You’re mostly right about the bananas. When that old song “Yes we have no 🍌’s” was written the world ate a different type than we eat today. It was killed off by a fungus. The cavendish banana we enjoy now is being killed off by a fungus now. That banana flavoring we use is from the older banana type flavor. Bananas were not genetically modified just favorable types taken and their natural clones used to develop plantations of that singular type. Monoculture are vulnerable and soon there will be no more cavendish bananas left. We like seedless fruits so we use nice tasting seedless types. All clones with the same weaknesses. So your fun facts are essentially right.
Just a slight correction.. The cavendish is being killed by a mutation of the same fungus that killed the Gros Michel.. which.. is actually still available, mostly in Asia, and not extinct, just hard to find... What pisses me off and why I will never trust Snopes is that people have been warning about this for at almost 20 years, and Snopes had a FALSE on their page. Now, if you go and look, it says mixture, because they went and edited the page, but they don't tell you that they changed the page. Look at the date it was published, Sept 2003. Now look at their sources, ALL of them are 2003 articles, except one that's a 2015 article. THAT is when they changed it to mixed and admitted that the cavendish is in danger. www.snopes.com/fact-check/banana-peal/
@@stephengeary6439 except he's right banana grow as pups from the mother plant. Each plant only fruits once. They are essentially congress of the mother plant. Also I think the older variety is called Gross Michael. You can still find them but it's rare. Cavendish are awful in my book. Fingerling bananas I find to have more flavor.
@@aebbingeable Depends on what you mean by slow. In what, 100 years?? There is an area in Texas, I believe, where rattlers are not rattling. They are being born with much smaller rattlers and some are being born with non functional rattlers, and that's because of human predation, pretty much, for rattler round ups... They are evolving away from rattling, because rattling is not a favorable adaptation in that area anymore. And again, this has happened in about 100 years which is a drop in the bucket when it comes to evolution, lol. Not to say I don't disagree, I DO agree with you, but the rattleless rattlers is just such a fascinating topic.
Carrot cake rules! Scott, I'm with you. My personal favorite growing up was always yellow cake with chocolate frosting, though. lol. Steve never fails to crack me up. He's so deadpan, reminds me of Steven Wright!
yea i agree, i noticed he rolls it in his hands wile the other guy uses speed and alternate hands to handle the syrup. works amazuingly well i can see.
Greg goes too slow with the corn syrup. He tries to just drop it in instead of tossing it in. Also I saw Greg touching his glasses then touching the candy. Not good. Watch that Greg.
Some interesting facts about the Cavendish banana... They're named after William Cavendish, the 6th duke of Devonshire, because the banana was developed in the greenhouses of Chatsworth House. They're genetic clones. They account for 99% of banana imports. It replaced the Gros Michel banana as the dominate banana when it died off from Panama disease. If you have ever used banana flavoring or eaten something banana flavored, it's flavor is based on the Gros Michel banana.
@@callista19w I just googled it, you can buy a very small box of them for $67 American plus shipping lol. I'm tempted. Actually, you still get about 14 bananas per small box, so not too bad considering how rare. They're grown in Florida!
Max was better and he got along with the family well. The chemistry between him and Craig was priceless and made for more interesting videos. The kid with the hairnet comes across as full of himself. he is constantly talking about what He has done and and is doing instead of what the store is doing or they(meaning all employed there) are doing. Max would use "we talk" and would never put himself above another person.
Been watching since basement conversations about the Red Green Show (made me proud to be Canadian). Proud of this family and all their success. Much deserved. Love seeing the new staff and young generation getting involved in candy making.
Steve Smith used to have a big party boat birthed in Hamilton right across the Bay from where I used to birth my boat in Burlington. Not sure if he still does. Whenever I took people out on my boat for the first time, I'd give them a quick tour of the Haida and "Red Green's" boat!
While watching the video the reason you get the syrup stuck to your hands is because you don't move it around fast enough. Also you keep it stuck to one hand as you move it around so you will always end up having a lot stick until you change your technique.
no hate on the carrot cake with cc frosting!! when my daughter was turning 10 i asked what kind of cake she wanted, as in... disney princess, barbie, bratz doll, or any theme, and she came at me with carrot cake. no princess. no doll. no theme. just a plain ol carrot cake with regular cream cheese frosting, not even her name on it.
If you put each batch in a line across the length of the table as you drop them, instead of in piles, then each "vertical" would have all the colors and you won't have to zig zag the length. You save time and break less.
Sigh. These people are not stupid. i am certain they have tried this already and realized quickly that their batches are too big to do this. Every single video they make a large mixed batch like this they get people saying this to them. Their family has been doing this longer than most of us have been alive.
@@trinafry1052 check out the channel "The Last Homely House On The Left", its all types of craft, drawing, knitting etc. It is ran by a lady who works for Hercules Candy (just like me).
@@gsmith6026 Apparently I used to eat them by the box as a kid, but these days I generally refuse to eat them unless they're in raisin toast or hot cross buns (or in something sparsely enough that they're not noticeable)
You all had me lol with the whole, "Shout out my boy Isaac Newton." The picture was hilarious and reminded me of Scottie P. -- all that's lacking is the chest tattoo which reads, "NO RAGRETS." (No regrets? Not any? Not even one? Not even a single letter?) 😂🤣😂 It's so refreshing to watch everyone having such a great time while working! Then again, can you really call that work? That's Okay Cooper, I'd choose ya over carrot cake too ... key lime pie might be a different story entirely. haha
I made a carrot cake that was so damned good, my ex asked me to make one for her wedding. Which I did. And all the guests raved at how good it was. A carrot cake done right is one of the best cakes out there.
I just looked it up and the species/variety of banana that’s possibly going extinct is called Cavendish and it’s facing something called Panama Disease
SciShow has a great episode explaining that the Gros Michel was the banana used until the 1950's and now it's almost extinct. The Cavendish is the banana most widely eaten right now but in a second episode SciShow did they explained the Cavendish is now in danger too.
Carrot cake is one of the best cakes if it's made right, carrot cake does not have the texture of carrots but you get a small taste of it with the spices, it's really good
I never get tired of watching y’all! The colors and sounds are satisfying and the conversation is hilarious 🤗🎉 All cake is loved! Cooper needs to keep trying carrot cake until he fines his favorite
@@HerculesCandy absolutely try Hummingbird Cake. It's more like a banana bread, and if that's not his thing... Chuck the batter in the waffle iron. It's the gateway to understanding carrot cake.
My Mom made the BEST carrot cake. I have tried lots of other carrot cakes but none compare to my Mom’s, it was super moist and she made a cream cheese frosting to go with it. Now I am craving it. LOL.
I love watching everything you guys put out. Everything is so satisfying as well as I love the random conversations bc you ALL are funny and bring different takes on things to the table. I love the entire crew.
Greg, the trick is that Cooper is a speed demon where juggling corn syrup is concerned. It's never on one hand LONG enough to stick. Steve does it the same way, and it never sticks for HIM either. Keep practicing, the quicker you manage to get, the less it'll stick.😉
@@queennefratiti69 will have to try that my dad when I was a kid about 8 years old he taught me to make carrot cake and spice cake. Will have to make some in honor of him soon.
I haven't watched this channel for a while, and I have to say I did not expect to roll in and see someone with those tattoos on camera on a family-oriented American channel. Don't get me wrong, they're beautiful and I love them, but there are a lot of people who could have a problem with them. Huge respect to the Hercules family for being open minded. ❤🖤
Wait- is that the Leah (spelling?) A - older sister that I have been hearing about for years? If so, coooll! Tropical is my jam, for sure! Yes to banter - absolutely - Craig and Max used to banter all the time and reference every good movie and silly show - lol
I know carrot can make people go UGH, but carrots are a very sweet veggie, and they lend a touch of sweetness to the cake. Carrot cake is considered a spice cake, and the carrot flavor is very faint. I hope Cooper tries it. I know it will turn his UGH to YUM.
I have a suggestion when it comes to mixing hard candy batches. When you dump them out of the cutter, lay each flavor out in horizontal rows that span the length of the table instead of stacking each batch on the right-hand end. That way you're getting more of an even distribution when you're finished with the last batch before you ever go to mixing with the scoop. Should be a big time and headache saver getting those bad boys mixed up.
Coop doesn't get syrup stuck because of how fast he moves it around. Your slow and gentle touch is actually giving it enough time to stick to your hands. You gotta slap it around a little!
@2:48 Greg "how... we did the same thing" yes but Coop did it 3-4 times faster, tossing the corn syrup back n forth between his hands and then tossing it into the bowl, not slowly trying to mould it by hand, Greg try to spend less time touching the corn syrup as Coop does!
Candy makers are literally the sweetest folks you can know. Always cheerful. They get to make the food that the world rewards themselves with and eats for pure pleasure. Keep on being yourselves, and full this world with sweetness. Now more than ever, we need it.... Please and thank you. 💯🍬🍫🍭🍯
for mixing the candies, I think what would be quicker and more through would be to put them all in a 55gal drum, and give them a brief tumble, not fast enough or long enough to break them, just enough to fully mix them.
In the UK, it's only within the last few years that vanilla or chocolate sponge cake was seen as birthday cake. Most celebration cakes (birthday, wedding, christmas, christenings, etc.,) were dark fruitcake with marzipan (rolled as a sheet and put on the cake like icing) and royal icing (hard fondant icing that was rolled out and attached to the marzipan layer with apricot jam.). I hate fruitcake (I'd peel off the marzipan and give the rest of it away)..
I love the stream-of-consciousness rambles, it's my style too! And Greg is mostly right about bananas, but the older Gros Michel isn't fully extinct; it can be found in some Caribbean and Pacific islands. And he was on the right track that the danger isn't from genetic modification (on its own) but from monocultures. Biodiversity is super important for keeping defenses up to speed, so no wonder a bunch of clones got wiped out by one (1) fungal species.
Hint on mixing...if you spread each color the length of the table, then mix front to back, it will be loads quicker and far more efficient and even. Ive mixed grain supplements for my rabbits for a good 30 years, believe me, there are tricks to it!! Thanks for great n fun videos!
It's actually true about the bananas. I think it was the Cavendish banana that went extinct in the 90s. Not because of the genetic modifications, but because the entire world's supply of bananas were the exact same species. So when a plant based pandemic hit the banana trees, it killed them all off
Absolutely loved this video. I felt like I was at home hanging out and laughing with all my friends. When we talk, we go from topic to topic to topic. No conversation patten and just love to share words with each other. The saying goes, book authors don't read others books cause they might be influenced in some way by that other author. But talking to your friends and family/ loved ones and sharing ideas is something amazing. Thanks you Hercules candy for such a warm and at home experience. Take care everyone. 🧡✌️🍀
Yes to carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, but not for my birthday...that's not special enough for a birthday. Also yes to pineapple juice - yum. And I'd have Greg as my grandson, he's sweet.
I would so love to order to Ontario, but the shipping is just out of this world! $52 USD as the cheapest shipping method to SW Ontario is painful (Over $65 CAD!). Is there any chance that there could be friendlier shipping options available? I know this is most likely out of your control, but ohhh the pain of not ordering because the shipping just can't be justified. Signed, a desperate for hard candy, Canuck!
Even here in the U.S the shipping is crazy expensive I paid $35 in shipping for a $37 order to Oregon the candy was amazing but I won’t order again unless they can do something about shipping I know they are no Amazon but there has to be some way to make it less expensive to ship.
once in a lifetime it's worth it - British Columbia here, paid thru the nose yowza, but shared out the pain a bit by buying a BUNCH of for family and friends AND for presents, and just pretended I didn't see the amount that went on my CC...
He is correct about the bananas. It's fungus killing them. And since we killed off all other bananas we might lose bananas. Unless they can modify them.
BANANA INFO. what he was trying to get at is our common day banana most of us love isn't at risk because it's genetically modified. it's at risk because the people who actually grow it and mass produce it grow banana trees of the same kind all together in one place. This makes it so when a disease or other infestation takes place, what ever is infesting the trees can just keep spreading. in nature patches of trees exist but are usually surrounded by other species of plants and trees. so if some infestation comes through there is usually some kind of buffer to keep things from spreading too much. although in agriculture of many types, mono crop systems consisting of just one species of plant are very susceptible to disease and insect or fungal infection. the more you know!
The Gros Michel banana (aka what artificial banana flavor is based on) is not extinct it's just not "commercially viable". It's susceptible to disease when grown in large commercial plots etc. You can still get it a few times a year from Central American specialty stores or in Florida where there are quite a few small growers.
OMG Who’s this lady‽ I don’t even have a business or logistics needs but I still feel like I need ShipStation in my life now! Seriously I think that’s the best testimonial I’ve seen!🤯 😂 LOL
continue the gabbing pls! banana extinction, carrot cakes, SpongeBob and Vine references… literally this channel is my new content that I relax and fall asleep to!
Gross Michel was the most common type of banana before the Cavendish cultivar we know today. It's richer and sweeter than today's Cavendish bananas. And NO Greg, it is NOT extinct. It's still grown in Myanmar under the name Thihmwe, in Cuba under the name Johnson, in Malaysia under the name Pisang Ambon, and in Hawaii under the name Bluefields. It's numbers WERE decimated in the late 50 by a soil fungus called Panama disease and it became commercially nonviable, but it never disappeared completely.
Carrot cake is definitely the best cake for any occasion and absolutely must have cream cheese icing. Filet o fish is literally the only edible sandwich from McDonald's and Pina colada is delicious.
My mother would rub paraffin on her hands when making the sugar+mint oil centers to the chocolate covered mints. Scrub em good, dry em better and then trim the nails and she'd just rub a shingle of paraffin. Kept the sticky way down but that was a cold center, don't know how that'd work if you blended a little paraffin into the hot melt sugar. Carrot cake. Crush up freeze dried strawberries to blend in, crush the cake into the pan after baking to make it denser. You can strew jello pudding mixed with 1.5 cups into the poured pan before baking, don't use the whole pudding.
Greg stands and talks after he dips his hands in water, so they dry a little. As soon as you dip in the water, immediately get the corn syrup and toss around and drop. You can’t just stop and talk while they’re drying.
The Gros Michel banana is not entirely extinct, it just isn't commercially viable any more due to a fungus that can wipe out entire crops. If you're willing to pay enough you can still get it from small scale growers. Edit: I wrote the comment before the part where you said everyone would write banana comments. I don't intend for it to be critical, I just think it's cool that they're still available when most people think they're gone.
The best part about liking carrot cake is that you are probably the only one at the party who does. You can eat all the cake you want. You can have my piece too.
You are not wrong about the Bananas. The previous bananas were definitley sweeter and had more flavor. The one we currently eat are in fact about to be extinct because of disease in the area they are grown in South America. If they were able to genetically modify them they would be disease resistent, but many people do not want to eat them if they are genetically modified. So you are not wrong.
You’re mostly right about the bananas. When that old song “Yes we have no 🍌’s” was written the world ate a different type than we eat today. It was killed off by a fungus. The cavendish banana we enjoy now is being killed off by a fungus now. That banana flavoring we use is from the older banana type flavor. Bananas were not genetically modified just favorable types taken and their natural clones used to develop plantations of that singular type. Monoculture are vulnerable and soon there will be no more cavendish bananas left.
We like seedless fruits so we use nice tasting seedless types. All clones with the same weaknesses.
So your fun facts are essentially right.
Should some one tell him about how seedless watermelons are made thatd be funny to hear
Just a slight correction.. The cavendish is being killed by a mutation of the same fungus that killed the Gros Michel.. which.. is actually still available, mostly in Asia, and not extinct, just hard to find...
What pisses me off and why I will never trust Snopes is that people have been warning about this for at almost 20 years, and Snopes had a FALSE on their page. Now, if you go and look, it says mixture, because they went and edited the page, but they don't tell you that they changed the page.
Look at the date it was published, Sept 2003. Now look at their sources, ALL of them are 2003 articles, except one that's a 2015 article. THAT is when they changed it to mixed and admitted that the cavendish is in danger.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/banana-peal/
@@stephengeary6439 except he's right banana grow as pups from the mother plant. Each plant only fruits once. They are essentially congress of the mother plant.
Also I think the older variety is called Gross Michael. You can still find them but it's rare. Cavendish are awful in my book. Fingerling bananas I find to have more flavor.
Even favourable selection kind of changes the genetics but in a much slower slower rate
@@aebbingeable Depends on what you mean by slow. In what, 100 years?? There is an area in Texas, I believe, where rattlers are not rattling. They are being born with much smaller rattlers and some are being born with non functional rattlers, and that's because of human predation, pretty much, for rattler round ups...
They are evolving away from rattling, because rattling is not a favorable adaptation in that area anymore.
And again, this has happened in about 100 years which is a drop in the bucket when it comes to evolution, lol.
Not to say I don't disagree, I DO agree with you, but the rattleless rattlers is just such a fascinating topic.
Carrot cake rules! Scott, I'm with you. My personal favorite growing up was always yellow cake with chocolate frosting, though. lol. Steve never fails to crack me up. He's so deadpan, reminds me of Steven Wright!
Brazilian style carrot cake!
I love carrot cake so much
True
I accidently nutted one time eating banana bread.
I like carrot cake too
Greg doesn't go fast enough with the corn syrup 😂 got that mellow vibe going strong!
Greg must have some really hot hands to melt the corn syrup like that
@@mdunn4555 that's it! 😂 but no, I think Deborah is right
yea i agree, i noticed he rolls it in his hands wile the other guy uses speed and alternate hands to handle the syrup. works amazuingly well i can see.
Greg goes too slow with the corn syrup. He tries to just drop it in instead of tossing it in. Also I saw Greg touching his glasses then touching the candy. Not good. Watch that Greg.
Would I like to mention no gloves used at all why
Honestly I really like you all just chatting its honestly relaxing
A lot of people seem to like it for background noise
The editing of the candy at the start was great! I loved the cut of the blue candy dropping/flowing onto the table.
Thanks!
Some interesting facts about the Cavendish banana...
They're named after William Cavendish, the 6th duke of Devonshire, because the banana was developed in the greenhouses of Chatsworth House.
They're genetic clones.
They account for 99% of banana imports.
It replaced the Gros Michel banana as the dominate banana when it died off from Panama disease. If you have ever used banana flavoring or eaten something banana flavored, it's flavor is based on the Gros Michel banana.
Oh, and I loathe bananas. Never liked them.
I love bananna flavoring and hate real banannas, l would love to try a gros michel bananna
@@callista19w me too :(
@@callista19w I just googled it, you can buy a very small box of them for $67 American plus shipping lol. I'm tempted. Actually, you still get about 14 bananas per small box, so not too bad considering how rare. They're grown in Florida!
I was 'lucky', a friend brought me a few gros Michel when returning from Thailand - now I have stopped buying bananas.
I miss Max but these guys are amazing, always picking out great members for your candy creating team!
I was just thinking the same thing. But it's good to see fresh faces
Hi, did Max resign?
These videos aren’t the same without max.
@@barbieperez4230 I believe he took up a better opportunity.
Max was better and he got along with the family well. The chemistry between him and Craig was priceless and made for more interesting videos. The kid with the hairnet comes across as full of himself. he is constantly talking about what He has done and and is doing instead of what the store is doing or they(meaning all employed there) are doing. Max would use "we talk" and would never put himself above another person.
Been watching since basement conversations about the Red Green Show (made me proud to be Canadian). Proud of this family and all their success. Much deserved. Love seeing the new staff and young generation getting involved in candy making.
Steve Smith used to have a big party boat birthed in Hamilton right across the Bay from where I used to birth my boat in Burlington. Not sure if he still does. Whenever I took people out on my boat for the first time, I'd give them a quick tour of the Haida and "Red Green's" boat!
While watching the video the reason you get the syrup stuck to your hands is because you don't move it around fast enough. Also you keep it stuck to one hand as you move it around so you will always end up having a lot stick until you change your technique.
The Greg and Coop vibes are at an all time highhh. Fun to watch
They sure are a dynamic duo!
no hate on the carrot cake with cc frosting!! when my daughter was turning 10 i asked what kind of cake she wanted, as in... disney princess, barbie, bratz doll, or any theme, and she came at me with carrot cake. no princess. no doll. no theme. just a plain ol carrot cake with regular cream cheese frosting, not even her name on it.
If you put each batch in a line across the length of the table as you drop them, instead of in piles, then each "vertical" would have all the colors and you won't have to zig zag the length. You save time and break less.
Sigh. These people are not stupid. i am certain they have tried this already and realized quickly that their batches are too big to do this. Every single video they make a large mixed batch like this they get people saying this to them. Their family has been doing this longer than most of us have been alive.
Love the random conversations, it feels like we're just hanging out with the Boys😃and candy... y'all are awesome keep it up!
The random conversations are one of the reasons I started watching. I listen while I craft. Feels like I'm sitting in a room with my grown kids.☺️
@@trinafry1052 check out the channel "The Last Homely House On The Left", its all types of craft, drawing, knitting etc.
It is ran by a lady who works for Hercules Candy (just like me).
Scott, I'm with you on wanting a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting for your birthday (just no raisins/sultanas in the cake). Go Team Carrot Cake
Raisins are only good in Trail Mix, that’s it.
@@gsmith6026 Apparently I used to eat them by the box as a kid, but these days I generally refuse to eat them unless they're in raisin toast or hot cross buns (or in something sparsely enough that they're not noticeable)
Don’t forget NUTS I love n miss carrot cake
@@gracio1231 Specifically walnuts.
@@dracosannie ah I see but I don’t like any nuts in my carrot cake that’s what I meant to say oop
I love this channel. Ya'll are so cool.
Tropical medley sounds great.
It's DELISH!!!! I ordered some last year. Can't wait to order it again.
We bought a lot of your candy when we stopped in in late April. Still working on it. Really enjoying the fruit punch!
You must have a lot of self restraint 😂 but I'm glad you enjoyed everything!
@@HerculesCandy It’s easy to make things last with the hard candy! I’ll order more to ship soon!
You all had me lol with the whole, "Shout out my boy Isaac Newton." The picture was hilarious and reminded me of Scottie P. -- all that's lacking is the chest tattoo which reads, "NO RAGRETS." (No regrets? Not any? Not even one? Not even a single letter?) 😂🤣😂 It's so refreshing to watch everyone having such a great time while working! Then again, can you really call that work? That's Okay Cooper, I'd choose ya over carrot cake too ... key lime pie might be a different story entirely. haha
I agree with Scott. Nothing beats the cream cheese frosting.
Your random conversation is fun. Keep it up. Nice to see how hard these guys work to make a quality product. Thank you.
I made a carrot cake that was so damned good, my ex asked me to make one for her wedding. Which I did. And all the guests raved at how good it was. A carrot cake done right is one of the best cakes out there.
I just looked it up and the species/variety of banana that’s possibly going extinct is called Cavendish and it’s facing something called Panama Disease
Same thing happened to a few other varieties in the 50s
I would guess that they are starting new varieties to be resistant to the Panama disease..let's see if scientists or disease are faster lol
It gets into the soil and spreads super easy
SciShow has a great episode explaining that the Gros Michel was the banana used until the 1950's and now it's almost extinct. The Cavendish is the banana most widely eaten right now but in a second episode SciShow did they explained the Cavendish is now in danger too.
Not in Honduras
I miss Max . Still love watching u making candy
Carrot cake is one of the best cakes if it's made right, carrot cake does not have the texture of carrots but you get a small taste of it with the spices, it's really good
Carrot cake is amazing! I want it for my birthday, and every other day!
I love the banter and factoid talk. 💙 And please keep fact checking with Steve 😆
I never get tired of watching y’all! The colors and sounds are satisfying and the conversation is hilarious 🤗🎉
All cake is loved! Cooper needs to keep trying carrot cake until he fines his favorite
One day he'll learn to enjoy the finer things in life
@@HerculesCandy absolutely try Hummingbird Cake. It's more like a banana bread, and if that's not his thing... Chuck the batter in the waffle iron. It's the gateway to understanding carrot cake.
My Mom made the BEST carrot cake. I have tried lots of other carrot cakes but none compare to my Mom’s, it was super moist and she made a cream cheese frosting to go with it. Now I am craving it. LOL.
I love watching everything you guys put out. Everything is so satisfying as well as I love the random conversations bc you ALL are funny and bring different takes on things to the table. I love the entire crew.
Also Craig, I REALLY love your hair that length and in a ponytail. It suits your face SO well!
“They can fact check all they want , I’ve never been wrong “ had me lmao
Greg has amazing tattoos!
Greg, the trick is that Cooper is a speed demon where juggling corn syrup is concerned. It's never on one hand LONG enough to stick. Steve does it the same way, and it never sticks for HIM either. Keep practicing, the quicker you manage to get, the less it'll stick.😉
I LOVE a good carrot cake. I add coconut milk in mine and it truly makes it more delicious!
I add walnuts to my carrot cake and cream cheese vanilla frosting
Okay I think Coop needs to try your carrot cake!
@@SuperGigi06 shredded coconut is good too. Really adds to the flavor.
@@queennefratiti69 will have to try that my dad when I was a kid about 8 years old he taught me to make carrot cake and spice cake. Will have to make some in honor of him soon.
I haven't watched this channel for a while, and I have to say I did not expect to roll in and see someone with those tattoos on camera on a family-oriented American channel. Don't get me wrong, they're beautiful and I love them, but there are a lot of people who could have a problem with them. Huge respect to the Hercules family for being open minded. ❤🖤
sounds like you're the only one who has a problem with it.
There's more ppl with tattoos than without , your the minority and just to make a comment about tattoos is downright wrong.
.... It’s tattoos. Like..??????
Picking carrot cake for your birthday is a smart choice! Those that aren't a fan won't eat it, thereby giving you the gift of extra cake!
Bananas are not genetically modified, but the one commonly eaten is a clone. Hi, Greg!
Oh boy...
Oh no, this might be the first time he's ever been wrong! 😱
First time watching, like the dynamic, from a first time perspective seems like a cool place to hang with the boys, making candy is cool in my book.
“Shoutout to my boy Isaac Newton, keeping me grounded”😂😂😂 laughed out loud oh my god
Maybe Cooper just hasn’t had the right carrot cake…
I've tried at least 25 different carrot cakes. They still aren't a cake I'll eat willingly.
Second this. I didn't like carrot cake for years and after trying a few different recipes it's one of my favs.
Mine too…love it..they sell these small slices at the convenience store I work at and man…they’re so good
The opening scene. The camera and editing work was magical.
the way the video is edited made me laugh so hard, love it and keep up the great work!
Thanks Jenna! I'm glad somebody enjoyed our painstaking hours of editing and re-editing 😂
Wait- is that the Leah (spelling?) A - older sister that I have been hearing about for years? If so, coooll! Tropical is my jam, for sure! Yes to banter - absolutely - Craig and Max used to banter all the time and reference every good movie and silly show - lol
Yes that's the older sister Leah 😊
I know carrot can make people go UGH, but carrots are a very sweet veggie, and they lend a touch of sweetness to the cake. Carrot cake is considered a spice cake, and the carrot flavor is very faint. I hope Cooper tries it. I know it will turn his UGH to YUM.
Just tell him its zucchini bread....frosted. surprisingly good if you try that, too.
What if you let the hard candies cool along the back wall in a thinner row. Then as you add each new row the candy would already be nearly mixed
I have a suggestion when it comes to mixing hard candy batches. When you dump them out of the cutter, lay each flavor out in horizontal rows that span the length of the table instead of stacking each batch on the right-hand end. That way you're getting more of an even distribution when you're finished with the last batch before you ever go to mixing with the scoop. Should be a big time and headache saver getting those bad boys mixed up.
I think they need the room to cool the candy, which is why it's next to the fan.
Way too much candy in each batch for them to do that.
@bludhaven8634 any suggestions for newbies like myself on getting started; equipment, ingredients, etc?
Coop doesn't get syrup stuck because of how fast he moves it around. Your slow and gentle touch is actually giving it enough time to stick to your hands. You gotta slap it around a little!
Love the new kids very light hearted again!
@2:48 Greg "how... we did the same thing" yes but Coop did it 3-4 times faster, tossing the corn syrup back n forth between his hands and then tossing it into the bowl, not slowly trying to mould it by hand, Greg try to spend less time touching the corn syrup as Coop does!
You guys need a rolling barrel to mix the colors really quick lol! Great video.
Candy makers are literally the sweetest folks you can know. Always cheerful. They get to make the food that the world rewards themselves with and eats for pure pleasure. Keep on being yourselves, and full this world with sweetness. Now more than ever, we need it.... Please and thank you. 💯🍬🍫🍭🍯
I love carrot cake so much!!! Great vidya. The candy looked so yummy. Thanks, Hercules crew, for all you do. Hi Craig.
Thanks so much Crystal!
No the vids where y’all talk about just random stuff while making candy are the Best ones
The banana thing is called Panama Disease
So awesome to see Steve and Terri girls working in the candy shop so they can pass it on.
"my grandma loves me. i hope your grandma loves me too." - Greg 2022
for mixing the candies, I think what would be quicker and more through would be to put them all in a 55gal drum, and give them a brief tumble, not fast enough or long enough to break them, just enough to fully mix them.
In the UK, it's only within the last few years that vanilla or chocolate sponge cake was seen as birthday cake. Most celebration cakes (birthday, wedding, christmas, christenings, etc.,) were dark fruitcake with marzipan (rolled as a sheet and put on the cake like icing) and royal icing (hard fondant icing that was rolled out and attached to the marzipan layer with apricot jam.). I hate fruitcake (I'd peel off the marzipan and give the rest of it away)..
Whoa...had no idea.
Greg seems like a really great employee. very knowledgable and was smiling the whole video.
Love your videos and your generosity sharing this art form. Thanks to you I’m now a candy maker. Best wishes from Sweden.
That's so cool! I hope you can continue learning from us!
It truly makes sense to dump the Candies perpendicular to the wall. That way you can run the scoop up the table for an easier,, quicker mix.
"They can fact check all they want. I've never been wrong" Hercules' Humble candy makers 🤣🤣
Cooper, don't make me choose!!
Team C(arrot)ooper
I love the stream-of-consciousness rambles, it's my style too!
And Greg is mostly right about bananas, but the older Gros Michel isn't fully extinct; it can be found in some Caribbean and Pacific islands.
And he was on the right track that the danger isn't from genetic modification (on its own) but from monocultures. Biodiversity is super important for keeping defenses up to speed, so no wonder a bunch of clones got wiped out by one (1) fungal species.
Yum. Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I think that should be a new flavor of candy.
I'd eat that.
Hint on mixing...if you spread each color the length of the table, then mix front to back, it will be loads quicker and far more efficient and even.
Ive mixed grain supplements for my rabbits for a good 30 years, believe me, there are tricks to it!!
Thanks for great n fun videos!
Team carrot cake!! But, still love you Cooper! ...and Greg!
No evil, dirty, unnecessary chemicals, preservatives or stablizers, just nice natural candy
You guys crack me up!! I love your videos, and your candy!!!! Keep up the great work.
Thanks Tatianna!
It's actually true about the bananas. I think it was the Cavendish banana that went extinct in the 90s. Not because of the genetic modifications, but because the entire world's supply of bananas were the exact same species.
So when a plant based pandemic hit the banana trees, it killed them all off
Carrot cake is my favorite, but no raisins.
Love the random talking while you make candy 🍭 awesome
Team Carrot all day!! My fathers bday is in 3 weeks, he asked for a carrot cake too!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely loved this video. I felt like I was at home hanging out and laughing with all my friends. When we talk, we go from topic to topic to topic. No conversation patten and just love to share words with each other. The saying goes, book authors don't read others books cause they might be influenced in some way by that other author. But talking to your friends and family/ loved ones and sharing ideas is something amazing. Thanks you Hercules candy for such a warm and at home experience. Take care everyone. 🧡✌️🍀
Yes to carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, but not for my birthday...that's not special enough for a birthday. Also yes to pineapple juice - yum. And I'd have Greg as my grandson, he's sweet.
video editing skills are getting really really good, you can tell.
Thanks so much Mike!
I would so love to order to Ontario, but the shipping is just out of this world! $52 USD as the cheapest shipping method to SW Ontario is painful (Over $65 CAD!). Is there any chance that there could be friendlier shipping options available? I know this is most likely out of your control, but ohhh the pain of not ordering because the shipping just can't be justified. Signed, a desperate for hard candy, Canuck!
I'm in Manitoba and it's even worse! The struggle is real
Even here in the U.S the shipping is crazy expensive I paid $35 in shipping for a $37 order to Oregon the candy was amazing but I won’t order again unless they can do something about shipping I know they are no Amazon but there has to be some way to make it less expensive to ship.
once in a lifetime it's worth it - British Columbia here, paid thru the nose yowza, but shared out the pain a bit by buying a BUNCH of for family and friends AND for presents, and just pretended I didn't see the amount that went on my CC...
I love the banter. Carrot Cake is good with Chocolate Chips added in the batter. I'm a big Cooper fan!
Haha I don't get it...carrot cake and Filet O Fish are both so yummyyy
He is correct about the bananas. It's fungus killing them. And since we killed off all other bananas we might lose bananas. Unless they can modify them.
These guys are amazing
BANANA INFO. what he was trying to get at is our common day banana most of us love isn't at risk because it's genetically modified. it's at risk because the people who actually grow it and mass produce it grow banana trees of the same kind all together in one place. This makes it so when a disease or other infestation takes place, what ever is infesting the trees can just keep spreading.
in nature patches of trees exist but are usually surrounded by other species of plants and trees. so if some infestation comes through there is usually some kind of buffer to keep things from spreading too much. although in agriculture of many types, mono crop systems consisting of just one species of plant are very susceptible to disease and insect or fungal infection.
the more you know!
Carrot cake is gross! Team Cooper!
The Gros Michel banana (aka what artificial banana flavor is based on) is not extinct it's just not "commercially viable". It's susceptible to disease when grown in large commercial plots etc. You can still get it a few times a year from Central American specialty stores or in Florida where there are quite a few small growers.
Team carrot cake! I want it for my bday every year, too! Cooper, I think you've only had bad carrot cake!
OMG Who’s this lady‽ I don’t even have a business or logistics needs but I still feel like I need ShipStation in my life now! Seriously I think that’s the best testimonial I’ve seen!🤯
😂 LOL
Bro carrot cake is the best
continue the gabbing pls! banana extinction, carrot cakes, SpongeBob and Vine references… literally this channel is my new content that I relax and fall asleep to!
Waffle Crisp Cereal bark!!!!!!!!!!
Gross Michel was the most common type of banana before the Cavendish cultivar we know today. It's richer and sweeter than today's Cavendish bananas. And NO Greg, it is NOT extinct.
It's still grown in Myanmar under the name Thihmwe, in Cuba under the name Johnson, in Malaysia under the name Pisang Ambon, and in Hawaii under the name Bluefields.
It's numbers WERE decimated in the late 50 by a soil fungus called Panama disease and it became commercially nonviable, but it never disappeared completely.
I love your videos candy
Carrot cake is definitely the best cake for any occasion and absolutely must have cream cheese icing. Filet o fish is literally the only edible sandwich from McDonald's and Pina colada is delicious.
NICE
My mother would rub paraffin on her hands when making the sugar+mint oil centers to the chocolate covered mints. Scrub em good, dry em better and then trim the nails and she'd just rub a shingle of paraffin. Kept the sticky way down but that was a cold center, don't know how that'd work if you blended a little paraffin into the hot melt sugar.
Carrot cake. Crush up freeze dried strawberries to blend in, crush the cake into the pan after baking to make it denser. You can strew jello pudding mixed with 1.5 cups into the poured pan before baking, don't use the whole pudding.
Greg stands and talks after he dips his hands in water, so they dry a little. As soon as you dip in the water, immediately get the corn syrup and toss around and drop. You can’t just stop and talk while they’re drying.
The Gros Michel banana is not entirely extinct, it just isn't commercially viable any more due to a fungus that can wipe out entire crops. If you're willing to pay enough you can still get it from small scale growers.
Edit: I wrote the comment before the part where you said everyone would write banana comments. I don't intend for it to be critical, I just think it's cool that they're still available when most people think they're gone.
I just realized how much work goes into candy making
First, love Greg's tattoos. Second, I'm with Team Cooper. Down with the carrot cake.
This feels like watching a 90's buddy comedy. I love it.
i still wonder, why dont you have a drops roller, like he have in lofty prusuit? it would be much easier, and more variations. love from Norway.
The best part about liking carrot cake is that you are probably the only one at the party who does. You can eat all the cake you want. You can have my piece too.
You guys are so funny. Carrot cake is so good you don't know what you are missing. Love your videos
The banana facts guy put me over the edge and I subscribed. Greg, don't change! I'm a fan.
You are not wrong about the Bananas. The previous bananas were definitley sweeter and had more flavor. The one we currently eat are in fact about to be extinct because of disease in the area they are grown in South America. If they were able to genetically modify them they would be disease resistent, but many people do not want to eat them if they are genetically modified. So you are not wrong.