I've never been a fan of candy canes, though I think they are cool looking and a neat holiday icon. I just don't like peppermint.I-Mockery has an awesome column about the trend of unusual flavors in candy-cane land. Some, such as chocolate-mint, seem like a natural evolution. But others seem like weird candy brands trying to get into a new industry -- they have candy canes now in Starburst strawberry, Jolly Rancher fruit Smoothie flavor, Lifesaver tropical fruits, Sweet Tarts, Spree, and Everlasting Gobstopper.
If you could take those flavors back a couple decades and hand them out at Christmas, people would be freakin'.
Apparently there are candy-cane Pop Rocks now, too. Wild.
Snopes.com debunks the urban legend (one I'd never heard of) that candy canes were created to symbolize Jesus, shaped like a J and with white symbolizing His purity, red His blood.
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I'd steer clear of those Pop Rocks. They taste exactly like the old school scratch-and-sniff candy cane stickers.
It's quite bizarre.
Of course, if you always wanted to eat a scratch-and-sniff sticker, have at it.
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