Trick or Treating, going from house to house to ask for gifts, seems to have started in England, where peasant children dressed up as prisoners to beg for coins or treats in remembrance of Guy Fawkes, who was drawn and quartered after attempting to blow up British government offices. Halloween did not become an American Hallmark holiday until the 20th century. It evolved from children going next door for a treat, to parents driving around carloads of children looking for choice neighborhoods to load up on loot.
Average sales for Halloween candy in the USA are around 2 Billion dollars per year. One quarter of all the candy sold each year is purchased between September 15 and November 10.
Chocolate Christmas
The most popular candy treats to receive are chocolate candy bars with Snickers being number 1. Snickers was named after the Mars family horse.
Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in the US. They debuted in 1896, introduced by Leo Hirshfield of New York, who named them after his daughter's nickname, "Tootsie."
The average American household spends about each year on Halloween candy.
20 million pounds of candy corn is consumed each year. October 30th is National Candy Corn day. A cup of candy corn has fewer calories than a cup of raisins.
The original Hershey's chocolate bar was introduced in 1900.
In 1920 The Baby Ruth candy bar is first sold, named for President Grover Cleveland's daughter - not the famous baseball player.
Dubble-Bubble was invented in 1928.
The 3 Musketeers bar was introduced in 1932 and each package had three pieces of candy nouget flavored vanilla, strawberry and chocolate.
Tootsie Roll Pops are introduced in 1931 and were widely advertised as the lollipop that offers two candies in one - flavored hard candy on the outside and chewy Tootsie Roll center inside.
The 5th Avenue Bar was created by William H. Luden, the man perhaps best known for his cough drops. It was made from layers of peanut butter crunch coated in milk chocolate.
Hershey's Reese's Pieces bite-size candies are introduced in 1978 and four years later soared in popularity because of the blockbuster movie E.T.
Bobbing for apples may have originated from the harvest festival that honors Pamona, the goddess of fruit trees.
A popular Halloween drink in 18th century Ireland was "lambs-wool," which consisted of roasted, crushed apples mixed into milk.
William W. Kolb invented the red candy apple in 1908. He sold the whole first batch for 5 cents each and later sold thousands yearly. Soon candied apples were being sold along the Jersey Shore, at the circus and in candy shops across the country.
Caramel apples are more popular in much of the United States, with candy apples unknown in some regions.
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