{"id":5489,"date":"2011-11-01T03:57:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T01:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=5489"},"modified":"2012-12-02T02:06:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T02:06:32","slug":"happy-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/happy-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Halloween!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting little holiday data point for ye:<\/a><\/p>\n

According to Susan Whiteside, vice president of communications at the National Confectioner’s Association (NCA), confectionery sales for Halloween 2011 in the United States will be $2.3 billion \u2014 a new record.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Indeed, despite these hard economic times, Halloween candy sales continue to rise by 1 to 3 percent each year.
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\nDivvying up the total among the U.S. population, the average American will spend about $7.36 on Halloween candy this year. “Snack-sized versions of the candies that are popular year-round are the most popular at Halloween,” Whiteside told Life’s Little Mysteries, a sister site to LiveScience. “The focus is typically on small, individually wrapped single-serve packages of chocolate and non-chocolate candies.”
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\nOf course, one type of candy becomes popular during Halloween that is not often eaten the rest of the year: candy corn.\u00a0 “About 35 million pounds of candy corn was made for the season,” Whiteside said. That’s 1.76 ounces, or about 27 individual candy corns, for each and every American.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Emphasis mine. Yeah, I know it’s a holiday, but that’s not the kind of record we should be setting at a time when childhood obesity is at an all-time high.<\/p>\n

And lord knows who’s eating all the candy corn… IMHO, candy corn is to Halloween what fruit cake is to Christmas:\u00a0ubiquitous, yet\u00a0completely lacking in appeal.\u00a0When I was a kid, candy corn typically joined the other “Trick Or Treat” bag rejects (Necco wafers, black licorice and snack-sized Almond Joys) in the trash.<\/p>\n

[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L8yuvMsvNqY]<\/p>\n

What Lewis Black sez… Whoever wants “my” 27 individual candy corns can have ’em. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

(h\/t Jezebel<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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