Fall, Halloween, and Candy Corn!

Fall brings brilliantly hued leaves, cooler temperatures, scarecrows, pumpkins, and candy corn!

What would fall be without any of those?  As soon as we see chrysanthemums in the supermarket, we also spot bags filled with the tri-colored, sweet-as-the-dickens candy corn.

Did you know that candy corn has been around for a long, long time?  Yep, since the 1880s when George Renninger of the Wunderle Candy Company in Philadelphia made the first batch.  In those days, everything was done by hand so it must have been a big undertaking to produce tri-colored candies in the shapes of corn kernels.

According to Wikipedia (thanks,Wikipedia for all your help on almost every subject under the sun), the National Confectioners Association estimated a total of 20 million pounds of candy corn are sold annually.

That is more than 9000 tons of the sweet confection!  Whew doggie, that's a lot of sugar folks.

Here's a warning, though. Anyone who has a sweet tooth, watch out. Having candy corn around is like having that brand of potato chips where the advertising campaign says, "Betcha can't eat one." 

Same with candy corn. That's why the candy corn in our house is under a glass cover.  That prevents random eating, just because the candy is there.  Candy corn is just another sweet aspect of autumn.

DO YOU LIKE CANDY CORN?