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Kerr Brothers Limited (using the brand "Kerr's") is a candy manufacturer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
History
Kerr brothers Edward and Albert Kerr immigrated from Scotland to Canada in 1895 and opened a bakery.[1] The brothers opened their first factory in Brantford, Ontario in 1898. The brothers moved to Toronto in 1904.[1]
Products
A form of molasses candy taffy, known as "hallowe'en kisses", is produced in time for the Hallowe'en occasion.[2] The candy was first offered by Kerr's in the 1940s. At the time, a molasses candy was made by Stewart and Young in Glasgow.[2] A recipe for the candy appeared in the 1887 White House cook book.[2] Its ingredients are corn syrup, sugar, blackstrap molasses, coconut oil, salt, cotton stearine, mono and diglycerides, soy lecithin and artificial flavour.[3] After a 2016 CBC online survey placed the molasses candy dead last, the CBC interviewed the company's president Ryan Martic, who admitted that within the company people liked/disliked the candy 50/50.[4]