A Halloween mystery solved!

[Guest guest]

7. Where does candy corn come from?

Like Christmas and the candy cane and Easter with its marshmallow

Peeps, Halloween, too, has a signature sweet: the mysterious candy corn.

Like some annual plague, the small cone-shaped candies infect our

stores and molars each year before vanishing as quickly as they came.

Comedian Black has a theory about candy corn: " All the candy corn

that was ever made was made in 1914.

They never had to make it again. We never eat enough of it. We only eat

two or three or four pieces apiece. So, literally, after Halloween the

candy corn companies send out their minions. And they go from garbage

can to garbage can and collect the corn and throw it back in the bags.

And it appears next year. "

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/10/23/mf.halloween.faq

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