Everything about Candy Canes totally explained
A
candy cane is a hard
cane-shaped
candy stick. It is traditionally
white with
red stripes and flavored with
peppermint (also known as a
peppermint stick); however, it's 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's 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. 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. Postcards before 1900s show only white colored candy canes.
Urban legends
In recent years,
apocryphal origin stories for the candy cane have become popular. Usually they suggest the candy cane was invented by an
American Protestant, usually described as being an unnamed candy maker in
1870s Indiana, to represent Jesus. These stories typically suggest that the white of the candy cane represents Jesus's purity, the bold red stripes represents
crucifixion, and the three thin red stripes stand for the
Holy Trinity. This legend further posits that the general shape is for the "J" in Jesus, as well as perhaps to resemble a shepherd's cane.
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