2020. There's something about candies and childhood and nostalgia that we try to enable here," he said.Ĭompanies have been trying to enable that "fix," too. ![]() "People are always happy to see the classic candy that has been around for ever. Over at Sweet!, Munn says his candy offers are giving people that "fix" of childhood memory that is the essence of his business. German company Haribo, and its wide variety of gummies, has seen a rise in popularity lately thanks to the recent opening of a North American plant in 2020. We always enjoy taking our own kids to different candy stores, and we have great memories of those ourselves," Kyle Foster said. "We wanted to do something more fun for work than we were doing before, and a candy store idea was an obvious choice. Having decided the moment was right to make a career change, they're also filling a candy gap that was created when Sugar Mountain closed.įor the Fosters, the interest in candy and sweets was always there, but they also noticed a large demographic of sweet-toothed shoppers keen for retro candy, including themselves. I'll go back to the candy store with you now and take my walk later. Just a bit farther up the road on King Street, co-owners Laura Foster and Kyle Foster opened Midnight Snack in uptown Waterloo about a month ago. In Waterloo, featuring thousands of sweets and snacks from around the world as well as lots of memorable retro candy, Sweet Life Candy and Pop Shop opened at 354 King Street North in January 2022. "That's the sort of thing that happens here." "Kids had them in their school lunches back then and 20 years later are coming in for them," Munn said. These candy-coated biscuit sticks come in dozens of flavors today, but for years the original chocolate flavor invented by Yoshiaki Koma in Japan in 1966 was. Sweet! Candy and Ice Cream owner Bryan Munn pulls on the nostalgic heart strings with his old-fashioned themed shop.
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