{"id":52867,"date":"2014-10-30T00:09:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T07:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=52867"},"modified":"2014-10-30T00:09:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T07:09:39","slug":"candy-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/52867","title":{"rendered":"Candy Corn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFestively colored and nearly bursting from every grocery-store shelf this time of year, candy corn harkens the arrival of Halloween. But aside from that, what do we really know about this little dentist\u2019s nightmare? I went searching for answers and found out that it\u2019s certainly the candy we love to hate; candy corn has been reported as the <em>least<\/em> favorite candy by consumers. But ironically, 35 million pounds of the confection are made and sold in the U.S. each year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-52868\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/o-JELLYBELLY-570-e1414526437348.jpg\" alt=\"o-JELLYBELLY-570\" width=\"360\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Candy corn has its origins in the Goelitz Confectionery Company, now known as Jelly Belly, who\u2019s been making it longer than any other company. Production began in 1898 in a factory in Ohio, and Goelitz claims candy corn became so popular, the company continued to see profits through both World Wars and the Great Depression! The brilliantly colored trifecta of sugar used to be referred to as \u201cchicken feed\u201d in reference to its corn shape (Americans weren&#8217;t too keen on eating corn back in the early 1900s because of its lack of sweetness and its tough texture, preferring instead to feed it to the livestock), and the packaging revealed a handsome rooster with the slogan \u201csomething to crow about\u201d printed below him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-52869\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/o-CHICKENFEED-570-e1414526477988.jpg\" alt=\"o-CHICKENFEED-570\" width=\"360\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until the 1950s that Halloween became more centered around candy and advertisers rushed to bill candy corn as \u201cthe traditional Halloween candy.\u201d I admit, I buy a bag each year for the d\u00e9cor component. Halloween does call for a cute candy jar full of candy corn. And <em>someone<\/em> always seems to eat a few pieces.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-52890\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Photo-Oct-29-10-28-15-AM-e1414604087628.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Oct 29, 10 28 15 AM\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Festively colored and nearly bursting from every grocery-store shelf this time of year, candy corn harkens the arrival of Halloween. But aside from that, what do we really know about this little dentist\u2019s nightmare? I went searching for answers and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/52867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/52867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}