Keep them Sweet with Promotional Candy Canes

National Candy Cane Day is observed across the United States each year on December 26.

The first recorded candy cane comes from 1837 Massachusetts. They started as pain white, straight sugar sticks flavoured simply as "sugar" and a few years later the red and green stripes were added as well as the peppermint flavor. Their first connection to Christmas comes from 1874. The story says that German a choirmaster was worried about the children sitting quietly all through the long Christmas nativity service. So he gave them something to eat to keep them quiet! As he wanted to remind them of Christmas, he made them into a 'J' shape like a shepherds crook, to remind them of the shepherds that visited the baby Jesus at the first Christmas. Sometimes other Christian meanings are giving to the parts of the canes.

The 'J' can also mean Jesus. The white of the cane can represent the purity of Jesus Christ and the red stripes are for the blood he shed when he died on the cross. The peppermint flavor can represent the hyssop plant that was used for purifying in the Bible. However, all of these meanings were added to Candy Canes after they had become popular.

Did you know...

• The average candy can is 5 inches tall.
• While most candy canes are not sugar or calorie-free, they do not have any fat or cholesterol.
• Striped red and white candy canes were first introduced in 1900.
• The first machine to make candy canes was invented in 1921 by Brasher O. Westerfield. Until then, they were made by hand.
• Traditionally the flavor for candy canes is peppermint, but there are a variety of flavors.
• Alain Roby, Geneva pastry chef, holds the Guinness World Record for the longest candy cane, measuring 51 feet long.

To celebrate National Candy Cane Day, we take a closer look at some of our candy cane promotional products!

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