What other holiday allows going door to door begging for treats and bragging about all the Halloween candies and treats?
Halloween candy facts
- Halloween nets the most significant candy sales of the year, with more than 2 billion per year spent on Halloween candy.
- Among the favorites in Halloween candy are miniature chocolate bars, Halloween candy corn, and other ghoulish candy treats such as chocolate eyeballs and wax lips.
- According to the National Confectioner’s Association, over 20 million pounds of candy corn are made yearly, not only for Halloween! Candy corn is also manufactured for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, and Fall (Indian corn).
Other than the fun and sweet treats associated with Halloween, what else does Halloween bring to mind?
When “history of Halloween” is typed into an Internet search box, facts and traditions associated with this spooky holiday can be found. Most people don’t realize that the history of Halloween can be traced back over 2000 years with traditions that evolved from the Celts, the Romans, Christianity, and Paganism. For example, the first jack-o-lanterns were carved out of turnips, not pumpkins! Jack-o-lanterns were thought to ward off evil spirits that wandered the night on Halloween.
Costumes were worn for this reason – to scare the spirits into leaving you alone.
Fond Memories of Halloween
- Waiting till sunset to trick-or-treat, then racing home afterward to dump the trick-or-treat bags and plastic jack-o-lanterns to separate the chocolate candy from the other, less desirable, Halloween candy.
- It was bobbing for apples, “fishing” for prizes in the fishing booth, and enjoying a favorite Halloween candy recipe – the red candy-coated Halloween candy apples – at the Halloween Carnival.
- Browsing the Halloween aisle to see the variety of unique Halloween candy bags created for the season and oohing and aahing at the wide variety of Halloween candy made especially for this time of year.