Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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CANDYMAN An Aggieville candy store provides wide variety of treats for candy lovers By Steve Swafford amost everyone has a sweet tooth and has a little kid inside of us that stares in awe at the mouth-watering sights of sugary sweets and chocalaty candy. Catering to area sweet tooths is Don Pickering, owner of The Candyman, not inc., in Aggieville. You can ' t get saturated enough with candy, said. There is always another texture or mixture you can go to. Pickering said there is as much diversity in candy as other foods. The Candyman, not inc., is not incorporated because it is a family-owned business. Our major workday is Sunday and early in the before customer hours, Pickering said. During the week, Pickering and his son Don Pickering Jr., who co- manages the store, make fudge. The Pickerings started their own fudge process in last and make 28 kinds of fudge in the store. Our most popular fudge is the plain, nutted fudge, Pickering Jr. said. One hour ' s work will make up to 43 pounds of fudge. The Pickering operation is a wholesale and retail business, serving the Manhattan area with candy. The Ice Cream Works, a new Manhattan business which opened at the beginning of the school year, has recently started carrying the Pickering-made fudge. The fudge has been selling well and I think we will to sell it, Marty manager of The Ice Cream Works, said. said the most popular fudge at his store has been the peanut butter flavor. The Candyman, not inc., wholesales its goods to places in Emporia, Topeka and serves as the sole supplier for the Sweet Shop in Fort Riley. We don ' t speak in terms of ounces and pounds, we speak in terms of tons, Pickering Jr. said. The Candyman, not inc., carries six to eight tons of merchandise all the time. We buy from over 100 manufacturers in 30 countries to get over 1,200 items, Pickering Jr. said. The store carries chocolate from Belgium, England, Switzerland and the United States, with the most expensive chocolate being $22 a pound from Belgium. The Jelly Belly is the largest single seller in the store. The store carries 41 different flavors with the mixed one the best seller of all, Pickering Sr. said. Christmas, Valentine ' s Day and Easter are the busiest seasons for the Pickerings. At Easter last year, the Candy Store had 500 baskets hanging from the ceiling. Novelty items such as pure chocolate santas and bunnies are popular items, according to Pickering. All ranges in age come in, said Pickering, from 4 to 90, serving every member of the family. TAKE YOUR PICK — Customers of the Candyman, not inc., had a wide variety of candy to choose from to satisfy any person ' s sweet tooth. Photo by Allen Eyestone Candyman, not inc. 25

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WELCOME SIGN — The smiling face of the candyman welcomes customers to the Aggieville candy store. The store has been in operation for five years. — Photo by Allen Eyestone POUND BY POUND — Co-owner of The Candyman, not inc., Don Sr., weighs out chocolate for a young customer. The store sold candies in addition to homemade and domestic candies. Photo by Allen Eyestone 24 Candyman, not inc.

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thrive on alcoh prefer not Yes, the nation may well facing a sobering future, and at K-State and on other Everyone has the option to decide to drink or not, in turn not everyone needs alcohol or beer to have a good time. This is evident by the decline last year of the consumption of distilled spirits in the United States, which dropped 2.6 per- cent according to a report in a May 2, 1983, issue of Business Week, entitled, Distillers Must Cope with a Sobering Future. This article focused on the decline of alcoholic consume drinks, a health-minded public, and a bill to raise taxes on liquor. a university campuses, there are students who do not drink. tion due to, competing soft past your own drink or not. Suzanne Larkin or self-conscious doesn ' t seem to be a factor or a problem with the non-drinking student. I have never been oud and obnoxious, ord, West, Haymaker, Tied by my peers, even in high ke up with and Putnam, have school. All my friends that oors or corridors that are drink respect me for making assified as being dry while the decision not to drink, the FarmHouse fraternity, that Boyd Hall is totally dry. All Cleion Whitebread said. decision is based on tradition. sororities are dry houses, Being in control, remember- We have never had beer while only two fraternities ing one ' s actions and taking alcohol in our house or at ow prohibit the consumption of care of one ' s body all play a functions. It ' s a private alcohol or beer within their significant role in the attitudes sion which has worked out respective living areas, j of non-drinkers. well. We are unique in tha Those residents who not I don ' t like to see people respect, but we are not boring allow any alcohol or beer, in- out of control and I don ' t want We also don ' t ever have to cluding 3.2 beer, tend to be to ever get that way myself, so stumble over drunk people in more orientated toward group don ' t drink, Angela Griffin the house the morning after a activities, according to Cleion junior in history and resident party, Dave Carlin, senior in Whitebread, junior in secon- of West Hall, said, political science and president dary education and staff on Non-drinking students still of the fraternity, said. Ford attend parties and functions. We do more things I ' d rather drink a Dr. Pepper together as a floor I think, per than a beer, but I still can a definite reaction to the non because we are dry and fewer have a good time at parties, drinking population, accor of us go down to the bars, but and I don ' t feel out of place, ding to Wolf. I really like it because it seems Steve Wolf, junior in secon- It ' s based on quieter and a better studying dary education and resident of I think; it ' s an individual deci environment. I think that is Haymaker Hall, which society doesn ' t why a lot of people choose to When you ' re not drinking even really think about. live on a dry floor, she said. or drunk, you know what you just accept And I don ' t drink because I are doing and in turn don ' t do deal. don ' t want to; I never had the stupid things, he desire. People are more conscious ever have and never ve a good time one these students are not as hard to find as one might believe. drunk. Five K-State residence halls, nts are one their bodies. More people who drink are drinking lite beers. they are more concerned. I choose not to drink at all; it my decision, he added. It is an individual decision, whether to drink or not and in Society does not really have Illustration by Rob Clark,