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"Food and music were the only things I ever wanted to do" is the way Mackenzie Colt explains how she went from being a "Hee Haw Honey" to owning her own candy business. "I grew up in a family where no one cooked. Sunday dinner was about the only homecooked meal we ever had, so when I got married at fifteen, I started reading cookbooks like they were novels," said Mackenzie. "Once I learned to cook, it was time to start experimenting and making up my own recipes." One of those made-up recipes became the now famous Colt's Bolts, the best selling product of her candy company.Mackenzie's father was a professional baseball player with the St. Louis Browns. She was born in Memphis when her family moved there for her dad to manage the Memphis Chicks, a semi-pro baseball team. A short time after her birth, her family moved back to St. Louis where she spent her childhood years.From her youth, she wrote and sang her own songs. When she married, she used those talents to put her husband through college and law school. What started out as a "gig" in the lounge of a St. Louis hotel ended up with Mackenzie opening for Buck Owens concerts for the next two years. Buck and the Buckeroos were performing in the showroom of the hotel where I was singing. "After they finished each night, the band members would come into the lounge to relax. Within a few days, they brought Buck in to hear me and he hired me to be his opening act," explains Mackenzie. "After two years of performing with him, Buck introduced me to the Hee Haw executives. At that time, Barbie Benton was leaving the show, and Buck suggested that I audition. I did along with thousands of others, and I was hired. The rest is history."

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