I Love Lucy & See's Candies? "Job Switching" episode

Welcome to the best of California. I'm your host Pat Pattison. I hope you have a sweet tooth Today's episode is California sweet spots. I'm in my Jelly Belly mobile up here at the Jelly Belly factory in the Bay Area So bring your sweet tooth Let's get in the Jelly Belly mobile and head out and our first California sweet spot sees candies of course So I am so excited to be here at the home of C's candy and I'm here with LA Mr. LA tours Tom Sanchez and Tom. I gotta say To me, there's three brands that continue to speak to California that would be Disneyland in and out burgers and C's candy. Would you agree? Oh, absolutely. So Tom tell us a little bit about the history of C's Well C's candy and as as it appears in the boxers, Mary C She was a woman from Toronto, Canada who would make Candies in her own home So they were so popular that her son decided to move to California like so many people did Open up a candy shop using his mother's recipes and at first it was out of out of their own home in Pasadena Pasadena connection. Oh my gosh and When did they where did they have their first store? Where did they have? Well, the first store was open in 1921 at 135 Northwestern and I know one of the things about C's candy and you are an expert in this area Tell me what happened here famously for a TV show. Well in 1952 Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance Visited this this factory here in order to learn about the candy making About candy making because they were filming their now classic episode job switching for I love Lucy This is why they're on the conveyor belt and I can't get it fast enough Right exactly and the supervisor is yelling speed it up girls and they're swallowing everything and putting everything down their clothes This is their blocking where they did their blocking and and in terms of C's Currently tell me a little bit about what what the status of C's is currently well it's owned by Berkshire Hathaway, which is a company owned by Warren Buffett the investor extraordinaire and Warren Buffett really takes an active interest in C's. He always serves C's candy at his board meetings. Oh my gosh Well, that makes sense. I hope I hope they're all maintaining their weight somehow and and Your favorite flavor. What's your favorite? Well, I I have I have two I can never just have one right? so I I Shuttled between peanut clusters, which I've loved since I was a child and when C started making truffles truffles I always eat Well, mine is chocolate buttercreams. That's what I battled my brother Steve over So one of the things you all should do is tell us your favorite C's candy flavor wherever you have you can get it to us Facebook or YouTube and Tom Just tell me a little bit about how this brand Every what's what's your sense of how this brand has stayed so pure? Well, there has been well interesting all the different owners have seen the value of the ingredients the kinds of ingredients that were that have been used for C's candy and they've really made a commitment to keep it as close to the way that Mary C made her candies as much as possible and yet Doing things that would make it affordable And more available, so they started to do wholesale pricing for candy. They were among the first to do that During the Depression and then went by opening a candy factory in San Francisco They were able to branch out and expand the brand more. Mr. LA tours Tom Chen Sanchez. Thank you so much Thank you Pat very much for having