Candy canes are one of the things you have On you're “what to buy so kids could stop bugging me list” besides more candy and toys.but candy canes have been a tradition since the 70th century (that's a long time) but were originated in germany 350 years ago. but what you might have not known about them is that they never had stripes until 50 years after candy canes were made. The inventor of candy canes was named bob mccormick.you also might think that the white symbol means purity of jesus and the red stripes meant the blood that jesus shed when he died on the cross.although tha might be right Candy canes are not religious . they used to be just white sugar sticks, until he wanted to make more
