- After all, it's October this month and it's almost Halloween!
Do you know these candy fun facts like Mike and Ike came out in 1940? There are so many more fun facts about candy to come!
- There’s a streetlight in Hershey Pennsylvania that is shaped like a Hershey Kiss.
- Hershey, Pennsylvania is home to the World Headquarters for the Hershey Chocolate Company and was named after a naming contest that failed.
- The name Hershey (the chocolate) started as Hersheykoko and was shortened to the former after the post office and Milton Hershey’s wife rejected the name. Did you know these candy fun facts?
- The only kind of licorice that’s true licorice, is black licorice. (Red licorice doesn’t have licorice extract in it.)
- The Baby Ruth and Butterfinger were invented by Otto Schnering.
- Otto Schnering first found chocolate fame when he had success with Baby Ruth before also creating Butterfinger.
- The candy bar Butterfinger got its name from a pubic contest before becoming another smash hit!
- Salt water taffy isn’t usually made from saltwater, salty or watery and got its name from a story about a flood in a candy store, when a little girl came in for a treat and the owner said that nothing was left except “saltwater taffy.” The name stuck and it’s still called that to this day.
- Mike and Ike came out in 1940.
- There are almost 40 different flavors of Mike and Ike that have been made to this day. That’s a lot of flavors for these candy fun facts!
- There are Mike and Ike’s like the original orange, cherry, lemon, and lime and even flavors like cotton candy and root beer float.
- “Gimme a break / Gimme a break / Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar” is one of the most famous earworms (something that gets stuck in your head) according to researchers.
- 2 billion M&M’s are produced every eight hours at the Mars New Jersey factory.
- There are 4 million M&M’s made every minute.
- You’d need 2.4 billion M&M’s to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
- Candy corn can last for three to six months after being opened.
- There is a Twix Spread available to buy if you live in the United Kingdom that has chocolate, caramel, and crunchy pieces of biscuit in it. Did you know about this spread as some of the candy fun facts?
- Pez has had some strange flavors in the past including cola, pineapple and even chlorophyll but flavors vary by region. For example, peach Pez aren’t available in the United States.
- Candy cigarettes weren’t available in South Dakota between 1953 and 1967. The state thought if they banned the candy it would help discourage kids from the idea of smoking.
- Back at the beginning, it would take 27 hours to make one Peep.
- With automation, it takes only 6 minutes to make one Peep and the Pennsylvania factory makes over 5.5 million of them a day!
- The Just Born Candy Company was created in 1923 by Sam Born.
- The Born Sucker Machine was a machine made that would insert sticks into the lollipops. Sam Born also made Mike and Ike’s and Hot Tamales.
- The 3 Musketeers Bar was named that because it started out having chocolate. Strawberry and Vanilla pieces of candy in it.
- Because of scarcity during WWII, vanilla and strawberry were left behind and chocolate was used going forward.
These candy fun facts take the cake! What do you think of these fun facts, let me know in the comments!