Nostalgic Ribbon Candy ❤️🎄🍬 Ribbon candy originated in 19th-century Europe as a labor-intensive Christmas confection, made by hand-shaping pulled sugar into delicate, wavy ribbons around a thumb, often as shop decorations. In the 1880s, inventors in the Northeastern U.S. created hand-cranked crimping machines to mimic these curls, speeding production, though it remained slow until automated rollers and cutting in the 1940s allowed mass production. It became a nostalgic holiday staple, symboliz

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Today we made fruit and friendly ribbon candy for our local customers. This candy is very thin and we don't ship it because it's so fragile. Our local customers wait all year for this. Today's flavor line up includes strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, orange, lime, lemon and butterscotch. Your won't find it on our website because we don't ship it and it's no fair to tease you with something you can't have! | Hercules Candy Co