Daily Curiosities: Candy Corn was Invented in the 1880′s
POSTED by: on 10/27/2009
Every year Americans eat so much candy corn that if the pieces were laid end to end, they would circle the earth more than 4 times.
Candy corn is made much the same way it was when it was invented, though machines have taken over much of the process. Candy corn is a mixture of corn syrup, sugar, marshmallow, and a few other ingredients. It is moded in a process called corn starch molding. The manufacturers first sift corn starch into trays and use plaster casts of candy corns to make impressions in it. Then the molten candy is poured in. When it’s cool, the trays are dumped and the candy is sifted out of the corn starch. Viola, Candy Corn.
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