Sweet’s Chocolate SticksBy: Francesca Parker

Mama says you don’t need anymore chocolate.

Mama is wrong. Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to

secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behavior by making you happy. Therefore, it counteracts depression, in turn reducing the stress of depression. Your stress-free life helps you maintain a youthful disposition, both physically and mentally. So, eat lots of chocolate! Elaine Sherman, Book of Divine Indulgences

Sweet Candy Company

Occupied.

Yay for Candy!Top 3

Chocolate Sticks. Sweet Candy.com

o “Sweet Candy Company's classic Chocolate Covered Sticks are the perfect candy to eat yourself or gift to a friend. Soft, fresh raspberry[orange, and cherry] centers blanketed in rich milk[or dark] chocolate are always enjoyed.”

How they are made:o Molding o Enrobing o Packaging

Mogul Kitchen(molding)

Photography by Ron Adair.

Cornstarch mold Hot Candy Syrup

Hot Candy SyrupComing from secret

kitchen.

Automated. Perfect Measurement.

Sticks In Cornstarch Mold.

Sit for 48 hours. Hot candy syrup to

jelly candy. Like Jell-O

Stacked up.

After Sitting, Vacuum

After Vacuum Quality control

o Watch sticks go by• Shaped funny• Too much cornstarch

o Straighten sticks• Not touching each

other

Heading To Chocolate Enrober

Chocolate Enrober Big machine

o Home of chocolate fall Sticks go under

o Chocolate Falls through cracks

Shake Excess chocolate Air bubbles recycling

Cooling Tunnel

Proprietary Long refrigerator Size of a football field

Packaging Area Packaging machine

o Comprised of multiple machines.

Vacuum

Photographs by Ron Adair

Top on Each Box Plastic Tunnel

Works Cited• "Our History." sweetcandy.com.

Sweet Candy Co, n.d. Web. 29 Mar 2011. <http://www.sweetcandy.com/history>. • Sherman, Elaine. Book of Divine Indulgences. 1st ed. 1. Contemporary Books Inc., 1987. Print.

• Photographs by Ron Adair