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Morning Start: Candy Corn was originally called Chicken Feed

Your morning start for Friday, Oct. 8, 2021
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Fun fact: Candy Corn was originally called Chicken Feed

Candy Corn, Halloween’s most polarizing treat, was originally called Chicken Feed, according to History.com.

The candy was created in the 1880s by George Renninger, a candymaker at the Wunderle Candy Company in Philadelphia. However, the Goelitz Candy Company — now the Jelly Belly Candy Company — popularized the candy in 1898 when they picked up the recipe and began marketing the treats as a candy called “Chicken Feed.”

“That’s because before World War I, most Americans didn’t really think of corn as people food,” states the article.

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