On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari
Step into a Candy Wonderland at Bulk Candy Store in West Palm Beach
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Bulk Candy Store in West Palm Beach is an explosion of candy and the joy!
Bulk Candy Store in West Palm Beach is an explosion of candy and the joy that comes with reconnecting with its sugary memories. Frank visits Ken Shenkman, a co-owner of the store. Ken is a self-described “candy nerd” who operates the store that has become a West Palm Beach landmark. Besides a well-stocked selection of current candies, this is also the place to go for vintage candies.
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On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari is a local public television program presented by WPBT
Palm Beach County Tourist Development Council
On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari
Step into a Candy Wonderland at Bulk Candy Store in West Palm Beach
Clip: Season 7 | 2m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Bulk Candy Store in West Palm Beach is an explosion of candy and the joy that comes with reconnecting with its sugary memories. Frank visits Ken Shenkman, a co-owner of the store. Ken is a self-described “candy nerd” who operates the store that has become a West Palm Beach landmark. Besides a well-stocked selection of current candies, this is also the place to go for vintage candies.
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I'm going to do a lot of eating while I'm here.
Is that okay?
Because I. I have a lot of candy.
I have a PhD in research psychology.
Amazing.
And of course, that translated perfectly into opening up a candy store.
Of course, because I love candy.
I love that.
How do you how do you get into this?
I got into this because my family, my brother started this years ago.
He started selling candy at state fairs and festivals all over the country, like at the South Florida Fair.
And then he kind of built it up to a while, and I was doing corporate work and I said, I don't like it, I'm going to go sell candy.
And I've never looked back.
20 years later.
I love.
That.
We've grown over the years and it's changed a lot, but it's a lot of fun, especially dealing with people, because you get to see smiles and people walk in.
You're not going to believe it.
They walk in and say, I'm like a kid in a candy store.
That's exactly how you feel.
Literally and figuratively.
We do specialize in a lot of things people haven't seen in a long.
Time, and you've got you run the gamut because you've got packaged candies, but you also have there's a whole chocolate section up there too.
We have chocolate that we make in-house.
We have about 70 flavors of popcorn.
And then we also have a selection of just bulk candies that we bring in for people who want to try just a little bit of this, a little bit of that salt water taffy and hard candies.
And there's a lot of retro candies in there too.
We try and bring back the stuff that people remember from when they were kids.
It's just a store, but it's also almost feels like a little bit of a museum, almost a little bit for families, right?
We actually consider it a destination because people can come.
They can get candy they haven't seen in forever.
They can get a lot of candy.
And then we have our candy tour, which is a one hour guided tour of the history of candy from ancient times to.
More modern candy to show you how candy is made.
And we even have a candy room decorated in candy.
We have a lot of really cool stuff in here, a lot of nostalgia.
This is stuff from the original Willy Wonka movie.
This is a golden ticket signed by each of the kids that played in the original movie.
Wow.
We like to think Candy is happy.
It is happy.
We like to make people happy.
Tasting like you.
Don't forget what something tastes like.
It brings you back to when you were 4 or 5 years old.
Exactly right.
Oh yeah, that's pretty powerful stuff.
That maybe I'll use my psychology.
Come on and we'll start here.
This is what I do, Ken.
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