[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 156 (Friday, September 10, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E962]
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                       HONORING RUTH HUNT CANDIES

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                             HON. ANDY BARR

                              of kentucky

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 10, 2021

  Mr. BARR. Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize a wonderful Kentucky 
business, Ruth Hunt Candies. The business, located in Mount Sterling, 
is celebrating 100 years of providing delicious candy to its customers.
  Ruth Tharpe Hunt's family, friends, and especially her bridge club 
loved her homemade sweets. In 1921 she opened a small store in her home 
and began selling her candy to the public. The business quickly outgrew 
her home, and she built a small factory on Mt. Sterling's Main Street. 
Ruth Hunt ran the business with her daughter Emily Peck until the 
1960s. Emily ran the business until 1988, when the Kezele family and 
Tobby Moore took over and expanded into a comprehensive factory 
complex. Throughout the years, the business has kept the same idea--
``Produce the highest quality chocolates to make the customers happy.''
  Favorite confections include Kentucky Pulled Cream Candy, Caramels, 
Mallows, and Kentucky Bourbon Balls. The company's most famous product, 
however, is Ruth Hunt's Blue Monday Bar. This product has been produced 
for over 80 years and has been called a ``Blue Monday'' ever since a 
traveling minister told Ruth Hunt that ``every Monday I must have a 
little sweet to help me through my blue Monday!''
  Ruth Hunt Candies has stores in Mount Sterling and Lexington, 
Kentucky. Its products are sold in retail shops throughout the region 
and around the world. Products have been provided as gifts from the 
horse farms of the Bluegrass to the White House.
  Over the past 100 years, Ruth Hunt Candies has provided high-quality 
candy to customers and jobs to the local economy. Started in Ms. Hunt's 
kitchen, the growth and longevity over 100 years is impressive. I 
congratulate this wonderful business on their 100th anniversary. It is 
my honor to recognize Ruth Hunt Candies before the United States 
Congress.

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