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Whoever concoted this vile "treat", needs a small whipping,,will rot the teeth right out of a child's mouth. Yesterday I saw a mother giving her one-year old baby a candy cane to keep him quiet on the bus. Yikes! "Inventor" was probably a dentist who needed more work.
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I have heard two stories. One that is a sheperds crook. The other (and my favorite) that it is actually a J that stands for Jesus. The red is for the blood he shed for us and the white for the purity of his soul. Not sure why the mint flavoring-if that is supposed to stand for anything. Maybe that he refreshes you.:)
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The candy cane was originally a straight, hard, and all-white candy stick. The cane shape is traditionally credited to a choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral in Germany, who, legend has it, in 1670 bent straight sugar sticks into canes to represent a shepherd's staff, and gave them to children at church services. Whether the choirmaster had the "Good Shepherd" in mind is unknown. Another theory is, as people decorated their Yule trees with food, the bent candy cane was invented as a functional solution. Peppermint candy with red stripes first appeared in the mid-19th century in the Swedish town of Gränna , and striped candy canes in the early 20th century.
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"House" came up with the idea while weaning off his Vicadin. Only kidding. Here is actually how they came to be. Around the seventeenth century, European-Christians began to adopt the use of Christmas trees as part of their Christmas celebrations. They made special decorations for their trees from foods like cookies and sugar-stick candy. The first historical reference to the familiar cane shape goes back to 1670, when the choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany, bent the sugar-sticks into canes to represent a shepherd's staff. The all-white candy canes were given out to children during the long-winded nativity services. http://inventors.about.com/od/foodrelatedinventions/a/candy_canes.htm
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I heard it was shaped the way it is to stand for J for Jesus and also turned around to look like a shepards staff. The white is for purity and the red for the blood of Jesus. This is why we have them at Christmas, Jesus's Birthday! That is how I heard it.
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