Candy cane is one of the most popular chocolate-free festive sweets. Its history goes back to 1670. The choirmaster of Cologne Cathedral bent sugar sticks into the shape of canes to represent a shepherd’s staff. These were given out to children during the nativity scene. The cane was then all-white.
Handing out candy canes during Christmas soon spread throughout Europe. It reached America in 1847, when a German immigrant decorated his Christmas tree with candy canes. Striped candy cane appeared only at the turn of the century with red-white stripes. Around that time, it was flavored by peppermint, which finally became the traditional flavoring.
Candy canes were made by hand, a machine had been developed only in 1950 which could bend the sticks, with this providing the mass production and selling them worldwide.
Nowadays candy canes are produced in almost every color. However, the red-white version is still the most popular during Christmas preparations. Green-white and red-green-white stripes are also available.
This traditional striping is applied by the producers on many other Christmas products and decorations, since there is a high demand because of its popularity. Only some examples to mention: Christmas tree ornament in various shapes, wrapping papers, sweets with different shapes, lighting decorations. The candy cane is also used as Christmas tree ornament and decoration element instead of eating it.
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