Sunday, December 28, 2025

My Newest Favorite YouTube Channel

About a week ago the YouTube algorithm showed me a channel featuring Hercules Candy. Like watching pet groomers, the videos make a great background distraction. I’m watching two team members make white chocolate/watermelon ribbon candy as I type.
I once applied at a local candy shop but alas, did not get the job.
Their employment turnover is very low.
Besides fascination with the various procedures, the equipment amazes me. Much is modern while some century old tools passed down through the generations.

The eldest generation of children know next to nothing about candy making (!) because their parents wanted them to have more prosperous careers. Their son Craig is a gifted photographer who turned his passion into documenting their endeavors.

In an ironic twist, sales have since exploded. After apologizing for their low available stock, the adorable matriarch teasingly blamed her son. The entire video is long but I enjoyed the opening.


Do you know the name Hercules has historically been common in Greece like John in the United States? On a different note, can some wise reader please tell my silly self how to find Blogger’s spam folder?

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15 comments:

  1. Candy making is very cool and really is becoming a lost art replaced by technology.

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  2. Go to your Blog Dash Board, where you usually go to to click on New Post. In the left hand column click on Comments and at the top you will see All(numerals) with a downward pointing arrow to the right. Click on the arrow and there will probably be all sorts of surprises for you there if you've never checked before.

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  3. I didn't even know they still made ribbon candy. I have wordpress so I don't know the answer to the blogger question. XO

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  4. It's too bad I've already written my posts for next week, or I'd do a post on it. First, go to the screen with all your blog posts. On the side bar, click on "comments". At the top of the page, it should say "All" with the number of comments. Next to that is a down arrow (or rather just a triangle). Click on the down arrow/triangle.

    It'll show all, awaiting moderation, published, and spam. Awaiting moderation and spam should have a zero next to them. Click on the spam. If there was no zero next to it, you'll find all the spam comments there. You can mark those as not spam if anything got in there by mistake.

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  5. If you go to your main menu (click the three little lines to left of the big Blogger B), click comments. At the top of the comments page you will see "All" and the number in total of comments. Out a bit to right of "All" is a down arrow. Click that and you get a drop down that gives three comment categories one of which is spam. I currently have 3 comments in my spam folder, all of them mine, that blogger has decided to remove and dump into spam.

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  6. So many 'home methods', like candy making, have vanished over the years. Nice to see it's getting some revival.
    Regarding locating the Blogger spam folder, I can see that others have already explained the process.

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