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sugar dressed up as joy, plotting against your dentist since forever.
means A sweet confection made primarily from sugar or syrup, often flavored and shaped into bite-sized treats.
from From the Arabic 'qandi,' meaning 'made of sugar,' which traces back to 'qand,' a word for crystallized cane sugar — itself likely borrowed from a Sanskrit root 'khanda' meaning 'piece' or 'fragment.' The word traveled west through Persian and Arabic traders, into French as 'sucre candi' (candied sugar), and arrived in English as 'sugar candy' before the sugar got dropped and 'candy' stood on its own — sweetness shortened to a single word.
- ancient sweets
- Egyptians candied fruit with honey 4,000 years ago
- color trick
- Red 40 dye comes from petroleum, not berries
- bug source
- Shiny candy shells often use crushed beetle secretions
- halloween haul
- Americans buy 600 million pounds yearly
- shelf life
- Hard candy can outlast you by decades
halloween candy consumption — americans spend $2.6 billion on halloween candy annually, making it the second-largest commercial holiday after christmas
halloween — october 31st tradition where over 600 million pounds of candy are distributed to trick-or-treaters in the us
easter candy sales — easter generates $2.2 billion in us candy sales, second only to halloween for holiday candy spending
halloween candy bowl — 65% of american households hand out candy on halloween night, with an average of 2-3 pieces per child