1 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,320 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Savor production of iHeart Radio. I'm 2 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:12,799 Speaker 1: Annie Reese and I'm Lauren Vogelbaum. And today we have 3 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: a classic episode for you about candy hearts. Yes, and 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 1: this one was a fun one. I had a good 5 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: time researching this. Oh yeah, this is this one is 6 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 1: super fun because first of all, it gets into, um, 7 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: the history of these things goes further back than I thought, 8 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: and so you get not only modern interpretations of what's 9 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: sweet or romantic or funny, but you get like those 10 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 1: Victorian and Edwardian ones too. And I'm like, oh no, 11 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: oh dear, oh dear, it is correct. Yeah, that's one 12 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: of my If you research the history of Valentine's Day, 13 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: which as we record this it is February one, it 14 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: was the month of Valentine's Day. Um, there's just a 15 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: really funny kind of disturb big history of like the 16 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,959 Speaker 1: messages people used to give, like salty Valentines, which are 17 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: just insults people would give that would have destroyed me 18 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: as a child, I know, but they're funny now they 19 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 1: are pretty funny. I don't want I don't want them 20 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: to come back, but it made me laugh. Yeah. Um, 21 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: I will say, well, Okay, so so since since this 22 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: episode came out. Episode came out in UM January of 23 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,400 Speaker 1: UM in I believe July of that year June or July, 24 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: the Echo Company actually went bankrupt and was purchased by 25 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: Spangler Candy Um, who has brought back the Sweethearts brand 26 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:43,039 Speaker 1: never fear but but yeah they're their Their theme for 27 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: this year is um teamwork and encouragement. Yes. I saw 28 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: some very very funny articles that were like even the 29 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: conversation Heart snow we all need we all need a 30 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: boost right now. Um. Yeah. So so among their new 31 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: sayings include a way to go high five and crush it, 32 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: which away from me with your high five it's a 33 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: pandemic elbow bump at most. Come on. Also crush it. 34 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh man, finally candy that talks to me 35 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 1: like my corporate boss. That's perfect I always wanted. Yeah. Yeah, 36 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 1: there's definitely some really fun takes people had about like 37 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: what they really should have said, is you vax or 38 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 1: things like that. If you want to look that up 39 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: you can. I also find it funny these candies that 40 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: are so polarizing because I was just searching, like anything 41 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: new with Candy Hearts conversation Hearts, and there's so many 42 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: articles that are either saying can we not just retire these? 43 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: Aren't they the worst candy ever? Or other people on 44 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: the other side saying like, oh, thank goodness they came back. 45 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: And then there's also I have this page up right now, 46 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: there's like a candy Hearts available for purchase that I'm 47 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: assuming is like classic that's over two d there's another 48 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: one that's under two dollars. So people have varying strong 49 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:24,359 Speaker 1: opinions about this candy, which is great. We love strong opinions. 50 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: We do we do um and I think we get 51 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,679 Speaker 1: into that in this episode. Oh yeah, Oh no, I 52 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: cut out the gate hot but yes, so let us 53 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: allow former Annie and Lauren to take it away. Hello, 54 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: and welcome to food Stuff. I'm an Eries and I'm 55 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: Lauren vocal Bomb. And uh one of my very least 56 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: favorite holidays is coming up as we record this episode. 57 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: I wish I was clever and could think of a 58 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: joke holiday that it's not Valentine's Day, which is the 59 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: answer ground Dog's Day. Screw that Groundhog? True? Right? Uh no, no, 60 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: I mean that's an excellent movie. Be ground dogs are terrific. Animals. 61 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: It's true, that's true. Valentine's Day is awful, though, yes, 62 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: or as it's sometimes known, singles Awareness Day are sad 63 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 1: or Valentine's Day, depending on you. You know what you 64 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: like to celebrate our February fourteenth as I know it, 65 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: because I usually forget it's happening. This might be why 66 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: some of my previous three relationships ended because their birthdays. 67 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:42,720 Speaker 1: We're on Valentine's Day. Three in a their birthdays from 68 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: a Valentine's Day, and it was a lot of pressure. 69 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: You know, if Valentine's Day is coming and I don't 70 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 1: want to celebrate it, and it's their birthday and I 71 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 1: forget both and because I oh, I call it obligation 72 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: day sometimes. But hey, Valentine's Day, if any of you 73 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 1: like it, that's totally your bag. It can be great. 74 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 1: I feel like candy or you know, a candy is 75 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: is a thing that I enjoy, These little rose things. 76 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 1: She'd give them me. That was nice. Oh that's sweet. 77 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,359 Speaker 1: Yeah you're saying about candy. Candy, Yeah, type of candy 78 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: that I don't like. I'm just talking. I'm just I'm 79 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: just wenching about things today aren't conversation hearts are awful. 80 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about today, and that's our topic. Yeah, yeah, 81 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: I mean it's great to talk about something you're you 82 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 1: get to hate on when you hate it, I guess. 83 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: I guess hate is a strong word. I just don't 84 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 1: understand why they're candy or popular. Yeah, I don't really 85 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: like them either. But in case you don't know what 86 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: we're talking about, conversation hearts. Conversation hearts. They're like those chalky, 87 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: colorful heart candies that have messages on them, usually in red, yes, 88 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:47,679 Speaker 1: usually in red, and they sometimes go by conversation hearts, 89 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: love hearts, message hearts, or yeah sweethearts. So a lot 90 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 1: of a lot of names with hearts in there. They 91 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:58,359 Speaker 1: traditionally say things like be mine are kiss me, but 92 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 1: nowadays they might say something like tweeked me. In the 93 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 1: past they said fax me, tax me. I absolutely think 94 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: they should bring that back. I know. And can you imagine, 95 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: like get this heart, like I'm going to fax him later, 96 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: Like I don't know how romantic. You're just waiting to 97 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 1: hear that awful phone now sound Oh yeah, uh yea. 98 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: Some have Emoji UM, the main company that makes them 99 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: in America and Echo. Sweethearts print some eighty sayings every year, 100 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: about thirty traditional ones, twenty totally new ones, and the 101 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: rest is a mix of popular ones from recent years. 102 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,559 Speaker 1: And in two thousand four, a Michigan man went all 103 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: over to get enough marry Me sweethearts to propose to 104 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,919 Speaker 1: his girlfriends. Eventually he just couldn't find enough, so he 105 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 1: emailed the company and they just sent him a box 106 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 1: of Marymies for for free. Yeah, it'spparently they're like officially 107 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: unofficial corporate policy. If you take the time to write them. 108 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 1: I mean, don't abuse this power, you guys. Yeah, because 109 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: then you'll be one of the reasons they had to 110 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: get rid of it. You don't want to be that. 111 00:06:57,480 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 1: You don't want to be that guy. But his wife, 112 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:01,359 Speaker 1: also in that way, got him a matching gift for 113 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: their wedding. This this Michigan man, his his wife got 114 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: him a box full of sweethearts that say I do Oh. 115 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: They also make sugar free sweethearts with splenda, dazzled tarts 116 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:18,559 Speaker 1: with a sparkly sour dust coating dazzled tarts. There's also 117 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: Sweethearts on Espanol, and you can customize your own. I 118 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: looked into this, and uh, it's quite expensive. You can 119 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: fit five letters on the top row and four on 120 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: the bottom and less one of those letters is w 121 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: w W and then you have to knock a letter 122 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: off eat ro mhm. And this it might be the 123 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: most surprising fact of the episode to me. They are 124 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: the best selling Valentine's Day candy, even when you include 125 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: box chocolate. Yeah, they account for the Valentine's Day candy markets. 126 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: What I know, I mean, they're fine? Are are they? Are? They? 127 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: I mean the novelty of getting a message on there, 128 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, they're certainly not chocolate, no, And 129 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: I will say they They're very specific about boxed chocolate 130 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: and the facts I read about it, So maybe it's 131 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: not necessarily chocolate in general, but a right, yeah anyway, 132 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: But that number does mean something because here in the States, 133 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: as often, Americans spent a collective one point seven billion 134 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: on candy for Valentine's Day, and each year eight billion 135 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: sweetheart candies are produced, and a large chunk of those 136 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: are sold between New Year's Day and Valentine's Day, like 137 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: basically all of them, right, pretty much like they produced 138 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: them year round to sell them in six weeks exactly, 139 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: and this is enough to go from Rome, Italy to Valentine, Arizona. 140 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: There's a Valentine, Arizona. Apparently twenty times one hundred thousand 141 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: pounds of sweethearts. I saw an interview with a Neco 142 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:59,199 Speaker 1: marketing director from reporting they make ten to fourteen million 143 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: owns a year, but that hundred thousand number is reported 144 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:08,679 Speaker 1: on Echo's website. Who can we trust? Conspiracy everywhere everywhere 145 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: we go, like it's a lot of candy hearts. Either 146 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: way it is. It is so um. What's in these things? 147 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: Lauren Well sugar or an artificial sugar substitute as the case, 148 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:24,439 Speaker 1: maybe corn syrup, corn starch, gelatine, gums for adhesive properties, 149 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: flavors and colors. You mix all that up into a dough. 150 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: Feed the dough through a machine that presses it flat, 151 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: Stamp on the lettering, cut the heart shapes out of 152 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: the of the flat dough, Dry the hearts in a 153 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: drying tunnel, and then repeat with a bunch of other 154 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: colors and flavors. You mix them up, you box them. 155 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: Apparently the machine that they used to mix them together 156 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: is colloquially referred to as the rocket launcher. That sounds 157 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 1: very epic. Um and I at the video you can 158 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: watch online. There's videos of this of the candy hearts 159 00:09:57,760 --> 00:09:59,719 Speaker 1: being manufactured, and it is kind of hit and a 160 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 1: tie things, very colorful. It is. Yeah, I don't know 161 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: if rocket launchers what I'd call it, but it's colorful. 162 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: M hm um. And and they do. They do, in fact, 163 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: have different flavors. I know that chalky might seem to 164 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: be the base level across all of them, but uh, 165 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 1: supposedly the flavors range from lemon orange, extreme tangerine, pink lemonade, apple, 166 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: sour apple, green apple, blue raspberry, strawberry, RedBerry, grape, wild berry, grape, 167 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: and fruit punch, depending on what variety you're dealing with. 168 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:41,679 Speaker 1: There are also single type boxes of chocolate flavored hearts. Oh, 169 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,319 Speaker 1: that's a lot more flavors. I thought there would be five. 170 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:48,199 Speaker 1: Maybe you've got all the different different different types of boxes. 171 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: You've got those dazzled Tart am intrigued by that. They 172 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 1: have retired a few flavors over the years, like mint 173 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 1: and banana mint separately. There it wasn't like a mint 174 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: banana laver that I'm personally aware of. Okay, okay. They 175 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: also retire messages every year and in order to make 176 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 1: room for new ones, and some of those new ones 177 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: every year run along a theme. They have themes for 178 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: each year. Prior year's themes include Loves in the Forecast 179 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 1: with messages like get my Drift and heat wave Okay, 180 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: I might appreciate that. Um. There was the Game of 181 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: Love with messages like dream Team and number one Fan. 182 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 1: There's Fashion Forward with vogue and tray chic, and animal 183 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 1: Attraction which included perfect and take a walk, take a 184 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:48,679 Speaker 1: walk see I would be offended, how dare you candy heart? 185 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 1: And then throw it down? But this ties into a 186 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,680 Speaker 1: long standing tradition of of kind of kind of mean 187 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: it does it does? And speaking of I was researching this, 188 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: I found the best slash worst old timey tradition. I 189 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: bet a lot of you have heard of this, but 190 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: it was my first time encountering it. In the nineteenth century, 191 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:11,960 Speaker 1: if you had a suitor he wanted a ditch, or 192 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 1: just generally someone in your life you didn't like, you 193 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: might send them of Vinegar Valentine, Vinegar Valentine, Vinegar Valentine 194 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 1: heard of these. I think I think I've heard of that, 195 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,439 Speaker 1: but I hadn't ever looked into it. Oh man, These 196 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: were cheap cards that usually had these really uglier rude 197 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: images on them, captioned with an insult of some sort. 198 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: If the person really didn't like you, they might write up, 199 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: in detail, exquisite detail, all of your flaws as they 200 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,559 Speaker 1: saw them. And man, and they say that people are 201 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:44,959 Speaker 1: mean on on the internet. Goodness, I know you can 202 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 1: look these up online and most of them were directed 203 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: at women and they were so mean. Yeah. I I 204 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: thought of it like if Spencer's made a Hallmark card. 205 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: If you guys know what Spencers are, I don't know 206 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: that they're that common anymore. Zeus, I guess is another 207 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: brand like that. Yeah. They would say things like you 208 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 1: are a nerve destroyer. When a pig's getting slaughtered, the 209 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: noise that it makes is sweeter by far than your 210 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 1: trills and shakes and the howling of cats in the 211 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: backyard at night, compared with your singings a dream of delight, 212 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: Oh wow? Yeah, Or you saucy puss. I am afraid 213 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 1: that at last you'll die a made. Let nothing tempt 214 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 1: you to be witty. You cannot and you are not pretty. 215 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, But here's one. Here's one for for the men. Okay, hey, 216 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 1: lover boy, the place for you is home upon the shelf, 217 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,439 Speaker 1: because the only one who'd kiss you is a jackass 218 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 1: like yourself. Oh snap or another. Your bright shining paint 219 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 1: is seen at all shows and invariable down and the 220 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 1: bald headed rose, where you make conspicuous by your tender care, 221 00:13:56,679 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: your true ardent love for that one lonesome hair man. 222 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: I know these are tough. Yeah yeah. They When they 223 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: were popular, they count accounted for over half of all 224 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: cards sales on Valentine's Day And I laugh, but I'm 225 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: really glad this went away because if I had gotten no, 226 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: you would have enjoyed me. Yeah. However, as a joke 227 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: with a friend could still be fun. Oh yeah, yeah, 228 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: um for for a while. To spare Ink, which is 229 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: known for its anti motivation posters, yeah, made a line 230 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: of bitter sweets with messages like mutual disgust and p 231 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 1: S I love me see I. I did this one 232 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: and it really backfired on me because I gave somebody 233 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 1: something that said, um, you will fail or something, and 234 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: then he failed his test. Then I felt really bad. 235 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 1: Not your faults, I know, but it wasn't great. Apparently, 236 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 1: NECO still receives consumer suggestions for breakup hearts inscribed with 237 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: stuff like get a prenup or call my lawyer. However, 238 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 1: even traditional nice sweethearts can be turned to less than 239 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: loving purposes. Uh. They make a pointed appearance in Anne 240 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: of Green Gables from Once when nobody was looking, Gilbert 241 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 1: took from his desk a little pink candy heart with 242 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 1: a gold motto on it you are Sweet, and slipped 243 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: it under the curve of Ann's arm. Whereupon Anna Rose 244 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: took the pink heart gingerly between the tips of her fingers, 245 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: dropped it to the floor, ground it to powder beneath 246 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 1: her heel, and resumed her position without deigning to bestow 247 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: a glance on Gilbert. That's harsh. That is Valentine's Day drama. Yeah, 248 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: so there's reasons why we don't like this holiday. It's 249 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: fraught with peril and terror, it is, but you know 250 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: it's not fraught with peril and terror. What Lauren ad 251 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 1: breaks from were wonderful sponsor, and we're back, Thank you sponsor, Yes, 252 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: thank you. So history the first romantic message type candy 253 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: that we know of comes from eighteen twenties France, when 254 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: it wasn't uncommon to receive a bum ball on New 255 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: Year's Day that came with a message or story, possibly 256 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: romantic or subductive in nature. Yeah, that the rapper that 257 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: it came in the envelope might have something in there, 258 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: something written on the envelope share exactly. And in the 259 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: eighteen fifties in Britain you could find manufactured hard candies 260 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: that came with short printed messages like no, I won't 261 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: ask mama how romantic I like that. The eighteen fifties 262 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: British folks were definitely from the South. That's I just 263 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: had a whole meeting that devolved into who has the 264 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: most Southern accents? So I think it's on my on 265 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: the brain. But the temperance movement caused the whole thing 266 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 1: to fizzle out when they made and handed out their 267 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 1: own candies that said things like misery, sickness, and poverty 268 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: are the effect of drunkenness. Oh yeah, that's the damper 269 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 1: um things. Around the same time, in seven, Oliver Chase, 270 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: an English immigrant and pharmacists living in Boston, was looking 271 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: to get in on the through lozenge business. Throat lozenges 272 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 1: of course we're talking about Wait, what, why are we 273 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: talking about the throat lozenges? M This is a good question. 274 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 1: Lozenges were the shiny new darling of the medicine delivery world, 275 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:27,160 Speaker 1: and Chase wanted in on that action. And yes, we're 276 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 1: talking about another food stuff linked to the medical field. 277 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 1: These lozenges were kind of the spoonful of sugar or 278 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 1: the candy coating or even the gel capsule of the time. 279 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: You'd grind up your meds and add them to the 280 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:42,360 Speaker 1: sweet dough that, once dried, would melt in the patient's 281 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:48,120 Speaker 1: mouth or stomach. Right, But making lozenges wasn't an easy business, 282 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: nor was it cheap at the time. You had to 283 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,199 Speaker 1: make them by hand. Yeah, you had to grind up 284 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 1: and refined sugar with stabilizers like gums, with a mortar 285 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: and pestil to make the dough and then roll it 286 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: and add it into shapes. And Chase decided laws engine 287 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: making was in need of an American industrialization makeover, and 288 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 1: that he was the fellow to dut He came up 289 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: with this tabletop hand crake device that did it all. 290 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: It could grind and need and shape the ingredients into lozenges. 291 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 1: He realized fairly quickly that maybe the lozenge wasn't all 292 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 1: it was cracked up to be. But that candy business, though, 293 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 1: that's going places. In that same year seven he founded 294 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: Chase and Co. With one of his brother's silas. He 295 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 1: would patent a mill for powdering sugar into different grades 296 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:41,679 Speaker 1: of granularity in eighteen fifty one, and one of the 297 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: first things Chasing Co. Sold or disc with sugar and flavoring, 298 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: known as wafers. According to some sources, these things were 299 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: so popular Union soldiers carried them in their packs during 300 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: the Civil War, calling them hub wafers. They were cheap 301 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: and portable. Admiral Richard birds, so we thought, so he 302 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 1: bought two tons with him on his South Whole expedition. 303 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: They would become so incredibly popular for their lasting properties 304 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: and more on that in just a little bit. In 305 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: the context of sweethearts, Chase and Co. Started off selling 306 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 1: colloquials or cockles, which were sugar lausages pressed into the 307 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 1: shape of a shell with a note inside about what 308 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: your future would bring. Yeah, kind of fortune cookie esque. 309 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 1: They gained a lot of popularity at events like weddings, 310 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 1: where the message inside might jokingly say something like, please 311 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: send a lock of your hair by return mail. I 312 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 1: laughed so hard when I read that, because I don't know. 313 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 1: I hope that was a joke. I don't know it was. 314 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:53,120 Speaker 1: It was. It was a common like sweetheart thing, not 315 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: not sweethearts the candy, but to to give, to give 316 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: a lover or lock of your hair is like a keepsake. 317 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,119 Speaker 1: I guess I'm thinking of it in terms of the 318 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,679 Speaker 1: candy heart, where you might get it randomly. You know, 319 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: if I got that random request, you'd be like at anyway. 320 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 1: The company was also selling their lozenge makers and sugar grinders, 321 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: which helped them grow. Right and Oliver had another brother, 322 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:22,679 Speaker 1: Daniel Chase, and Daniel had been watching the success of 323 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: his brother's company and trying to figure out how he 324 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: could get in on it. And as the market for 325 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,959 Speaker 1: Valentine's Day cards grew, Daniel thought himself, what if we 326 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:34,159 Speaker 1: instead of printing the message on paper, we put it 327 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 1: directly on the candy. On the candy talk more about 328 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: that after one more quick break for a word from 329 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: our sponsor, and we're back, Thank you sponsor. So in 330 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 1: eighteen sixty six, Daniel Chase created an addition to his 331 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:06,120 Speaker 1: brother's machine that could stamp vegetable based food die onto 332 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: the tops of these pressed sugar lozenges with a with 333 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 1: a felt roller as the dough was being rolled through 334 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:15,640 Speaker 1: the cutter, and these were pretty big wafers at the time. 335 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:19,199 Speaker 1: Some of the original messages included Mary and white, you 336 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 1: have chosen right, married and pink, he will take to 337 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 1: drink married in satin, love will not be lasting? And 338 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 1: how long shall I have to wait? Please be considerate, 339 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:39,679 Speaker 1: Please be considerate, I think, Oh, no, that's great. I 340 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,120 Speaker 1: love those like old timey rhymes that don't work any 341 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 1: but don't work. Yeah. Oh, and here here's one that 342 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 1: was printed a like a riddle on both sides. A 343 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: question on one side, answer on the other. Why is 344 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 1: a stylish girl like a thrifty housekeeper? Why because she 345 00:21:55,520 --> 00:22:00,360 Speaker 1: makes a big bustle about a little waste. Oh, oh 346 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: my goodness. Um. But some of them had messages that 347 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 1: are still in use today, over a hundred years later. Um. 348 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: I mean these are the slightly more classic ones that 349 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 1: be mine, be good, be true, kiss me, stuff like that. Yeah. 350 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 1: These had all been made uh manually or with manually 351 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:25,199 Speaker 1: operated machines rather up until the eighteen seventies, which is 352 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: when Chasing Company began harnessing steam power to create their 353 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:33,440 Speaker 1: treats steam Power candy hearts. Oh but it wasn't hearts yet. 354 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,359 Speaker 1: We wouldn't get conversation candies and heart shapes for another 355 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:40,439 Speaker 1: forty years. They didn't debut until nineteen o two and 356 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 1: were among a series of shapes watches, horseshoes, baseball's stuff 357 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: like that. The heart is the shape that's stuck. Though 358 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: the whole line was called Necho's Sweet Talk, and these 359 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: shapes with the Neco name came out the year after. 360 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,160 Speaker 1: Chasing Company teamed up with two other candy companies, one 361 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 1: known for its chok What's In another that's specialized in 362 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 1: gum drops and gibs to compete with some of the 363 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 1: heavy hitters like Hershey and Wrigley. Together they voltrond into 364 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: the New England Confectionery Company, or Neco. And this might 365 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: never have happened if not free a couple of disasters 366 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 1: for the Chase brothers. Two of their buildings burned down 367 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 1: completely separate incidents in the eighteen seventies, one in the 368 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: Great Chicago Fire and one in Boston. Without this, they 369 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: might never have have teamed up and thus become big 370 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:34,119 Speaker 1: enough to attract the attention of a really important contract. 371 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 1: What contract? Well, Meanwhile, the American military had started putting 372 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:44,159 Speaker 1: candy in its soldiers rations, in with the idea that 373 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,160 Speaker 1: treats would improve morale and increased caloric uptake, which can 374 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,919 Speaker 1: be a problem when people are faced with too many 375 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: unappetizing foods. Yeah. Yeah. With an eye on Neco wafers 376 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: two year shelf life and imperviousness to both melting and freezing, 377 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: they became a common inclusion. The wafers were sent into 378 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 1: battle during the Spanish American War and World War One. 379 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 1: The government actually bought out Echo's entire year's worth of 380 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: wafer production in nineteen seventeen, Wow, and jumping ahead the 381 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,879 Speaker 1: Neco factory at most of the U S military sweet 382 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,159 Speaker 1: tooth needs during World War Two. Also hate Echo is 383 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 1: not the only company that makes these things. One UK 384 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 1: competitor or parallel rather because they don't sell in the 385 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: United States, called Swizzles, started making their love hearts in 386 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,919 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty four. They are not as strongly associated with 387 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,360 Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, though, as as I said earlier, sweethearts are 388 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,679 Speaker 1: sold basically entirely in the six weeks leading up to 389 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 1: Valentine's Day every year, but love Heart's debuted in Christmas crackers, 390 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,360 Speaker 1: you know, the treats that you pull apart on Christmas, 391 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: and they are now sold year round with different messages 392 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: for different events like Mother's Day, various royal family stuff, etcetera. 393 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,439 Speaker 1: I wonder if I'm sure niccho Is thought about getting 394 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,680 Speaker 1: into Valentine's Day, because it really is. You don't see 395 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 1: them outside of that. I mean in peeps of made 396 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 1: themselves year round, that's true. They've they've figured that out 397 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 1: that market, so I don't know. In the Neco Company 398 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: acquired a rival, one of these rivals, Stark Candy Company, 399 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,879 Speaker 1: which had been marketing their candy Conversation Hearts under the 400 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: Sweethearts brand. I'm sure iron Man is not associated with 401 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,639 Speaker 1: that at all. Oh, not that I'm personally aware of. 402 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:33,479 Speaker 1: More conspiracies. In the late two thousands, they did start 403 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: a new kind of marketing push with a whole bunch 404 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: of different, really entertaining ideas. Um they released a special 405 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:48,880 Speaker 1: edition Twilight branded Sweethearts into that Yeah yeah. In two 406 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 1: thousand nine, Um, they they glittered like vampires and Twilight Do, 407 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 1: and they included themed phrases like bite me, I trust you, 408 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 1: bad guy, you are my life, and I heart ec 409 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: EC standing for Edward Cullen, which is the main dude 410 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 1: character's name. Kind of a hard is that to give 411 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: to someone else? I'm not sure it's you think for you? Okay, 412 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 1: that's cool. Oh my favorite part about it. The flavors 413 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 1: were called Forbidden Fruits. Around this time, they also released 414 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: smoothie themed sweethearts with flavors like strawberry cream, peach, blueberry, banana, caramel, 415 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 1: and tropical tropical huh. Also in two thousand nine, they 416 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,360 Speaker 1: asked fans to submit new messages, and they got over 417 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 1: ten thousand responses. According to then marketing manager Amy Scott 418 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: in an interview with Time magazine, the top ten we 419 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 1: ended up using they were you rock and puppy love 420 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But we also got a lot 421 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: of weird ones, like love bacon. Justin Bieber, someone suggested 422 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 1: the situation beef burrito. I do love beef burritoes. Do 423 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,679 Speaker 1: you think love bacon? Is Kevin bacon are like bacon bacon? 424 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:14,360 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Kevin bacon bacon. Yeah yeah, I hadn't thought 425 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 1: about that, but best of all worlds. It's an annual 426 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 1: contest now, kids ages five to twelve can color in 427 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 1: one of the company's special black and white printed Sweethearts 428 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,919 Speaker 1: boxes and submit it for a chance to win the 429 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 1: opportunity to create a new phrase. A few phrases derived 430 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: from this contest in recent years include love to Dance, 431 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: girl power, and pugs and kittens. Oh, I think that's cute. 432 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 1: That is cute. Yeah. In Neco switched from artificial to 433 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:48,199 Speaker 1: natural flavorings and colorings, which apparently caused something of a 434 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: public backlash and a drop in sales. Um, I think 435 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,160 Speaker 1: they're they're on a mix of natural and artificial flavors now, 436 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,439 Speaker 1: but working on tweaking their recipes and moving towards totally 437 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 1: natural stuff. Also, hey, if if you want to make 438 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 1: your own, okay you can there. There are a few 439 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 1: recipes out there on the web and they all sound 440 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: no more difficult than making like cutout cookies. That I 441 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: might do that. Actually, I was kind of thinking of 442 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 1: making a joke one this year, and then I when 443 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 1: I've researched the price, I said, no way. But if 444 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: I can make my own yeah, oh yeah, yeah, with 445 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 1: a with a food coloring pen, in which if you 446 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,479 Speaker 1: can't find one at a grocery store, then a craft 447 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: store should definitely have them. You can write your own 448 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 1: messages on your own homemade candies. You can even bring 449 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 1: back any of their retired sayings that you like. May 450 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: I suggest a few? Please do? Laurence? Okay, all right, 451 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: all right, hatcha saucy boy? Why not facts me hep cat, 452 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 1: tell me how you are late? Love it www Dot Cupid? 453 00:28:54,680 --> 00:29:00,280 Speaker 1: Uh huh yeah, all right, oh boy, and let's read. Oh, 454 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: let's read. Yeah, yeah, I like Mary's kind of a 455 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: healthy mix of go away right and also come to me. Yeah. 456 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 1: I appreciate that you can really you can really personalize it. 457 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 1: Um are Oh there are two thousand nine line of 458 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 1: messages was themed menu of Love, which is which is 459 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 1: topical for this podcast, you know. And some of my 460 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: favorites from from that line included stir my heart, Oh yes, 461 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 1: my treat, sugar pie, spice it up, or recipe for love, 462 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 1: Recipe for love. I seem to recall it was a joke. 463 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 1: It was a bit in arrested development with the candy 464 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: hearts causing some kind of stirs some oh probably something 465 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: with maybe and uh, I believe so, Like George Michael 466 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 1: planted a candy heart for her and then Tobias picked 467 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:00,040 Speaker 1: it up. And yeah, this is meaning nothing to a 468 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 1: lot of you, dude, I totally recommen I mean, arrested 469 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: development is pretty if you're if you're looking to soothe 470 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 1: the pain of another Valentine's Day, arrested development is not 471 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 1: a bad way to do it. They're they're not done. Yeah, uh, 472 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 1: and that is the candy heart. We hope that, uh, 473 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: it has been enjoyable. And if you're celebrating Valentine's Day, 474 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: I hope it's a good one. Yes. If you're not, 475 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: I hope it's a good one too. Yeah, it's a 476 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 1: good February. And our listeners around the world, if you 477 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 1: don't really celebrate this, I'd love to hear what you 478 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 1: do celebrate on this time of year. And that brings 479 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 1: us to the end of this classic episode. We hope 480 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 1: that you enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed making it. 481 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:56,320 Speaker 1: They'll clearly have our issues with the candies and and 482 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: with Valentine's a Day, and I mean, honestly, with a 483 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 1: lot of things, but I mean that's fair that's fair. 484 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 1: It was funny to me though, because again I was, 485 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 1: you know, doing a quick search what's going on in 486 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: the world of conversation hearts, and I got a bunch 487 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 1: of recipes for Boba Fette cookies goods. His belt is 488 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: made out of conversation hearts, and I was like, wow, 489 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 1: Google's got me nailed. Yeah. Yeah, that's a very specific 490 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 1: search result any race that I believe is perfectly tailored 491 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 1: to you. So good job, good job, creepy you this time? 492 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 1: You really do? You really do? Every time I think 493 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,160 Speaker 1: of candy hearts too, I always think of Arrested Development. 494 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: There's a whole bit arrested Development where George Michael finds 495 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: the the candy that says maybe tonight, and he's in 496 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 1: love with his cousin maybe, and he's like, oh, but 497 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,680 Speaker 1: then it turns out it's like one of eight that 498 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,959 Speaker 1: you've gotten, and then the rest of them are like 499 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: no way, anyway. They're fun to talk about, They're they're 500 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 1: very fun, and I actually have question listeners. I want 501 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 1: to know if anybody likes Canny Heart. I want to 502 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 1: hear I was thinking about this. I want to hear 503 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 1: from somebody, Yeah, who likes candy hearts conversations. Give us, 504 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 1: give us the pro candy heart side of the conversation 505 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 1: because we are clearly very stilted. Yes, yes, we need 506 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: to balance this out. And I also just candy opinions 507 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 1: and Balentine's Day candy opinions in general would be appreciated. Yes, yes, 508 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,480 Speaker 1: and you could email those opinions to us at our 509 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 1: email address, which is hello at savor pod dot com. 510 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 1: You can also find us on social media. We are 511 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 1: on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at savor pod, and we 512 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 1: do hope to hear from you. Savor is a production 513 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,560 Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts my heart Radio, 514 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: you can visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, 515 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Thanks as 516 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 1: always to our superproducers Dylan Fagan and Andrew Howard. 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