10 Amazing facts you never knew about National Candy Day

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The first candies can be traced back to 2000 B.C. in Ancient Egypt.

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The word “Candy” has been used in the English language since the mid to late 14th century, but it was not its own word until the 17th century.

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The oldest candy bar is Fry’s Chocolate Cream, produced in England in 1866 and still sold today.

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The Namesake of Fry’s, Joseph Fry made the first “modern” candy bar 19 years earlier in 1847 by mixing Cacao Butter, Cocoa, and Sugar into a paste and placing it in a mold

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In 1908, George Smith of the Bradley Smith Company in New Haven, Conn. named his hard candy on a stick “lollipops” after a racehorse he had seen at a local fair.

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The world has produced more sugar than can be sold since 1979, which is the reason sugar is so cheap.

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 In 1847, Boston inventor Oliver R. Chase created and patented the first candy press in America: a lozenge cutter. Lovers of Necco Wafers are familiar with this candy.

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The initials in the candy-coated chocolate stand for Mars and Murrie – Forrest Mars Sr. with the Mars candy company and William Murrie, president of the Hershey company.

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The government rationed many items required for use by the military including meat, leather, rubber, gasoline and chocolate. Chocolate served as an emergency food source in the troops’ rations

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Four days after Halloween, you should be able to celebrate this day. Either you have leftover candy or can sneak some of your kid’s stash to celebrate