- Did you know that one very famous candy was once known as "chicken feed, because of the way it looked?
Do you know these fun facts about candy? Halloween is less than a week away now and then come the rest of the holidays, full swing.
- Hershey and Dunkin’ Donuts have teamed up to create candy-flavored coffee with Heath Bar and Almond Joy flavors.
- If you weigh 180 pounds, the American Chemical Society states that eating 262 fun-sized Halloween candy bars could poison you. You’d puke before you died but none of that sounds fun. Did you know this about candy?
- There’s a big debate, so what’s your pick? Red vines or Twizzlers? The debates focus around the best taste, appearance and texture.
- The Herman Goelitz Candy Company is much more well known now, as the
Jelly Belly Candy Company. - Did you think it was chocolate in between the layers of a Kit Kat Bar? Because it’s not. It’s actually reused Kit Kats. During the Kit Kat making process, technicians pull all the imperfect Kit Kats whether for off-center wafers or not enough shine and they’re grinded into a paste to be used for the center of the Kit Kats. Did you know this about candy, how interesting!
- M&M’s are a popular pick for astronauts on space missions. They’re bite-sized and candy coated, so they aren’t a messy candy.
- During the Korean War, the term Tootsie Rolls meant mortar shells for a while. The candy itself was useful to the soldiers too but as chewed-up Tootsie Rolls worked pretty well to patch holes in fuel lines in their vehicles. This is weird about candy, that mortar shells used to be called that and that they were used to help patch fuel lines in the field.
- Do you remember the Butterfinger Buzz? The candy came out as their energy bar, with 80 milligrams of caffeine or about the amount you’d find in a Red Bull. Slow sales eventually became the reason the product was discontinued.
- Herman Goelitz Candy Company’s Candy Corn has been around since 1898.
- Junior Mints were named after a Broadway play, Junior Miss, which ran from 1941 and 1943.
- Pez turned their candy dispensers into toys to appeal to kids. The first of them were shaped like Santa Claus, a robot and a space gun.
- There are 64 million Tootsie Rolls are made every single day. That’s more than 44,440 Tootsie Rolls a minute.
- There’s a line of jelly beans that’re energy beans called Jelly Belly Sport Beans. The ingredients are carbohydrates, electrolytes, B vitamins, and Vitamin C. Did you know this about candy?
- Candy corn isn’t a Halloween only candy. The candy is also made for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Easter.
- Dots candy is gluten-free and vegan, besides being absolutely delicious. More than a billion Dots are sold.
- The first candy came out of ancient Egypt. It was honey-flavored with nuts and fruits. What do you know about candy like this?
- The first candy cane was made late in the 1600s. It first came out as a white stick bit later in the 20th century, it was striped red and white and became popular at Christmas.
- The world’s largest candy bar weighed over 12,000 pounds. It was made in Chicago in 2011 and was 21 feet by 3 feet.
- The most expensive candy in the world is the black Perigold truffles, a chocolate truffle that sells for over $2000.00 a pound. This is insane and shocking about candy and it’s crazy high price tag.
- Candy corn was first called “Chicken Feed,” because of the way it looked.
- The first gummy candy came out in Germany in 1920, it was shaped like a bear and called “Gummibärchen” or little gum bear.
- Japan has a candy you can blow bubbles with called “Puchao.” It’s soft and chewy and as you chew it, it releases gas allowing you to blow bubbles.
- The first candy machine was invented in 1887. It was called the Penny Press and allowed people to buy small amounts of candy for a penny.
There is plenty of candy about to come your way, whether you know about candy or not. Let me know what you think in the comments!