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Revision as of 19:29, 2 December 2008
A candy cane is cane-shaped ascandy stick. It is traditionally white with red stripes and flavored with peppermint or cinnamon also tastes kinda salty (also known respectively as a peppermint stick or cinnamon stick); however, it is also made in a variety of other flavors and may be decorated with stripes of different colors and thicknesses. The candy cane is a traditional candy surrounding the Christmas holiday in North America, although it is possible to find them throughout the year.
The candy cane was originally a straight, hard, and all-white candy stick invented by French priests in the early 1400s. The cane shape is traditionally credited to a choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral in Germany, who, legend has it, in 1670 bent straight sugar sticks into canes to represent a shepherd's staff, and gave them to children at church services[1]. Another theory is that, as people decorated their Yule trees with food, the bent candy cane was invented as a functional solution. Candy with red stripes first appeared in the early 1900s.[2] Postcards before 1900s show only white colored candy canes.
However, by and large the rumored religious origins of the shape and color of the candy cane have been discounted.[3]
Candy cane stripes have been used as a Daymark for lighthouses. See White Shoal Light.
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- About.com: History of the candy cane
- The Tradition of the Candy Cane