Whats Christmas without Candy Canes?
With the holiday season quickly approaching we start to see candy canes popping up in store windows, on people’s clothing, and even on wrapping paper. But how exactly did the tradition of the candy cane get started? The old urban legend says a candy maker in Indiana wanted to symbolize the birth of Christ with the use of a piece of candy, so he took a hard candy stick which was pure white then shaped it into a letter “J” for Jesus and added some red stripes to represent God’s love and the trinity. This legend has been disputed, unfortunately; although one could believe what one wants regarding the Christmas delicacy. The actual history of the candy cane goes more like this. At Cologne Cathedral back in 1670, the choirmaster was nervous that the children who were attending the pageant of living nativities would become a little too antsy and disruptive, so he gave them a white candy stick bent into the shape of a shepherd’s crook. This kept the little tikes appeased and became a traditio
