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We are at Preston's Candy & Ice Cream
in Burlingame, California.
My name is Irene Preston, and I've been the owner of
Preston's for about 10 years.
Preston's has been in business since 1946
so we're a 63-year-old company.
We sell candy and ice cream.
We make the majority of the candy here, and the ice cream,
and we have 40 flavors of ice cream, and lots of candy.
People shop here on a regular basis;
it's part of their lifestyle.
We get customers from when they're babies, on.
So this is where we pack all the boxes and we keep all the candy
finished candy in here.
So like, at Christmas time, all the shelves will be filled
with these boxes.
So I'm trying--this is a milk chocolate cherry?
A cordial cherry, right.
You've gotta put it all in your mouth.
See what I'm saying?
He's gonna make Thin Mints.
It looks like it's the easiest candy, right?
Three layers: Two chocolate and the one in the middle is mint.
The problem is that these materials don't like each other.
And so it's real easy to have this candy fall apart in pieces.
So it's technique, you have to then make sure that the top
layer of the mint is at the right place to be able to accept
the chocolate, and it's very tricky.
We just do everything the old-style way.
And it's a very small batch.
So this is as close as you'll ever get to really fresh candy.
And that's why my customers are very loyal, because once you
taste something really good you don't go back to something that
you'll just settle for.