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08.05.2022 - 09:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Think of a food associated with Wigan and the first thing that springs to mind is probably wrapped in pastry. But for almost 125 years, one family business has been putting the town on the map for an entirely different delicacy.
Uncle Joe's Mint Balls have been keeping us 'all aglow' since 1898 and the recipe has been handed down through four generations over that time. The sweets are produced by William Santus and Co - a company which has seen six British monarchs, survived two world wars and is now looking to the future after being hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
Almost a million sweets are made every week at the company's Dorning Street factory, which has been the home of Uncle Joe's for more than a century. On trains between Glasgow and London, hundreds pass by the building's iconic, red gable end every day.
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"People expect us to be massive but we're not," Anita Taulty, sales and office manager at Willam Santus and Co, tells the Manchester Evening News as she leads a tour through the factory. "We are national - and international - but we are tiny."
The company is certainly bigger now than it began back in 1898. Ellen Santus, William's wife, began producing the sweets in the kitchen at the back of their terraced home on Platt Lane.
A dressmaker by profession, she produced the secret recipe for Uncle Joe's Mint Balls with just three natural ingredients and devised the handmade process for the perfect sweet - which remains the same today. The sweets were sold on William's fruit and vegetable stall at Wigan Market and the family never looked back.
Today, the business is in the hands of brothers John and
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