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What is the truth behind candy candes?
http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/candycane.asp Candy canes were most assuredly not created by "a candymaker in Indiana" who "stained them with red stripes to show the stripes of the scourging Jesus received." Candy canes were around long before there was an Indiana, and they initially bore neither red coloration nor striping — the red stripes were a feature that did not appear until a few hundred years later, at the beginning of the 20th century: About 1847, August Imgard of Ohio managed to decorate his Christmas tree with candy canes to entertain his nephews and nieces. Many who saw his canes went home to boil sugar and experiment with canes of their own. It took nearly another half century before someone added stripes to the canes . . . Christmas cards produced before 1900 show plain white canes, while striped ones appear on many cards printed early in the 20th century. "J" for Jesus is a nice story, but the truth is always best.
I thought it was a monk invented them to keep the choirboys quiet during mass... So where did candy canes come from? Tradition holds that in about 1670, the choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral was frustrated by fidgety kids at the living Nativity. He had some white, sugar-candy sticks made to keep the youngsters quiet. The sticks were curved like shepherds' staffs in honor of the shepherds at the stable (score one for the apologists). The idea caught on, and candy sticks became common at living Nativities all over Europe.
Christmas Tree Decoration – Candy Cane
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The Very Best of Spinners $6.25 No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: SPINNERSTitle: VERY BEST OF SPINNERSStreet Release Date: 04/20/1993… |
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