From manger mishaps to druncle debacles, we present our favourite holiday First Person essays | Sugar Packing Machine

Weekly Roundup: Gold Coast Ingredients opens new S.M.A.R.T. Center, Campbell Soup names Clouse as new CEO

But on the same thoroughfares, Mr. Hamoud noticed something that filled him with shame: The streets were visibly cleaner than they had been when the Iraqi government was in charge.

Taichiro Morinaga, the founder of the company behind Hi-Chew, grew up poor in Japan. In 1888, at 23, he moved to the United States, where he experienced candy for the first time and decided to become a candy maker. Eleven years later, he opened the Morinaga Western Confectionery Shop in Tokyo, and in 1918 it was the first Japanese candy company to produce chocolate. Years later, while searching for a gumlike candy that you can actually swallow so as to avoid the rude act of removing food from your mouth, he came up with the predecessor of the Hi-Chew, a Starburst-like candy with a softer texture. Since 1975, more than 170 Hi-Chew flavors have been on the market. The latest: Açaí, pineapple and caramel apple.

It might seem counterintuitive to make candy from a fruit that the writer Richard Sterling said smelled like ‘‘pig-[expletive], turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock.’’ The taste of the massive, spiky fruit is also bizarre — a custardy, sweet flavor with a savory vibe — often described as whipped cream with a hint of garlic or, as the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace wrote, ‘‘occasional wafts of flavor that call to mind cream-cheese, onion-sauce, sherry-wine and other incongruous dishes.’’ Nonetheless, Durian candy is a coveted souvenir from Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Though it has its fans, durian candy has also been the subject of videos like ‘‘Trying the Worst Candy Ever!’’ and ‘‘Durian Candy Reaction.’’

The Form-Fill-Seal Machines Market 2018 report focuses on all the key geographical regions of the industry- North America, Europe, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, India. The report also studies several subregions that provide greater and more detailed insights into the development of the industry.

The results of tests on counterfeit goods confiscated in the last one month have been “shocking”, he said.

One Christmas, Linda bought the kids a plastic manger scene. She wanted the children to interact with the figures, play with the players, major and minor.

With change sweeping the region, residents were forced to make fraught choices, among them: Stay or leave, rebel or accommodate.

Although the shop provides containers, customers will be encouraged to bring their own pots, jars and bags to fill. Live Zero will also operate a recycling scheme, where cleaned pots and jars can be donated to be used by others. Thornburrow also hopes to initiate a composting system in the backyard.

To extend Garcia’s simile, albeit imperfectly, that would make salty licorice — salmiakki in Finland, where they consume the most potent flavors — the candy equivalent of a 47-minute version of “Dark Star.” Meaning, for superfans only.

The global pharmacy repackaging systems market continues to expand at a high growth rate. This expansion is driven by the increasing number of medication errors and rising need to improve patient safety. The global pharmacy repackaging systems market is projected to expand at a significant growth rate in the next few years due to rising awareness about benefits of automated systems among health care providers and pharmacists. Incorporating packaging operations within the facility helped hospitals (and also long-term care and retail pharmacies) decrease the costs associated with wasted medication and improve their drug inventory management. Costs are curbed by packaging bulk medication, instead of purchasing pre-packed unit doses from the manufacturer. The pharmacy repackaging systems market is also driven by technological features that allow end-users to incorporate technologies to strengthen their entire process workflow toward enhancing patient safety. High cost of implementation and lack of awareness about benefits of pharmacy repackaging technologies are key factors that are likely to restrain the market.

Kikyouya, originally a small, family-run sweet shop that specialized in kintsuba, a Japanese sweet filled with red-bean paste, has been making shingen mochi since the late 1960s. A single package of Kikyou shingen mochi is complex, but it’s also small — small enough to fit in your palm — and contained in a flexible plastic box that’s wrapped in a soft sheet of pretty, floral-printed plastic and sealed with a topknot. It’s messy to eat, or at least it can be, but the clever packaging considers this: The wrapping itself doubles as a tiny tablecloth to prevent stains and spills. Before I knew this, I ate shingen mochi in my hotel room, as Tokyo was being soaked by the outermost edges of a passing typhoon. With my first bite, I sent a little cloud of roasted soybean powder into the air and coughed with surprise. The rice cakes were soft, chewy, delicious. And where the brown-sugar syrup trapped the powder, it turned into a gorgeous caramel sludge. I couldn’t quite imagine how a sweet like this, one defined by such varied textures, and by such a distinct form, could ever be transformed into a chocolate bar.