Re:How Candy and Halloween Became Best Friends
by xsive on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @02:31AM
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To sum up a needlessly long piece: manufactured candy became an institution in the 1970s amid fears of homemade sweets being unsafe.
In Romania we have a night for carolers in early December. It's a similar idea to trick-or-trearing on Halloween. I'm not sure what it's like now, but nuts, fruit and coins were still common when I was growing up there in the late 80s.
Re:How Candy and Halloween Became Best Friends
by MrFlibble on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @10:51AM
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Did the candy companies secretly own stock in the poison, razor blade & stick-pin companies? That could actually be a fun parallel universe conspiracy theory story for the Onion.
In Romania we have a night for carolers in early December. It's a similar idea to trick-or-trearing on Halloween. I'm not sure what it's like now, but nuts, fruit and coins were still common when I was growing up there in the late 80s.
"...declaration of a Candy Day throughout the United States by candy manufacturers on October 8, 1922."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentines_Day#Japan
(Which is about what it aimed to accomplish.)
It seemed to me that it answered the question "When?" and completely sidestepped "How?", in any real terms.