Candy Cane is a Religious symbol?

[Dude]

Someone just emailed this to me, I had no idea....

History Of The Candy Cane

In the late 1800's, a candy maker in Indiana wanted to express the meaning of Christmas through a symbol made of candy. He bent one of his white candy sticks into the shape of a candy cane and incorporated symbols of Christ's love and sacrifice. First, he used a white peppermint stick. The color white symbolizes the purity of Jesus. Next, he added three small stripes to symbolize the pain inflicted upon Jesus before his death on the cross. He added a bold stripe to represent the blood Jesus shed for mankind. With the crook on top, it looks like a shepherd's staff, because Jesus is the shepherd of man. Upside down, it becomes the letter "J", symbolizing the first letter in Jesus' name. The candy maker wanted everyone to remember what Christmas is really all about.

[Dude]

actually I didn't believe it, but there is a lot of stuff about candy canes and religion...
here is another one.


Legend has it that in 1670, the choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany handed out sugar sticks among his young singers to keep them quiet during the long Living Creche ceremony. In honor of the occasion, he had the candies bent into shepherds' crooks. In 1847, a German-Swedish immigrant named August Imgard of Wooster, Ohio, decorated a small blue spruce with paper ornaments and candy canes. It wasn't until the turn of the century that the red and white stripes and peppermint flavors became the norm.
In the 1920s, Bob McCormack began making candy canes as special Christmas treats for his children, friends and local shopkeepers in Albany, Georgia. It was a laborious process - pulling, twisting, cutting and bending the candy by hand. It could only be done on a local scale.
In the 1950s, Bob's brother-in-law, Gregory Keller, a Catholic priest, invented a machine to automate candy cane production. Packaging innovations by the younger McCormacks made it possible to transport the delicate canes on a large scale.
Although modern technology has made candy canes accessible and plentiful, they've not lost their purity and simplicity as a traditional holiday food.

[penny]

See, you catch your breath too...

[Dude]

I was hoping you would post inbetween so I could yell at you. :D

(just kidding)

someone sent me that email, then I started thinking is this really right so I searched on google and there were several things about religion and candy canes.

I just though it was candy, who knew?....