So because the holidays are coming up, I decided to write about candy canes. I couldn't find a source that wasn't very vague about when candy canes were made except for Wikipedia, so my source today is Wikipedia (sadly).
There is this old tale that there was a choirmaster in Germany, that decided the only way to keep kids quiet in church was to have them eat candy. He made the candy though bent, to represent the shepherds that visited baby Jesus.
In the beginning, candy canes were being made by hand (1870s to early 1920s). The candy cane was being associated to Christmas by then because of stories like the one in the beginning. Then around the early 1920s, a candy cane machine was patented. So now whenever you eat candy canes you can think about all of that amazing history behind what you are eating.
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