Surprise, surprise, it’s National Candy Corn Day today. The famous candy is said to have been invented in the United States by George Renninger a candymaker at the Wunderlee Candy Company in Philadelphia, in the 1880s and it was originally made by hand.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. And what ever you do – please don’t remind Lewis Black about this.
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