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10-20-2025, 07:29 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/remember-lucille-balls-iconic-chocolate-032500900.html
Amber Sutherland-Namako
Sun, October 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM PDT
3 min read
Lucille Ball as television's Lucy with a mouth full of chocolates and an oversized chocolate box in the frame. - Static Media / Shutterstock / Getty
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For as truly iconic as "I Love Lucy" is, it can be easy to forget how many culinary moments the black-and-white 1950s television classic had. Lucy herself pitched boozy Vitameatavegamin in proto show-within-a-show fashion, baked a bit too much bread in her homesteading efforts, and stomped grapes for vino in Italy, even as the nation had already embraced automated wine making. And then, there was the sweetest scene of them all: Lucy and her best pal Ethel wrapping candy — at first — on a two-woman factory assembly line. Spoiler alert: It does not go great. But business at See's Candies, where Lucille Ball and co-star Vivian Vance trained for the episode, boomed, and the big chain remains operational today.
Ball and Vance engaged in a little method acting at See's La Cienega Boulevard kitchen in Los Angeles, California, in 1952, a mere year after the show's premiere. A La Cienega factory still churns out confections all these decades later, just with actual professionals at the helm to ensure quality, as hilarious as the comedy duo's bit might have been. And, with more than a couple hundred brick and mortar stores, plus nationwide shipping, you can reenact Lucy and Ethel's candy-eating adventure right in your own home, no toque required.
Amber Sutherland-Namako
Sun, October 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM PDT
3 min read
Lucille Ball as television's Lucy with a mouth full of chocolates and an oversized chocolate box in the frame. - Static Media / Shutterstock / Getty
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.
For as truly iconic as "I Love Lucy" is, it can be easy to forget how many culinary moments the black-and-white 1950s television classic had. Lucy herself pitched boozy Vitameatavegamin in proto show-within-a-show fashion, baked a bit too much bread in her homesteading efforts, and stomped grapes for vino in Italy, even as the nation had already embraced automated wine making. And then, there was the sweetest scene of them all: Lucy and her best pal Ethel wrapping candy — at first — on a two-woman factory assembly line. Spoiler alert: It does not go great. But business at See's Candies, where Lucille Ball and co-star Vivian Vance trained for the episode, boomed, and the big chain remains operational today.
Ball and Vance engaged in a little method acting at See's La Cienega Boulevard kitchen in Los Angeles, California, in 1952, a mere year after the show's premiere. A La Cienega factory still churns out confections all these decades later, just with actual professionals at the helm to ensure quality, as hilarious as the comedy duo's bit might have been. And, with more than a couple hundred brick and mortar stores, plus nationwide shipping, you can reenact Lucy and Ethel's candy-eating adventure right in your own home, no toque required.