A candy cane is a hard cane-shaped candy stick. It is usually white with red stripes and flavored with peppermint; however, it is also made in a variety of other flavors and colored stripes. The candy cane is a traditional candy surrounding the Christmas holiday, although it is possible to find them at any time during the year.
The candy cane was originally a straight, hard, and all-white candy stick. The cane shape is traditionally credited to a choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral in Germany, who, legend has it, in 1670 bent straight sugar sticks into canes to represent a shepherd's staff, and gave them to children at church services. Whether the choirmaster had the "Good Shepherd" in mind is unknown. Candy canes with red stripes first appeared around the turn of the 20th century.
Urban legends about the origin of candy canes
Apocryphal tales suggesting the candy cane was created wholecloth (usually by an AmericanProtestant, usually described as being an unnamed candy maker in 1870sIndiana) to represent Jesus have become popular in recent years. These are recently created stories with no factual basis.
Other uses
Candy canes are sometimes ground up and use as a topping for foods such as ice cream or as an additive to drinks such as hot chocolate. They are also used to decorate Christmas trees.
Candycanes are sometimes ground up and used as a topping for foods such as ice cream, fudge, or cookies, or as an additive to drinks such as hot chocolate or coffee.
The candycane denotes the symbol of the shepherd's crook, anciently used by the humble shepherds who first arrived to worship the newborn Christ child.
Candies represented the Light of the World; the star recalled that first Christmas night; and the shepherd’s crook symbolized the humble shepherds in their fields near Bethlehem, who were the first to receive the news, “Unto you a Savior is born.”
Candycanes on the Christmas tree symbolize the shepherds in the fields on that first Christmas night – shepherds who heard the angel chorus and came to worship at the crib of the newborn King.
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