It had gotten too expensive to make them here.ĬHACE: The places that buy the candy canes to sell - the Targets and the Walmart's of the world - they don't care about the brand. But about 10 years ago, they moved the red-and-white candy cane operation to Mexico. JIANG: Red-and-white candy canes - they used to make them here at this factory in Ohio. SPANGLER: The sugar is - the sugar as the deliverer of the flavor.ĬHACE: The Spangler Company, they actually make this other iconic piece of candy - something even more nostalgia-inspiring than a lollipop. Would it make the same emotional connection with you? No, it definitely wouldn't. Could we make a Dum Dum with a pure corn sweetener? Probably. SPANGLER: Nothing delivers flavor like sugar. But Dean says to get the true flavor of your childhood, there is no substitute. And there's corn syrup in these lollipops too. JIANG: Lots of places replace sugar with corn syrup. SPANGLER: All year long, all day long - 24 hours a day. So we're receiving sugar, you know, constantly. SPANGLER: We have about enough sugar storage here for about four days. SPANGLER: We use about 100,000 pounds of sugar a day.ĬHACE: The room is basically big enough for four huge tanks of liquid sugar - eight Olympic-sized swimming pools worth. They need a whole separate building just for the ingredients - well, one ingredient in particular. The factory is several football fields big. There's blueberry, cream soda, root beer, watermelon.ĬHACE: Dum Dums is the signature product of this place, the Spangler Candy Company. JIANG: The buckets are filled with flavors and colors. And there's what looks like paint buckets just standing right next to it. It's a little bit "Willy Wonka."ĬHACE: Imagine a kitchen made for giants with a couple of busy little chefs running around in aprons and hairnets.ĬHACE: They're pouring these big steel pots of sticky sugar and corn syrup into this Kitchenaid that is as tall as a basketball hoop. And he's showing us around the kitchen at the candy factory. JIANG: Dean Spangler is the former CEO of the Spangler Company. SPANGLER: In a minute and a half, he's going to mix savvy blueberry. JIANG: But lots of people don't know where they come from.ĬHACE: We're looking at thousands of these little wrapped lollipops clattering out of this big steel pipe at the Dum Dum factory in northwest Ohio. You've seen them at your doctor's office or your bank - sugar, corn syrup, little wax wrapping, bunch of different flavors, sticks.
#Minnesota dum dum song update#
We originally reported this show back in 2013, and now we have an update for you at the end.Įverybody knows Dum Dums. A trailer for the album has also been released, including a new song called “Too True to be Good.Hi, Jess Jiang here. The Dum Dum Girls’ third album was announced in October, along with the video for their track “Lost Boys and Girls Club,” which was made with help from H&M. Drummer Sandra Vu, who fronts Los Angeles band SISU, has been splitting her time between the two bands in 2013 between touring and recording. The band is already on a short winter tour from December 10 to December 15 in Europe, but will head back to the states in preparation for the North American tour and the release of their new record.