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  2. Jan 8, 2020 · Stripes. About 50 years later, the first red-and-white-striped candy canes appeared. No one knows who exactly invented the stripes, but based on historical Christmas cards, we know that no striped candy canes appeared prior to the year 1900.

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  3. Dec 26, 2023 · Initially, candy canes were purely white, their sweetness derived from sugar. As their popularity soared, inventive confectioners began adding flavors like peppermint and wintergreen, transforming them into the familiar striped confections we know today.

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  4. Dec 15, 2016 · In 1847, a German-Swedish immigrant named August Imgard of Wooster, Ohio, decorated a small blue spruce with paper ornaments and candy canes. At that time the candy canes were completely white in color. At the end of the 19th century, the red and white stripes and peppermint flavors became the norm.

  5. Dec 22, 2019 · Candy canes were originally solid white, but during the turn of the 20th century stripes started to appear. Prior to the late 19th century, Christmas cards of that period show nothing but...

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Candy_caneCandy cane - Wikipedia

    A striped candy cane being made by hand from a large mass of red and white sugar syrup. As with other forms of stick candy, the earliest canes were manufactured by hand. Chicago confectioners the Bunte Brothers filed one of the earliest patents for candy cane making machines in the early 1920s. [13]

  7. Dec 25, 2011 · Candy canes would not earn their characteristic stripes until around 1900. No one knows who first gave candy canes those well-known, bright-red stripes twisting around the candy stick like the stripes of a barber's pole.

  8. Apr 10, 2022 · From the old Christmas cards, we can see that the red stripe was added in the early 1900s, but no one knows who exactly invented them. It was also the time when candy-makers began adding different flavors, including peppermint and wintergreen, to candy canes.

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