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<div>The '''candy cane''' is a hard sweet confection, flavored with peppermint. It is popular in the United States during the [[Christmas]] season.<br />
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Though the candy cane has been appropriated by secular culture, its origin is full of religious symbolism. <br />
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*The candy cane's shape represents a shepherd's staff (referring to the shepherds of the [[Gospel of Luke]]). Alternately, it may resemble the staff of Bishop [[Nicholas of Myra]], the true origin of the secular [[Santa Claus]] legend.<br />
*When turned upside-down, the candy cane forms a "J" for "Jesus".<br />
*The stripes on the candy cane may represent the [[Trinity]], and may also represent Jesus' bleeding wounds, on a background which is white (symbolizing purity).<br />
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==The Truth==<br />
A candy cane is a hard cane-shaped candy stick. It is traditionally white with red stripes and flavored with peppermint (also known as a peppermint stick); however, it is also made in a variety of other flavors and may be decorated with stripes of different colors and thicknesses. The candy cane is a traditional candy surrounding the Christmas holiday in North America, although it is possible to find them throughout the year.<br />
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The candy cane was originally a straight, hard, and all-white candy stick invented by French priests in the early 1400s. The cane shape is traditionally credited to a choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral in Germany, who, legend has it, in 1670 bent straight sugar sticks into canes to represent a shepherd's staff, and gave them to children at church services[1]. Another theory is that, as people decorated their Yule trees with food, the bent candy cane was invented as a functional solution. Candy with red stripes first appeared in the early 1900s.[2] Postcards before 1900s show only white colored candy canes.<br />
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==Sources==<br />
* [http://www.mooreschapel.org/christmas/candy_cane_3.html The Christmas Tradition<br />
of the Christian Candy Cane]<br />
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