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.
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.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 29.7 ms ] thread"...declaration of a Candy Day throughout the United States by candy manufacturers on October 8, 1922."
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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.
(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.