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  • čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
  • Filmed in Bury, Lancashire (1967)
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  • @nejojohnson
    @nejojohnson Před měsícem +4911

    One of these facts are not like the other. xD

    • @angrydragonslayer
      @angrydragonslayer Před měsícem +134

      "laced with what?"

    • @roberthegwood3528
      @roberthegwood3528 Před měsícem +143

      The arsenic was laced with humbugs.

    • @katto2558
      @katto2558 Před měsícem +18

      I had to rewind, lol!

    • @clairedeluna
      @clairedeluna Před měsícem +158

      So in the past, people used to adulterate the sweets with plaster, different dusts, and stuff from the pharmacy. The price of sugar was too high, due to taxes and manufacturing prices. The pharmacy mixed up the arsenic with the normal adulterants for sweets. It was sold on Halloween in 1858, about 200 people were poisoned, but because it was similar to cholera, people at first didn't think it was the sweets till about a day later. It wasn't until 1860 an adulterant law was passed and 1878 a sugar tax was repealed that the adulterated sweets stopped.

    • @micktuber
      @micktuber Před měsícem

      ​@@katto2558same!

  • @roberthegwood3528
    @roberthegwood3528 Před měsícem +4038

    I was concerned when dude was putting his hand down in the roller, then you hit me with, "1858 arsenic laced humbugs kill 20" ☠

    • @brandonellis8111
      @brandonellis8111 Před měsícem +57

      Facts! I was like that looks dangerous then 😳 oh my

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 Před měsícem +56

      Not the best advert for your company

    • @qwerty30013
      @qwerty30013 Před měsícem +62

      @@SamuelBlack84health and safety standards are a bit different today than 57 years ago

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 Před měsícem +8

      @@qwerty30013 Not for mental health

    • @simony2801
      @simony2801 Před měsícem +10

      Those machines looked dangerous to me 😢

  • @chrismingay6005
    @chrismingay6005 Před měsícem +875

    Fun fact, the music wasnt added, thats just what plays at the Humbug factory

    • @captaindookey
      @captaindookey Před měsícem +29

      I wouldn't mind listening to KPM production music while making hard candy.

    • @akapple3538
      @akapple3538 Před měsícem +18

      @@captaindookeyI see you know your music libraries

    • @bushcrafty7274
      @bushcrafty7274 Před měsícem +1

      Very American

    • @markscott6414
      @markscott6414 Před 29 dny +5

      @@bushcrafty7274
      British, Sir!

    • @The_Robbing_Narrator
      @The_Robbing_Narrator Před 27 dny

      ​@@akapple3538 KPM always makes those long work shifts go by fast

  • @MrPSaun
    @MrPSaun Před měsícem +1871

    Those gloves around all that rotating machinery is giving me the willies.

    • @PhilJonesIII
      @PhilJonesIII Před měsícem +112

      That would explain the protein-enriched batches they turned out from time to time.
      But yea, bad news working on that machine.

    • @annedejong1040
      @annedejong1040 Před měsícem +34

      even without em, I mean typical ow wait I dropped something in the...krggggg

    • @PaulRudd1941
      @PaulRudd1941 Před měsícem +43

      Same, as a sheet metal worker, gloves and rollers are a massive *NOPE* from me.

    • @PiXie232
      @PiXie232 Před měsícem +35

      @@PaulRudd1941it’s *extremely* hot, unfortunately they have to wear gloves when making this type of candy- either with machines or handmade.

    • @kona702
      @kona702 Před měsícem +3

      Same! 😮😮

  • @SaltyRat05
    @SaltyRat05 Před měsícem +945

    "Suckable size and good looong chew". A man of class I see.

  • @cynicalshows1789
    @cynicalshows1789 Před měsícem +1137

    Then you take the dinglebop and push it through the grumbo, where the fleeb is rubbed against it. It's important that the fleeb is rubbed, because the fleeb has all of the fleeb juice.

    • @kabochaVA
      @kabochaVA Před měsícem +86

      I always wondered how Plumbuses got made...

    • @juliancisco3624
      @juliancisco3624 Před měsícem +7

      😂

    • @stevengray4595
      @stevengray4595 Před měsícem

      And a good licking of the snozberrie to release the thick milky goodness 😊

    • @finddeniro
      @finddeniro Před měsícem +10

      Indubitably...!

    • @ghomeishy
      @ghomeishy Před měsícem +4

      Thank you! I thought I was the only one

  • @rionrace
    @rionrace Před měsícem +976

    What in the OSHA violation is that machine?!!!!

    • @NineSeptims
      @NineSeptims Před měsícem +77

      Hope those gloves are loose

    • @barnehurs
      @barnehurs Před měsícem +31

      😂 exactly what I was thinking when I saw that! How they used to do in the old days huh!?🙈

    • @user-ul1xq2db4f
      @user-ul1xq2db4f Před měsícem +56

      Back in these days it was survival of the fittest

    • @notreal9521
      @notreal9521 Před měsícem +27

      It seems that the rollers all rotate in the same direction, so things probably wouldn't get caught in it

    • @mildlydispleased3221
      @mildlydispleased3221 Před měsícem +47

      OSHA doesn't have jurisdiction in the UK.

  • @sn1667
    @sn1667 Před měsícem +128

    The visual and auditory innuendos in this video are breathtaking 😂

  • @dennyii5292
    @dennyii5292 Před měsícem +190

    The phrase *Suckable Size* bout knocked me out my chair 😂😂😂😂

    • @mikegrace
      @mikegrace Před měsícem +8

      Or even a soft spot for a good long tube

    • @charlesrhodes1089
      @charlesrhodes1089 Před měsícem +11

      ​@@mikegracefor those with a soft spot for a good long chew

    • @huangec
      @huangec Před měsícem

      You have very dirty mind... I like it! 😏

    • @gonkdroid9325
      @gonkdroid9325 Před měsícem +4

      Grow up

    • @localreviewking134
      @localreviewking134 Před 22 dny +1

      Where sweet meat becomes a sausage?

  • @spacecentergames
    @spacecentergames Před měsícem +574

    The film quality of the time has a unique look that is so satisfying ☺️

    • @Chad-Giga.
      @Chad-Giga. Před měsícem +26

      Because they actually used film

    • @DenkyManner
      @DenkyManner Před měsícem +18

      ​@@Chad-Giga.I think they mean the specific type of film stock gave a particular look.

    • @memati7199
      @memati7199 Před měsícem +11

      @@DenkyMannerExactly, the one above is totally oblivious to the meaning.

    • @dsandoval9396
      @dsandoval9396 Před měsícem +8

      Almost like it was from a different era. 🤔
      I'm just kidding. 😅
      This type of footage is very interesting.

    • @memati7199
      @memati7199 Před měsícem +3

      @@dsandoval9396 It is indeed, and i guess only the Brits were masters at it.

  • @michaelbolland9212
    @michaelbolland9212 Před měsícem +45

    This single piece has funded the dental industry in England for the past 24 years

  • @muttman325
    @muttman325 Před měsícem +86

    Think that factory burned down in the early 70's
    Lived near by. The smell was lovely.

    • @sami_got_vibes
      @sami_got_vibes Před měsícem +6

      Lmao fr?

    • @kwamz28
      @kwamz28 Před měsícem +6

      The smell of a burning building smelt lovely??? You monster! 😳

    • @rinibarwoto6419
      @rinibarwoto6419 Před měsícem +5

      How lucky you are.... Smell the candy everyday....

    • @barrycasey5171
      @barrycasey5171 Před 23 dny +4

      Don't think it did. It was definitely there in 88 as I worked bout 500 yards from it. You're right though. Great smell.

    • @gsd2085
      @gsd2085 Před dnem

      Do they still mk these?

  • @adewhite731
    @adewhite731 Před měsícem +59

    I just looked this up.
    The arsenic was added by mistake.
    At the time it was common to add random ingredients to bulk out the product, in this case it should have been powdered gypsum (basically plaster), but the supplier mistakenly supplied poison! 😮
    There was reportedly enough arsenic in each sweet to kill 2 adults.
    200 people were poisoned & 20 died.
    There was us thinking we had it bad with mirco-plastics!

    • @bendingspring
      @bendingspring Před 10 dny

      Yes, it’s sad, I read the original police report that’s online.
      Lots of young children died, a heartbreaking read 😥

    • @robertgift
      @robertgift Před 9 dny

      Thank you. Was anyone prosecuted?

    • @gonzaloarvietti7189
      @gonzaloarvietti7189 Před 7 dny

      And then what happened ??

  • @molliemae6855
    @molliemae6855 Před měsícem +288

    As an American I’ve never heard of a candy called Humbugs. I’ve only heard of bah humbug!

    • @joshuaevans5943
      @joshuaevans5943 Před měsícem +42

      Because it's a sweet mate

    • @atomictraveller
      @atomictraveller Před měsícem +21

      in the 1970s i remember picking sweets out of jars priced by the half penny and fresh napoleons. we moved to arizona in 1980, christ there's a lot of things you haven't ever heard of. eg. in u.k. "maltesers" are like u.s. "whoppers" but they're made out of sugar and taste nice instead of out of old sneakers and make you grow nine inches taller than normal.

    • @meagain3876
      @meagain3876 Před měsícem +22

      A humbug is a hard candy with a chewy centre.

    • @meagain3876
      @meagain3876 Před měsícem +12

      ​@@atomictravellerI remember when you could buy 4 teddy bear gummy sweets for 1p.
      Do you remember buying sweets in the 1970s with sixpences?
      In those days, there were far more florins and shillings than new 10ps and 5ps.
      Our local shopkeeper used to make her own ice lollies and sell them for 3p each.
      Blackcurrant or orange.
      I don't know what cordial/syrup she used, but they were far better than what we could make at home.

    • @be.A.b
      @be.A.b Před měsícem +2

      @@atomictravellerit’s not the whoppers it’s the growth hormone in all
      Our dairy

  • @LikeAGentlemanPlease
    @LikeAGentlemanPlease Před měsícem +77

    That fact about arsenic came out of nowhere and threw me all the way off.

  • @ScrimmyBingus42
    @ScrimmyBingus42 Před měsícem +26

    Something about these old British documentaries is such a V I B E

  • @wodekkuczynski9038
    @wodekkuczynski9038 Před 24 dny +12

    Just a few years ago, humbugs were manufactured in exactly the same way. It's hard work, the shaft from which the candies are made is very heavy, hot and slippery, in addition it deforms easily and you have to move it from the table to the machine, it was a challenge every time!

  • @melvynwalker7952
    @melvynwalker7952 Před měsícem +5

    First machine is called a batch roller, second one is called sizer machine with 4 different sizers, worked at a sweet factory for 20 years a suger boiler, miss those days.

  • @lmoore3rd
    @lmoore3rd Před měsícem +17

    The Hammond organ Mod music crowns this film.

  • @Rich-fr2yv
    @Rich-fr2yv Před měsícem +16

    I wonder how many of those bags ended up with severed fingers in them from all those exposed moving parts

  • @Freakinawesome333
    @Freakinawesome333 Před měsícem +83

    This sounds like something your dad would make up when you were a kid:
    "They make one really big sweet that's so heavy it takes two men to lift it! Then they put it into a machine that stretches it until it's really long and thin, and then they cut it into little pieces!"

  • @ugurunver2403
    @ugurunver2403 Před měsícem +37

    "Suckable size" you say? Interesting. What a creative and efficient way to excuse for the, uhm, really small candies.

  • @hulapineapple
    @hulapineapple Před měsícem +92

    Any more info about the arsenic poisoning that killed twenty people?

    • @user-ul1xq2db4f
      @user-ul1xq2db4f Před měsícem +24

      Legend has it 20 people died that day

    • @Jesse__H
      @Jesse__H Před měsícem +17

      They say is was arsenic in the candy

    • @Daggett1122
      @Daggett1122 Před měsícem +21

      It happened in 1858

    • @maynardtrendle820
      @maynardtrendle820 Před měsícem +11

      It was long ago. Around 1858. As well, arsenic was the cause.

    • @jimoconnor6382
      @jimoconnor6382 Před měsícem +10

      Now it's aspartame 😮

  • @stationlightyears1532
    @stationlightyears1532 Před 22 dny +1

    Strangely satisfying, on so many levels.

  • @sunilzala3909
    @sunilzala3909 Před měsícem +43

    Oa Margaret is a 10❤

  • @theghostofteddyperkins3687
    @theghostofteddyperkins3687 Před měsícem +12

    I have fond memories of this candy. Our Uncle Tickle Bug used to always have some in his pants pockets, and we'd sit on his lap and reach in to get some. Good memories

  • @JR-lo2ei
    @JR-lo2ei Před měsícem +13

    Those loose gloves near that roller got me puckering.

    • @misterdinkly
      @misterdinkly Před měsícem +2

      Sounds like my honeymoon

    • @MrRobarino
      @MrRobarino Před 26 dny

      The rotation of those rollers are all in the same direction, so even if you tried to get your hand stuck, it won't.

    • @JR-lo2ei
      @JR-lo2ei Před 26 dny +1

      @@MrRobarino I mean, I hope you're right. I just don't trust powerful motors doing anything near my fragile appendages.

  • @Laluan
    @Laluan Před měsícem +46

    Those machines look so dangerous 😂

    • @iffgc5826
      @iffgc5826 Před měsícem +9

      Back when men were men and lost an arm

    • @finddeniro
      @finddeniro Před měsícem +1

      ...So am I ..

    • @heckingbamboozled8097
      @heckingbamboozled8097 Před měsícem

      ​@iffgc5826 this is a joke, right? There's literally nothing manly about losing an arm to a workplace accident

    • @BananaHace
      @BananaHace Před měsícem

      ​@@iffgc5826 go lose yours then pal

  • @tomsoden1738
    @tomsoden1738 Před měsícem +25

    Proper teeth breakers. Chocolate eclairs are perfect for pulling out fillings.

  • @Secretgeek2012
    @Secretgeek2012 Před měsícem +18

    They were chocolate eclair bags!
    1950's disinformation!
    Also, my great grandad always had a jar of humbugs by his chair. It was a rare honour when he let you have one. 😊

    • @ashraf2661
      @ashraf2661 Před měsícem

      Well spotted !!

    • @willmfrank
      @willmfrank Před měsícem +3

      This is a short clip from a rather longer film. The chocolate eclair bags shot is the tail end of the previous segment. It's included because of the narration.

    • @ashraf2661
      @ashraf2661 Před měsícem +1

      @@willmfrank a lovely clip anyway !!

    • @bendingspring
      @bendingspring Před 10 dny

      The 60s were even worse!...........

  • @ontopoftheroof
    @ontopoftheroof Před měsícem +5

    If you find any body parts inside this bag, please return to Bensons Sweets Inc., Bury, Lancashire.

  • @H.M.SKingGeorgeV
    @H.M.SKingGeorgeV Před měsícem +10

    Margaret knew what she was doing, the way she was stroking that roll.

    • @chrishultgren777
      @chrishultgren777 Před měsícem +1

      grandpa was a lucky man

    • @Quinnaka
      @Quinnaka Před měsícem

      Great blunt rolling.

    • @H.M.SKingGeorgeV
      @H.M.SKingGeorgeV Před měsícem

      @@Quinnaka, what??

    • @Quinnaka
      @Quinnaka Před měsícem

      @@H.M.SKingGeorgeV the way the lady was touching the candy reminded me of rolling a blunt.

    • @H.M.SKingGeorgeV
      @H.M.SKingGeorgeV Před měsícem

      @@Quinnaka, do you jerk your blunts off??

  • @Garf_malarf
    @Garf_malarf Před měsícem +5

    “They say a woman’s work is never done” lmao

    • @mikethomas6051
      @mikethomas6051 Před 23 dny

      😂 That line got me too 😂 I guess Margaret is still there😅😅

    • @bendingspring
      @bendingspring Před 10 dny

      That’s why they don’t get paid as much.....
      Joke

    • @nkronert
      @nkronert Před 2 dny

      ​@@mikethomas6051 legend indeed has it...

  • @weseleyhansen2341
    @weseleyhansen2341 Před 14 dny

    "Suckable size just right for those with a soft spot for a good long chew" 😂😂 that phrase and the way he said it was perfect

  • @BlokeJuice
    @BlokeJuice Před měsícem +2

    "suckable size for those with a soft spot for a good long chew"
    I can't take that part seriously 😂

  • @CDN1975
    @CDN1975 Před měsícem +10

    Now I need Humbugs.

  • @user-kt4gl3kv1e
    @user-kt4gl3kv1e Před měsícem +3

    Why does nobody sound like this anymore. Like after the 60's people with this voice just vanished

  • @LethallyReptarded
    @LethallyReptarded Před 20 dny +2

    'A familiar suckable size' god if I had a penny for every time I've heard that

  • @razarmedia382
    @razarmedia382 Před měsícem +2

    Big up Bury 💪

  • @meagain3876
    @meagain3876 Před měsícem +7

    I wanted some mint humbugs last week, but they were out of stock.
    Disappointing.....
    Our family had a tour of a rock factory and watched them use a pulling machine. They then assembled the striped rock, very much like the humbugs were assembled, then stretched it out.
    However the resulting thin stripy rock was cut into sticks about a foot long, rather than the humbugs (which are cut into pieces about an inch long).
    To anyone who's not British, kids used to bring back sticks of rock for their friends whenever they had a holiday at the seaside. The rock had the name of the resort written through the middle.

  • @Redbird4912
    @Redbird4912 Před měsícem +5

    My Granddad loved these Humbugs and my Grandmother loved Devon Toffees 🍬🍬🍬

  • @eliasdeleone7059
    @eliasdeleone7059 Před 21 dnem +1

    That looks like a soul crushing career

  • @bdullhe
    @bdullhe Před měsícem

    Look closely behind that big machine. That Oompa Loompa was so cute.

  • @donbateman4660
    @donbateman4660 Před měsícem +7

    This entire time i had no idea they were called humbugs.

    • @JohnyG29
      @JohnyG29 Před měsícem

      So what did you call these sweets?

  • @bosupremo
    @bosupremo Před měsícem +5

    Interesting how they are referred to as old fashioned mint humbugs , back when this was filmed

    • @nicolab2075
      @nicolab2075 Před měsícem

      But they put them in bags labelled 'chocolate eclairs' 😊

    • @mareksicinski3726
      @mareksicinski3726 Před 24 dny

      They were from the 19th century at least

  • @Kunta-d8u
    @Kunta-d8u Před 12 dny

    Margaret and her subtle 1950’s “Hawk-Tou!”

  • @MsBamafanatic
    @MsBamafanatic Před měsícem +1

    Humbugs are usually made from a mixture of sugar and glycerin (sometimes gum replaces glycerin) and a flavoring agent, such as peppermint oil, which is then heated in a pan until the sugar melts and becomes sticky. The mixture is then poured out, and stretched and folded many times. A little color is added to the mixture, and during the folding process the colored parts separate out in layers. The mixture is finally rolled into a long, thin cylinder and sliced, and the lozenges take on a stripped appearance.
    Joseph Neal probably followed a recipe similar to the one described above, except for one notable difference-he didn’t use pure, unadulterated sugar. Back in the 19th century, when this story takes place, sugar was an expensive commodity, so it was not uncommon for confectioners to replace some of the sugar with ‘daff’-powdered limestone and plaster of Paris-to keep the cost of production low. Daff didn’t add to the sweetness of the finished product, but it kept the bulk intact enabling sweet sellers to keep their prices high.
    On 30 October 1858, Joseph Neal sent one his employee, James Archer, to collect daff from his druggist Charles Hodgson, whose pharmacy was 3 miles away at Baildon Bridge in Shipley. On arriving, Neal’s assistant discovered that Hodgson was ill in bed. The shop was instead staffed by an inexperienced apprentice named William Goddard.
    On receiving Archer’s request for daff, Goddard nipped out back to check with Hodgson, and was told that the daff was “in a cask in a corner of the attic.” Goddard found the cask and dutifully scooped out 12 pounds of the white powder and handed it to Archer. Unfortunately, there was more than one cask in the corner, and one of them contained arsenic trioxide, a toxic chemical used to treat cancer, psoriasis and syphilis. Goddard chose the wrong cask, and since both daff and arsenic trioxide looked somewhat alike, neither Goddard nor Archer was aware of the deadly sale they just made.
    James Archer handed the lethal package to James Appleton, another one of Neal’s employee, who actually made the sweets. Appleton mixed all twelve pounds of arsenic trioxide with sugar and gum to create at least forty pounds of peppermint humbugs. Exposure to the poison caused Appleton to fall sick with vomiting and pain in his hands and arms for several days after. At the time, he merely presumed he had caught a stomach bug.
    However, Appleton did notice that the humbugs looked different, an observation that Hardaker shared when the finished product was brought to him. Hardaker popped one into his mouth, probably to see whether they tasted different, and promptly fell ill. Surprisingly, like Appleton, Hardaker put the blame for his sudden illness to something else that he had eaten.
    That night, Hardaker sold five pounds of the sweets. By the next morning, two local children, aged eight and 11, were dead.
    Initially, the deaths were attributed to cholera, a disease that was rampant in Europe. But when more and more people began to take ill, a police investigation began. Suspicion eventually fell upon Hardaker’s humbugs. A chemical analysis of the sweets revealed each contained enough poison to kill two grown men.
    Officers and bell ringers spent the next day and night rushing around the district trying to warn as many people as possible about the danger. The alert likely saved countless lives. However, by then already seven adults and 13 children were dead and at least two hundred others were seriously ill. The youngest child to die was just 17 months old.
    Charges were brought against Goddard, Neal and Hodgson, but all three were acquitted of manslaughter because the prosecution were unable to prove if any law had been broken. Hardaker returned to the confectionery business after recovering from his own illness.

  • @Julian.watchingyt
    @Julian.watchingyt Před měsícem +4

    Gosh, I remember these sweets 🍬 at my Grandparents house.

  • @rogerscottcathey
    @rogerscottcathey Před měsícem +23

    I suppose Brits know what the hell "humbugs" are

    • @shadooku4427
      @shadooku4427 Před měsícem +12

      Yeah, it's what scrooge says when he's being humbuggy

    • @rogerscottcathey
      @rogerscottcathey Před měsícem +5

      @@shadooku4427 : bah!

    • @bear1245
      @bear1245 Před měsícem +3

      Well of course we do 😂
      Charles Dickens was English too…
      Do yanks have candy we don’t know then name of..

    • @seanivan5421
      @seanivan5421 Před měsícem +2

      They’re minty sugar mixed with toffee and they’re great

    • @misterdinkly
      @misterdinkly Před měsícem +1

      @bear1245
      But why are they called humbugs? Just a catchy name? Americans hate catchy names.

  • @D0ctorf0ster
    @D0ctorf0ster Před měsícem +1

    I love humbugs 😁 my grandad used to always have them in his pocket.

  • @julietellsthetruth4811

    See, this is why I like watching the company's that make it by hand and put it on video. You watch them add everything, so if somebody adds arsenic, there will be a record of it.

  • @caprise-music6722
    @caprise-music6722 Před měsícem +9

    I was so worried his hands would be shredded 😮

    • @Abtastix
      @Abtastix Před měsícem

      Don’t worry he got done in by the arsenic poisoning😅

  • @scottnyc6572
    @scottnyc6572 Před měsícem +8

    Stewie commentating

  • @andrearamsdall2657
    @andrearamsdall2657 Před měsícem +2

    Omg the language I forgot we used to say things without thinking about the double meaning 😂

    • @jasonward9429
      @jasonward9429 Před měsícem

      Oh I think he knew EXACTLY what he was saying.. The script was probably written by the "Carry On" team🤣🤣

    • @mareksicinski3726
      @mareksicinski3726 Před 24 dny

      It’s contextual and abt urself

  • @jastermereel6949
    @jastermereel6949 Před 22 dny

    Now I get what Trevor Phillips meant when he said he was going to “eat your sweetmeats!”😂

  • @LARGO125
    @LARGO125 Před 6 dny

    I have such a sick SICK sense of humor!😅

  • @TheRattyBiker
    @TheRattyBiker Před 8 hodinami

    Part of this process can still be witnessed today in Blackpool whilst making "Blackpool Rock" fascinating to see them layout the lettering on the "sausage" before throwing it in the conical rollers.

  • @bipolarbear7325
    @bipolarbear7325 Před měsícem

    That dude must have voiced a thousand films like this in the 1960's.

  • @awesomeperson3624
    @awesomeperson3624 Před měsícem +1

    67 still cleaner than todays india

  • @fridaythe13thpartx
    @fridaythe13thpartx Před 29 dny

    I want a mid 20th century advert guy to narrate my every day life.

  • @stevenriddle22
    @stevenriddle22 Před měsícem

    "They say a woman's work is never done.."
    George here is living the best life in the 1950s isn't he? Lol

  • @chrishultgren777
    @chrishultgren777 Před měsícem +1

    It was hazardous to be inattentive in the old days.

  • @neutralview8788
    @neutralview8788 Před 23 dny

    "They say a women's work is never done" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭 that's the good ol' days right there 😭

  • @Carstuff111
    @Carstuff111 Před 18 dny

    As an American, it is so very awesome to see vintage British "how its made" videos! Also, now I want to try these.....

  • @user-tw2ev4ou7o
    @user-tw2ev4ou7o Před 2 dny

    the girl getting credit for 60m is a wild statement

  • @82MLPGTS
    @82MLPGTS Před 21 dnem

    I was wondering how Tiny Tim got the way he was, that machine looks like it would mince your spine for a laugh

  • @ryang3097
    @ryang3097 Před 2 dny

    The pinch and crush points are unlimited in this factory.

  • @mcsquigly3342
    @mcsquigly3342 Před měsícem

    That rolling machine, while appearing dangerous, seems rather safe. The heated drums are spinning in opposite directions. Their supposed pinch-points are actually pushing instead of pulling, thats why the candy isn't being fed through the machine and instead is simply rolling atop. I'd say if your hand is caught, you were probably trying to make it that way.

  • @rubberneckinc.8937
    @rubberneckinc.8937 Před měsícem

    Love these older films

  • @johnconnell4231
    @johnconnell4231 Před 17 dny

    “Cor ‘orace how your”
    “Well all I did see, was pull, jet and wrestle me sweetmeat until it were a small reasonable size.”

  • @Francine5522
    @Francine5522 Před měsícem +2

    It looked like a head of hair and a limb to me at the beginning 😂😂😂

    • @petra5843
      @petra5843 Před měsícem +1

      I thought it was a blonde wig!😂🤦

  • @Arun43647
    @Arun43647 Před měsícem

    It's funny, the narrator talks about the 'old fashioned' humbug! 🤔 😂

  • @baedanbutler5995
    @baedanbutler5995 Před 23 dny

    My dad use to fix them machines in the 2000s along with coating pans and stuff amazing the amount of stuff he modernised but had been in continuous use for the last 50 60 years 😅

  • @huhwhatomg
    @huhwhatomg Před měsícem

    This is the voice Conan Obrien always does 😂

  • @gerhaldlaubscher8321
    @gerhaldlaubscher8321 Před měsícem

    Loved those sweets growing up!

  • @nicadair7700
    @nicadair7700 Před měsícem +2

    The 35mm film of yesteryear making today's digital efforts look absolute 💩🤣

  • @SuperHeaphy
    @SuperHeaphy Před 15 dny

    'This is when sweet meat becomes a saussage' 😂

  • @drpk6514
    @drpk6514 Před 18 dny

    "A woman's work is never done"! Hadn't heard that before.

  • @f554uv1
    @f554uv1 Před 2 dny

    Even in 1967, these humugs were trying to reproduce "old fashioned" humbug. I wonder how old it is, and how they were originally made.

  • @AleksandarIvanov69
    @AleksandarIvanov69 Před 23 dny

    I see where that one Rick and Morty joke came from 😂

  • @Czeslaw9426
    @Czeslaw9426 Před 16 dny

    My dyslexic brain read humbug as hamburgre and i was very concerned for a wee moment

  • @ricofournier2540
    @ricofournier2540 Před měsícem

    I loved those after dinner very nice candy😮

  • @kindatim
    @kindatim Před měsícem

    Ahh, so this is the himbug everybody's been shouting about.

  • @williambbq
    @williambbq Před 19 dny

    Grandma: “Kids these days are too lazy”
    Grandma’s job in 1967: rubbing her hand over humbugs that are in the roller

  • @dclas1
    @dclas1 Před 17 dny +1

    OSHA considers this a horror film.

  • @RustyShacklefordsGribble-lw5dc

    Humbug's? We used to get these on Halloween as kids. Took nearly 4 decades but I finally figured out what they were called!

  • @knine1652
    @knine1652 Před 15 dny

    Margaret deserves a raise.

  • @dadladtv8321
    @dadladtv8321 Před 9 dny

    Nice shout out to Bury! 😁😁😁

  • @Kakascrot
    @Kakascrot Před 25 dny

    Love humbugs, got a big jar of them in the kitchen, often needs refilled

  • @AndyMorris-ix1yz
    @AndyMorris-ix1yz Před měsícem +1

    used to watch this at Bridlington its absolutly brill

  • @michaelfink64
    @michaelfink64 Před 13 dny

    Who else was freaking out about how close their hands were to those giant rollers? OH&S has come a long way since the 1960s.

  • @charliesimpson3658
    @charliesimpson3658 Před 17 dny

    Bro wrestling the humbug into the machine looking like Piper Perri

  • @harrys1848
    @harrys1848 Před 19 dny

    Can tell its old school. Zero gaurding around all the moving components.

  • @InternetJosh
    @InternetJosh Před měsícem

    No matter if modern machines, old craftsmanship or a mix of the two:
    I will never not be amazed by candy making processes

  • @Chetterhummin88990
    @Chetterhummin88990 Před měsícem

    Dentists everywhere owe their fortunes to this machines

  • @boxcatgames537
    @boxcatgames537 Před měsícem

    this one of the many old candies that are still around today altough the machine parts are rare

  • @Vergil904Gaming
    @Vergil904Gaming Před 28 dny

    Heh the pulling machine, that’s what they called me in high school

  • @demcadman
    @demcadman Před 23 dny

    That music gives it a 60s hip, Austin Powers vibe. I dig it. Groovy baby!😅

  • @criminalitycollective
    @criminalitycollective Před 27 dny

    The my favorite murder podcast just presented on the arsenic candy poisoning this week. Apparently sugar was very expensive back then so candymakers would go to the pharmacy to get a replacement (forgot the replacement name) but the day this one candy maker went there was a young boy on duty because the pharmacist was sick and he mixed up this replacement sugar with arsenic because they are both white powders…

  • @kkupsky6321
    @kkupsky6321 Před měsícem

    It was the summer of love. The air smelled better and the lsd and cannibis flowed but the music… oh the music made it. Like this silliness behind poor Margaret who was just trying to earn a living. Didn’t we teach you anything during the war?