For some, the best part of Halloween is all the free candy. And there is a lot of it. 90 million pounds of chocolate are sold for Halloween — more than twice the amount sold at Valentine’s Day. Over 20 million pounds of that is just candy corn! The tri-colored chewy confection was invented in 1898…
31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN – Day 19
This appears to be the earliest recorded instance of trick-or-treating (as we know it) in North America: “The old time custom of keeping up Hallowe’en was not forgotten last night by the youngsters of the city,” reported the Kingston, Ontario Daily News in 1866. “They had their maskings and their marry-makings, and perambulated the streets after…