NYP: Weakness in peppermint crops and COVID-caused logistical issues have created a problem for Big Candy.
“We only received half of our candy cane order for the holiday season and sold out almost immediately. We currently have zero in stock,” Mitchell Cohen, the owner of Economy Candy on the Lower East Side, told The Post. “Raw material and ingredient shortages globally have had quite an impact.”
It was a first for the store, which has been in business since 1937. Cohen said they sold more than 12,000 candy canes before running dry.
“Since candy canes were invented, we’ve had candy canes,” he said.
Peppermint production in the United States has declined nearly 25 percent over the past decade, according to the US Department of Agriculture. MORE
Thank goodness they are a kind of eternal candy—I still have plenty on hand from LAST year(or was it the year before?…)
Uh oh! I’m now going to Hammond’s Candy website to see what’s up for them. We wait all year for Hammond’s peppermint candy canes.
Get a mouthful of this one…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CandyeKane01.jpg
I always like working them until they looked like long swords.
Then crunching them to bits.
Of course those were the days of youth when our teeth were made of titanium…
sigh*
I have removed sugar from my diet. Going on 7 years now.
The VA gave me a new pill last month, “Empagliflozin”. It has knocked my type2 sugar numbers down for a loop. Still not eating sugar canes though. FYI
The Grinch is a Jackass and he lives in the White House!
Use those round peppermint candies as replacements if possible. Plenty of those around, red types or greens.
I honestly don’t like the taste.
1 or 2 small Butter Rum or Butter Scotch for me around Christmas.
I just saw candy canes in the store that weigh 2 lbs each.
This must be fake news propaganda by leftist grinches against Christmas
Candy cane. The fruitcake of the candy world
This will no doubt be the #1 item discussed by Biden tonight because candy cane privilege or something and his patience is wearing thin.
Quit cutting down Christmas trees before they produce the candy canes. Duh.
Symbolic of Christ
e.g. shepherd’s hook
Upside down a J for JESUS
stripes and color etc.
Good!!
Not in the same status as the Goddamned disgusting Costco Apple Pie (that no one eats and is left behind for me to deal with) or a DVD of A Christmas Story, which will get you tossed off the property if you show up on my door step with either, but something I could live without.
They think that the lack of candy, and turkey can ruin holidays. If there is not one tree, not one light, not one santa’s helper, it will still be Christmas
1 or 2 Pep O Mint lifesavers in a glass of bourbon makes a white trash mint julip
They should be happy with what they go.. Colorado hasn’t received ANYTHING in days!