One of the main industries in Talpa is candy making. The fruit and sugar is melted in these HUGE rotating copper pots and cooked until it is of a taffy consistency.
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| Copper cooker |
It's then poured onto a slab, cut and rolled, then wrapped for sale.
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| Candy Roll |
They also sell "bubble gum" which is some type of chewable gum from a local tree. It is dyed and made into fantastic shapes such as baskets, flowers, bugs, and sold to tourists. I bought a few of these and tried them. They don't taste very good, but it's a fun experiment to try!
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| gum flowers |
There is shop after colorful shop full of these and other goodies:
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