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What you might not know about 'Candy Corn'

 BuzzFeed has compiled this list of six facts that might cause you to join "Team Candy Corn". Here they are:

It has a corn shape because “nature-inspired” candy was all the rage in the 1880s. Candy chestnuts, candy pumpkins, candy turnips, and candy clover leaves were also popular at the time. 

At one time, it was called Chicken Feed. The inventor of candy corn pandered to the farmers of America with both its shape and by originally naming it chicken feed.

Candy corn was more popular than regular corn when it was first invented. Before wartime shortages popularized the use of corn products during WWI, traditional corn was coarse and flavorless. 

Originally, the candy was made by hand. According to Atlas Obscura, laborers would take 45-pound buckets of the hot liquid candy and pour it into long rows of trays of kernel forms, making three passes, one for each color of the corn.

 The recipe is basically the same as it was in the 1880s. The recipe is, and always has been, a mix of sugar, fondant, corn syrup, vanilla, and marshmallow creme, variously colored yellow, orange, and white, and poured into kernel-shaped molds.

It's still, statistically, pretty popular. A 2013 National Confectioner's Association survey found that candy corn was the second-most popular Halloween candy in the United States, second only to chocolate.


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