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IT'S TIME FOR A HELPING OF CANDY FACTS!!! YYYUUUUMMMMM!!

  Candy Corn, Tootsie Rolls, Snickers, and Hershey's Chocolate products are popular with trick or treaters. Other than how good they taste, what else is there to know about these yummy treats? Take a look at some of these fun candy facts.      Candy Corn  was invented in the 1880s by George Rennigner.     The oldest company to produce the surgary corn is The Goelitz Company which is now known as the  Jelly Belly Company . They have used the same recipe for over 100 years. Can't get enough of this Halloween classic? At the moment, you can buy 10 pound for $81 dollars. Approximately 9 billion pieces of it will be made each year.    Tootsie Rolls were invented in 1896 by Leo Hirshfield. The product is named after Hirschfield's daughter whose nickname was "Tootsie". In 1896 Tootsie Roll cost one cent. In fact, it was the first "individually wrapped penny candy". Over 100 years later, consumers can still find Tootsie Rolls for a penny

THE PATUM OF BERGA FROM CATALONIA SPAIN!

    The   Patum of Berga  is the famous firecracker party celebrated at Berga. It is a traditional celebration performed during the  Corpus Christi  and it has been declared by Catalonia government as traditional party of national interest in 1983 and after by UNESCO as oral and immaterial patrimony of the humanity in 2005.     This celebration consists of diverse representations of mystical and symbolic figures which dance according to the rhythm of the music and drums and it is mainly characterized by the utilization of fire and pyrotechnics.     The Wednesday before the Thursday of Corpus, the tabal and the giants cross the city announcing the beginning of the parties. Later, the mimic drama begins which is divided in several acts and it represents: the intense fights of the Christians against the Moors archangel  San Miguel , with the help of angels, fights against  Lucifer  and his devils the jeers against the Arabic commander  Abul-Afer  (known also as Bullafer), con