Sometime in 1916, the candy people looked at their empty fall calendars and decided what America needed was a new candy holiday, a day to celebrate all things candy, to eat candy with extra enthusiasm, and not coincidentally, to give candy sales a boost in advance of the Christmas holiday season. But the holiday wasn’t Halloween. The word went forth from the National Confectioners Association: The second Saturday of October would henceforth be known as “Candy Day.
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I was talking to Amber a while back ago about how I miss our Candy/ice cream days!!
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This successfully made me miss LJ101A. Candy Day memorieeees!!!
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Sometime in 1916, the candy people looked at their empty fall calendars and decided what America needed was a new candy...
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What the hell was I doing on 9 October that was more important than observing CANDY DAY?!
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