The famous candy is said to have been invented in the United States by George Renninger in the 1880s and it was originally made by hand.
Nowadays, it’s mass produced by Jelly Belly® using a recipe unchanged since about 1900. Candy corn is made from bottom to top. The yellow bit is the top and the white is the bottom.
But remember, I believe they stopped production sometime after the end of World War I and just continued to recycle the remaining uneaten supply.
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