Candy corn is a food that is strongly associated with Halloween, when the majority of it is sold, so to have a national day for it just before Halloween itself does make sense.
Despite its name, candy corn is not made from pieces of corn, although it does contain corn syrup. It may sound like a relative of popcorn, but it is in fact nothing like it.
As well as the aforementioned corn syrup, candy corn is made from water, sugar, carnauba wax (a wax made from a type of palm tree leaf) as well as fondant and marshmallow. In appearance, the finished product looks like a kernel of corn, which is where the name comes from, although they are bigger. Each piece of candy corn has three colours, with a yellow band at the broad end, a white band at the pointed tip and an orange centre. They were first created by George Renninger in the late 19th century in Philadelphia.
There are other variants to the standard yellow/orange/white version, such as one intended for Thanksgiving and another for Christmas, and even a carrot flavoured one for Easter.
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