How Candy Corn Became a Halloween Staple
Whether you view a piece of candy corn as a nostalgic treat or a cloying nugget of disappointment, you can’t deny its place in the Halloween season. Here's how it got there.
Whether you view a piece of candy corn as a nostalgic treat or a cloying nugget of disappointment, you can’t deny its place in the Halloween season. Here's how it got there.
If you've ever wondered what an old bandage tastes like, try some BeanBoozled jelly beans from Jelly Belly.
A viral TikTok recently suggested that you can load your PEZ without unwrapping it. But does it actually work?
Pop Rocks—General Foods' famously carbonated candy—flew off shelves in the 1970s, but rumors of exploding children brought the food fad to an untimely end.
This candy-shooting gun from 1965 has to be one of the more questionable dispensers PEZ has ever produced.
When movie theaters are open for business, snacks make up nearly half of their profits. But when movie houses first cropped up, managers banned food outright.
Ahead of Easter on April 4, 2021, see which holiday-specific treats and candies your home state is searching for.
This Cadbury Creme Egg beer from Goose Island Brewery would make the perfect addition to any grownup's Easter basket.
Food has been used as an artistic medium since ancient times, but its sweetest period may have been the Renaissance, when sugar sculptures graced the tables of Europe’s most elite—but at what price?
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It’s mostly a battle between conversation hearts and chocolate boxes, with cinnamon bears watching from the sidelines.
If you've ever eaten a chocolate bar, you've probably eaten a Kit Kat. The four-fingered bar is one of the world's most popular treats and in 2014 was named the "most influential" candy bar of all time by TIME Magazine.
Make your own gummy bears, worms, or fish with this machine. Experiment with flavors, textures, and even protein powders to create your own gummy candy.
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In 1976, red M&Ms were pulled from shelves. In 1987, they staged a comeback thanks to an enterprising college student.
Every year, families in Saratoga Springs, New York, celebrate Christmas by smashing a peppermint pig candy with a hammer.
Gingerbread men, candy canes, and other classic Christmas desserts made the cut. Thanks to Utah, so did Jolly Ranchers.
Sugar plums didn't originally contain plums, and their name once doubled as a not-so-sweet euphemism.
Depending on which survey you’re looking at, candy corn is either the best or the worst Halloween candy ever created. Either way, here’s how it came to be.
Helen Pfeil thought some kids were much too old for treats, so she played a nasty trick on them instead.
The practice of trick or treating didn't appear in North America until the 1930s, when kids started emulating front-page criminals and used principles of extortion and racketeering to demand candy—or else.
Target locations around the country will become “Boo Avenues,” a less germy way to celebrate the holiday.
There aren’t any 10-foot strawberries to dip in it, but there is a tasting room at the end of the tour.
The 54-year-old consumed one-and-a-half bags of black licorice a day for weeks before his heart stopped. An ingredient in the treat is to blame.