Day 6: Candy Canes

Let’s talk candy canes.

When I first decided to do them I thought I would have to settle down and get ready for a looooong research sessions. Interestingly enough, I didn’t. There’s very little candy cane history out there. I looked in books and all over the Internet and read the same thing over and over again. Finally, I admitted to myself that there was nothing else to find out, and that I would have to be happy with what I had. Hopefully, you will be too.

I give you “The Very Short Story of Candy Canes and Christmas.”

Candy Corn: WHY CAN’T I STOP EATING THIS STUFF!?

Candy corn. That Halloween staple that is never advertised but somehow ends up in your home in a bowl in an extremely accessible place anyway. What’s with that? You don’t really like it that much. It’s just sorta…eh.

Pleeeease make it stooooopppp.

Candy corn hasn’t always elicited the shoulder shrug and “eh” reaction. In fact, it used to be a pretty big deal. Its agrarian shape made it a hit with farmers and its innovative tri-color design was an exciting novelty. I know. It’s strange to think of candy corn as “innovative.”

Even Thomas Edison considers candy corn an innovation, and that guy was one heck of an innovator.