Today I learned on Nostr: TIL Candy corn was called "Chicken feed" when it was first produced in the late ...

TIL Candy corn was called "Chicken feed" when it was first produced in the late 1880s. The Goelitz Confectionery Company, who bought the manufacturing rights in 1898, alluded to the old name with the advertising slogan "Something worth crowning for".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_corn
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