Posts Tagged ‘candy’
History of Easter Candy
Reading Time: 7 minutesHistory of Easter Candy Easter is the second-largest “candy holiday” of the year, after Halloween in the US. Trick-or-treating can turn a grown adult into a porch-based sugar distributor for tiny extortionists in costume. This ranking may be because Halloween retailing starts in July, aggressively elbowing the Fourth of July store displays. Easter has waited politely…
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Reading Time: 5 minutesHISTORY OF HALLOWEEN Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) is the evening of October 31. In its strictly religious aspect, this occasion is known as the vigil of Hallowmas or All Saints’ Day, November 1, observed by the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. In the fourth decade of the 8th century, Pope Gregory III moved this holiday…
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