![]() Not a fan of sugar? The barn is also known for its jigsaw puzzles, jerkeys, syrups, meats, salsas and pumpkin prices (only $3.98 for any size pumpkin…and they have some BIG ones!). They have areas designated to sour candy, gumballs, licorice, gummies, European candy, hard candy, taffies, suckers, caramel, character candy and more. ![]() The big yellow barn sells more than 3,000 varieties of candy sectioned off by type. While still a family business that bases its sales on word of mouth and straight cash, they are succeeding in modern day sans a website, a credit card machine, and – weirdest of all – a phone number. Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store started out as Jim’s Apple Farm, with growing and selling apples as the main family business…until 2005, when Robert Wagner decided to embrace a couple bad apple harvests and convert the barn into what could probably be deemed the most unique retail space in Minnesota. Selling candies from all over the world, soda bottles in unique varieties, chips and salsa, pumpkins, baked goods, jerky, flavored licorice, popcorn and taffy, thousands of jigsaw puzzles and novelty gifts, and of course the classic stuff you used to find at the local corner gas station when you were kids (yes, they have candy cigarettes and cow tails), this place will never fail to surprise you! Walking into this building makes the diabetic in me want to cower into the fetal position, but so long as I bring my will power and some cash, everyone in our family has a wonderfully delicious time here. It’s impossible to miss the candy barn for two main reasons: 1) It sits directly along Hwy 169 and 2) Yellow painted fencing lines a full mile of the highway leading up to it. (Also, on chillier weather days, be sure to visit Zap Arcade for hot summer days, visit Lagoon Park). ![]() Our family annually (and sometimes more than annually) takes the road trip to Jim’s Apple Farm, which is now more famously called Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store, located in Jordan just south of Chaska. I was almost more excited to take him to this big, glorious yellow barn than I was my three young kiddos. Born with a prominent sweet tooth, which has only grown with him into his 30s, he is a sucker for anything made of 98% sugar. ![]() That’s the word my husband would use to describe Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store. So what are you waiting for? Go out and get yourself a pack of wax bottles and share a memory or two with your kids as you relive the good ol' days of childhood.MINNESOTA’S LARGEST CANDY STORE JORDAN, MN Packed in cute 5-bottle packs, you get the novelty of wax candy made with super tart juice flavors that Cry Baby candy fans know and love. If you are looking for a new sour candy, then this is your lucky day! The super sour Cry Baby Sour Mini Drinks assortment includes five extra sour fruit flavors: Lectric Lime, Overload Orange, Lightning Lemon, Chargin' Cherry, and Blastin' Blue Raspberry. Chew ‘Em - Chew the wax, just like gum! New Cry Baby Sour Candy Wax Bottles These classic nostalgic treats are still very popular because they are actually really tasty and incredibly fun to eat! 1/2" wide), but they both feature flavored juices (cherry, orange, lemon, apple, and blue raspberry) inside the wax. 1" wide) tall and Magic Sticks are about 4 1/2" long (and approx. However, their wax candy division was sold to Concord Confections in 2002 and is now part of Tootsie Roll Industries, who now is the overhead of the sale of Nik-L-Nips, as well as wax lips, wax fangs, and even wax mustaches under the name Wack-O-Wax. Today, the company is still in business, specializing in making old-fashioned hard candies. The "nip" is also attributed to a "nip" of whiskey (small bottle holding one shot).īest known as the inventor of wax lips, The American Candy Company was founded in 1899 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and moved to Selma, Alabama in 1939. The name combines the original cost of a "Nickel" and "nip" which is the usual method of opening up these tiny wax bottles. Officially called "Nik-L-Nips" and "Magic Sticks". " Wax bottles" and " wax pipes" are the more common names that refer to what The American Candy Company Read to find out more about this classic chewy candy treat! Retro Wax Candy Remember when you were a kid and you had those cool little wax bottles with juice in them? Of course you do! And did you know that you can still get them? Bet ya' didn't! Well, they've been around for a while and they are still as much fun as they were back then.
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