This story has been updated to correct a spelling typo of "Chicken Feed." Wednesday is National Candy Corn Day and there are plenty of ways to celebrate, whether it be by cracking open a fresh bag ...

Decades ago, candy corn was a year-round candy called "chicken feed," and aimed at agricultural and rural families, according to History.com. (You can see Jelly Belly vice chairman Bill Kelley ...

including candy corn. Though, at the time, it was called "chicken feed." Candy corn was then a newly-invented kind of confection called "buttercream." It took the place of marzipan candies ...

Whether or not you already have your costume picked out, treats and Halloween candy chosen (and hidden where you can't eat it all before the big night) and your scary movie cued up and ready to ...

Instead, it was supposed to be a gag candy, a joke or a novelty. You see, the name “Chicken Feed” was pretty literal. Most Americans saw corn as food for livestock, not people. It wasn’t ...

Click here for the 2022 version of this story. Candy corn. Just the name makes some people salivate and others sick to their stomachs. As Halloween returns candy corn to prominence, it also re ...

and I can’t see eating a candy corn pizza. I just can’t.” Chicken feed, as candy corn was originally called because of its appearance, was invented by the Wunderle Candy Company in the late ...

Created in the late 19th century, candy corn was originally called “chicken feed” and was marketed to agricultural and rural families. Today, it’s a divisive candy option, but still ranks ...

Several years later, the Goelitz Confectionery Co., now Jelly Belly, began to produce candy corn, calling it Chicken Feed. Boxes were adorned with a rooster logo and the tagline: “Something ...

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Autumn resurfaces the annual argument: Are you Team Candy Corn or not? For some, just the name of the candy makes them salivate. Others recoil at the re-emergence of the Halloween treat.