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[The first historical reference to the familiar cane shape though goes back to 1670, when the choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany, bent the sugar-sticks into canes to represent a shepherd's staff. The all-white candy canes were given out to children during the long-winded nativity services.
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The first historical reference to the candy cane in America was in 1847, when a German immigrant called August Imgard decorated the Christmas tree in his Wooster, Ohio home with candy cane.
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the candy canes became famous
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It was around the seventeenth century that Christians in Europe began to adopt the use of Christmas trees as part of their Christmas celebrations. They trees were decorated using foods like cookies and and sometimes sugar-stick candies
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they would turn them upside down to make a J. They thought that was Christianity.
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they were still trying making them before the 17 century.
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after 50 years later the first red right and white candy canes were invited.
