Production and marketing Stick candy can be bent when hardening, making candy canes Stick candy is also mentioned in a 1909 poem, "The Land of Candy", by Madison Julius Cawein: Of the sassafras, horehound and white peppermint! I see through the glamor of childhood the glint I know the green street where the little shop stood,Īnd, oh, the stick-candy that tasted so good!Įach in its round little, fat little jar.
Like lightning because they were two for a cent! Where the little old lady sold ginger-beer pop,Īnd made little cookies with raisins, that went I want to go back to the dear little shop I want to go back to the stick-candy days,īefore they made bonbons of choc'late and glaze Stick candy was the subject of a poem, "Stick-Candy Days", from the 1907 collection A Rose of the Old Regime: And other Poems of Home-Love and Childhood by the Bentztown Bard (Folger McKinsey).
Till away to the store on the corner I stole,įor the candy stick striped like a gay barber’s pole. Was a luscious delight of my infantile soul,Įv’ry penny I earn’d in my little palm burn’d, Oh the candy stick striped like a gay barber’s pole, Ĭandy sticks were the subject of an 1885 song called "The Candy Stick": One contemporary account describes broken pieces of stick candy being sold in paper containers, being presented by candy sellers to rural people as something special, and commanding a high price. as early as the 1860s, and the selling of this type of candy (particularly during the carnival season in the warmer months) was described as being lucrative. Stick candy was popular with both children and adults in the U.S. Stick candy has been around since at least the fall of year 1837 when it was shown at the Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association alongside "lobster candy".
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The Cracker Barrel chain estimates that its stores sell a total length of 940 miles (1,510 km) of stick candy each year. It is often sold in general stores and similar shops specializing in nostalgia items. The candy has a long history in the United States, where it is believed to have been developed, and is often marketed as an "old fashioned" candy. Like candy canes, they usually have at least two different colors (either opaque or translucent) swirled together in a spiral pattern, resembling a barber's pole. Stick candy (also called candy stick, barber pole candy, circus stick, or barber pole) is a long, cylindrical variety of hard candy, usually four to seven inches in length and 1/4 to 1/2 inch in diameter, but in some extraordinary cases up to 14 inches in length and two inches in diameter.
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