Results: Classic Halloween treats

From Always a Treat.com: October 30th is Candy Corn day! Candy corn has existed for more than 100 years. According to legend, a Wunderlee Candy Company employee named George Renninger invented the confection in the 1880s. The Goelitz Candy Company (now Jelly Belly Candy Company) started producing candy corn around the turn of the century and continues the tradition today. A recent survey of Americans shows that while 52 percent of people believe you should eat the whole piece of candy corn at once, 31 percent believe in starting with the narrow, white end. Just 17 percent of respondents start with the wider, yellow end when enjoying a piece of candy corn. How do you eat candy corn?

The very first candied apples were created in 1908 in Newark, New Jersey by a candy maker who never intended them to be eaten. It was the Christmas season when candy maker William Kolb came up with an idea to add some festive color to his window display of chocolates. While experimenting with a red cinnamon candy he planned to sell for the holidays, he dipped an apple into the sweet tangy mixture, let it harden, and then placed the shiny dipped apples in his storefront window intending them to look like ornaments. Do you associate candy apples more with Halloween or more with Christmas?

Popcorn balls (popped kernels stuck together with a sugary "glue") were hugely popular around the turn of the 20th century, but their popularity has since waned. Popcorn balls are still served in some places as a traditional Halloween treat. Popcorn balls were a fixture at many Halloween parties during the 1950s, a time when Treat or Treaters regularly enjoyed homemade treats rather than packaged store-bought candies.Popcorn balls dated back to the mid-19th century. New York cookbook author E.F. Haskell included the recipe in her Housekeeper's Encyclopedia first published in 1861. Have you ever made popcorn balls?

Of all the candy that people say they dislike the most candy vitriol is reserved for the molasses kiss. A National Post reporter, Tristan Hopper, has called the molasses morsel, "the worst Halloween candy ever devised by human hands." The molasses kiss has been selling for 75 years, and even the manufacturer recognizes that candy emotions run high; they are well aware of the range of emotions the candy provokes. "The molasses kiss has a rich, spicy, earthy flavour which is very specific. It's one of those things that defines Halloween for adults," says Ryan Martic, President of Kerr's. "It's definitely love or hate when it comes to molasses and each side is very vocal with their view. The reality is the majority of molasses kisses that are sold this time of the year are for personal consumption as much as giving out." (CTV News). Do you like these molasses kisses?