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An early 1900s Christmas card image of candy canes. A common story of the origin of candy canes says that in 1670, in Cologne, Germany, the choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral, wishing to remedy the noise caused by children in his church during the Living Crèche tradition of Christmas Eve, asked a local candy maker for some "sugar sticks" for them.
The Big Rock Candy Mountains. " The Big Rock Candy Mountains ", first recorded and copyrighted by Harry McClintock in 1928, [3] is a country folk song about a hobo 's idea of paradise, a modern version of the medieval concept of Cockaigne. It is a place where "hens lay soft-boiled eggs " and there are " cigarette trees".
Manticore. Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020), known professionally as Little Richard, was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter. He was an influential figure in popular music and culture for seven decades. Described as the " Architect of Rock and Roll ", Richard's most celebrated work dates from the mid-1950s, when ...
Tootsie Pop. A Tootsie Pop[1] (known as Tutsi Chupa Pop in Latin America [2]) is a hard candy lollipop filled with a chocolate -flavored chewy Tootsie Roll candy. They were invented in 1931 by an employee of The Sweets Company of America. Tootsie Rolls had themselves been invented in 1896 by Leo Hirschfield. [3]
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Rock (often known by its place of origin, for instance Blackpool rock or Brighton rock) is a type of hard stick-shaped boiled sugar confectionery most usually flavoured with peppermint or spearmint. It is commonly sold at tourist (usually seaside) resorts in the United Kingdom (such as Brighton, Southend-on-Sea, Scarborough, Llandudno or ...
Rock candy. Rock candy or sugar candy, [1] also called rock sugar, or crystal sugar, is a type of confection composed of relatively large sugar crystals. In some parts of the world, local variations are called Misri, nabat[2] or navat. [3][4] This candy is formed by allowing a supersaturated solution of sugar and water to crystallize onto a ...
Oxalis versicolor. L. Oxalis versicolor or candy cane sorrel is a species of flowering plant in the family Oxalidaceae found in South Africa. [1] A bulbous perennial, it grows to 8–15 cm (3.1–5.9 in) forming a mound of fresh green leaves, each leaf composed of three elongated leaflets. In late summer and autumn, narrow white tubular buds ...