There are different legends for the Christmas candy cane. One said that are made in the shape of J to represent the precious name of Jesus. The one that I will tell my children is: the story began in 1670 in Cologne, Germany. The choirmaster of the Cathedral gave the children white sugar sticks and since giving our candies in churches was sacrilegious he bent the sticks on one and so to look more like a shepherd’s crook. He explained his action not with trying to keep the children quite at the Christmas eve service, but with an attempt to remained us that Jesus is the God shepherd who laid down his life for his sheep (John 10:11). He inhaled religious meaning in that sugar treat.
In 1847 August Imgard of Wooster, Ohio, a German-Swedish immigrant, decorate the Christmas tree with these white candy canes to entertain his nephews. About a half century later someone added the red stripe. It was said that the white color stands for the Christ purity, the red one – for his wounds he suffered for mankind, the peppermint flavor – hyssop herb, described in Bible for purification.
In 1920 Bob McCormack from Georgia stared a mass production of these sweets.