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Fun Facts About Candy Corn

Fun Facts About Candy Corn

October 31, 2017 (December 6, 2022) // Riot Fest

100% True and Fun Facts About Candy Corn

  • According to the National Confectioners Association, more than 35 million pounds or roughly 9 billion kernels of CANDY CORN are sold each year.
  • CANDY CORN is fat free.
  • Each kernel of CANDY CORN has a its own unique shape, much like a snowflake.
  • CANDY CORN is technically neither corn or candy.
  • One kernel of CANDY CORN is about 7 calories
  • Made with gelatin, a protein made from animals, CANDY CORN contains traces of animal hides and bones.
  • Legend has it that CANDY CORN was originally invented by a George Renningerr as a healthy, ready-to-eat anti-masturbatory morning meal.
  • If you plant a kernel of CANDY CORN, it will grow into a giant CANDY CORN stalk that reaches high into the clouds. If you climb all the way to the top, you get diabetes.
  • The Goelitz Candy Company (now the Jelly Belly Candy Company), has been producing CANDY CORN since 1898.
  • Though millions of pounds of CANDY CORN are made each year, but no one has ever actually been seen eating CANDY CORN.
  • CANDY CORN is a combination of 50% corn and 50% candy.
  • CANDY CORN was the only form of vegetable that GG Allin willingly ate and attendees of his shows can attest this historical accuracy.
  • If unopened, packaged CANDY CORN has a shelf life of about nine months.
  • CANDY CORN is garbage.
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