Little known fact: Candy Corn was invented in the 1880s by George Renninger of the Wunderle Candy Company. He created approximately 10,000 pieces in the first batch and, after tasting it, vowed never to make any more - describing it as a horrible accident of confectionary sacrilege.

Since then, despite the fact that millions of people are tricked into trying candy corn each year and no one ever makes more, Candy Corn still mysteriously appears in every Halloween bucket and on candy shelves.

Some of this is due to people passing old candy corn to trick or treaters every year, and their parents passing it on the next year, and so on - so in theory you could be eating a piece of candy corn from the original batch of 10,000.

That doesn't explain, however, where the rest of the candy corn came from. Every Walmart, for example, has millions of pieces of Candy Corn now.

Given that no one is currently manufacturing Candy Corn, no one is quite sure how or why the Candy Corn has come to be so plentiful, but one thing is certain...it can't be explained by modern science.

The two most popular theories:

1) Some hostile life form is using Candy Corn in its evil plot to take over the Earth.

2) Candy Corn itself is an evil lifeform capable of asexual reproduction and has plans to take over the Earth.

Given this post, I can only conclude that you are somehow connected to this candy corn conspiracy, I will find and wear my tinfoil hat when I read your blog from here on out.

;o)

Also: Candy Corn is the fruit cake of Halloween.

I realize you are very very busy, but I'm starting to go into TennZen withdrawl...come back!!