I saved a candy store from running out of buisness

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>Be 2 years ago
>Growing up in North Carolina
>Searching for first job cause teenage me gotta have that money
>Candy store I used to go to is running low on business but has a job opening
>Pretty much the only candy store for miles, used to have high quality shit back then, but fell when people stopped traveling and workers were leaving
>Shit pay as expected
>Hired on the spot because fuck this store is doing poorly
>They have shitty ways of making candies
>One candy they make is called "Carolina Gems" and as hard as fucking diamonds and barely ever dissolves in your mouth, taste is barely there
>Turns out it's made with shitty artificial lemon/line juices dried into powder, and only a few ml of trace amounts of tropical fruits all crystallized in a potassium and water mixture tub for at least 4-6 weeks
>I was given the task to harvest the sharp fuckers from the mesh they had suspended in the tub
>The whole mesh was completely covered in crystals that were impossible to take off by hand
>Had to use a hammer and nail to chisel off the meshes
>The smell was meh so I decide to try a piece
>Nearly cut my cheek and chipped my tooth
>No sweetness what so ever
>Asked if the previous makers ever put sugar in it
>Says crystals don't form correctly if they throw sugar in it
>So I thought of a better way; put sugar in the crystals half way through their formations, maybe even break off a few pieces to fit the sugars and maybe even food dyes to give the candy personality
>This also softens the candies up a little bit, so they dissolve better in your mouth
>More people began coming back once this stores signature candy started tasting better
>Recognized by North Carolina as one of the few best candy stores in the entire state
>mfw sweeting Carolina by nailing diamonds