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By 1898, Goeltiz (known today as Jelly Belly) was replicating Renninger’s recipe and producing candy corn on a larger scale. Back then, it was sometimes also known as chicken feed.
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Candy corn developed into a fall and Halloween staple around the 1950s when people began to hand out individually wrapped candy to trick-or-treaters. The harvest-themed colors and increased advertising in October also helped candy corn become a fall staple. [5]
According to some accounts, candy corn was invented in the late 1800s by George Renninger, a candy maker at the Wunderlee Candy Company in Philadelphia. Renninger was inspired by the shape and colors of corn kernels, and he created a candy that resembled them.
Sep 14, 2022 · Candy corn was a big deal, but not because it was something completely new. Not entirely. During the late 19th century, there were a ton of confectioners making that kind of candy. They were called butter creams, and The Atlantic says they were a pretty standard option when it came to candy.
Oct 30, 2013 · The trade association claims candy corn was invented in the 1880s by a Wunderlee Candy Company employee named George Renninger. Wunderlee was reportedly the first to produce the candy,...
Oct 8, 2020 · The kernels were invented in the 1880s by George Renninger, an employee of the Wunderlee Candy Company in Pennsylvania, according to the National Confectioners Association. The candy is said to have been inspired by chicken feed, and was even called that for a time.
Oct 30, 2015 · Halloween's iconic candy corn first appeared in stores in the 1920s. The decade saw a boom in the retail candy business — and in advertising and production divided along racial lines.
