Hard to find a good kosher candy to throw at your kids
A columnist reflects on the history of candy manufacturing in Chicago and the personal challenge of finding suitable Kosher options for children.
To be a Chicagoan — yes, I know I'm not — is to have a certain nostalgia about candy.Growing up here — OK, I grew up near Cleveland, thank you for noticing — meant to be aware of the enormous Brach's factory on the West Side and the Spanish Revival Mars confectionery on Oak Park Avenue. Visits downtown were liable to give you a contact high from the cocoa aroma rolling off the Blommer's chocolate factory. Opinion bug Opinion Being a fat kid — try snatching that away from me, you touchy…
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