{"id":1343,"date":"2009-10-30T13:14:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T20:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eataspen.com\/blog\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2009-10-30T13:14:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T20:14:06","slug":"candy-candy-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/candy-candy-candy\/","title":{"rendered":"Candy, Candy, Candy…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Candy Candy Candy!!! \u00a0Halloween was one of my favorite time of year because of all the candy! \u00a0Here are some cool stats that I pulled from “Fast Company”<\/a> I was surprised to learn that there were so many M&M colors and that Candy Corn has its own day! Who knew! ?<\/p>\n

After trick or treating with \u00a0my sister we’d sit in the living room floor and spill all our candy onto the floor from our pumpkin buckets. We spread out our candy so we could see all the different types and then the trading began! \u00a0I’ll trade you a butterfingers for a Snickers!! \u00a0What is your favorite Halloween candy?<\/p>\n

The U.S. candy manufacturing industry<\/strong> includes about 1,600 companies<\/strong>, but just 2<\/strong>(the Hersheys Co. and Mars Snackfoods U.S.) make 15 of the top-20 selling chocolate candy bars.<\/p>\n

Only 26%<\/strong> of homes gives out full-sized <\/strong>candy bars. Fun-sized <\/strong>Snickers bars are the most popular Halloween candy.<\/p>\n

Treat:<\/strong> Austin, Charlotte, and San Antonio lead U.S. Halloween spending on candy and decorations, with $53<\/strong> per household.<\/p>\n

Trick:<\/strong> Cincinnati spends the least, $35<\/strong>. 93% of kids go trick-or-treating.<\/p>\n

There are 22 <\/strong>M&M colors.<\/p>\n

Mar’s M&Ms<\/strong> are the most popular chocolate<\/strong> candies in the United States, with annual sales of almost $425 million. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Halloween is responsible for three-fourths<\/strong> of candy corn’s annual sales.<\/p>\n

October 30th is national Candy Corn Day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Nearly 9 billion pieces<\/strong> of candy corn are produced annually.<\/p>\n

Prohibition<\/strong> was a sweet age of revenge: Baby Ruths<\/strong>, Oh Henry!, Charleston Chew<\/strong>, Mounds, Milky Way<\/strong>, Reese’s peanut butter cups, Bit-O-Honey<\/strong>, Mr Goodbar, Milk Duds<\/strong>, Butterfinger, and Snickers<\/strong> all debuted between 1920<\/strong> and 1930<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

America will spend $9 billion<\/strong> on Halloween. The average person will spend $20.39<\/strong> of that on candy.<\/p>\n

Every day<\/strong>, Tootsie Roll Industries produces 16 million Tootsie Pops<\/strong>. According to Purdue University study, it takes an average of 252 licks<\/strong> to get to the center.<\/p>\n

And now you know ; )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Candy Candy Candy!!! Halloween was one of my favorite time of year because of all the candy! Here are some cool stats that I pulled from “Fast Company” I was surprised to learn that there were so many M&M colors and that Candy Corn has its own day! Who knew! ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[283,295,447],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-misc","tag-halloween","tag-holidays","tag-random-food-facts","author-dmwkes","food","misc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t