- A story says that a choirmaster, in 1670, was worried about the children sitting quietly all through the long Christmas nativity service. So he gave them something to eat to keep them quiet! As he wanted to remind them of Christmas,
- he made them into a 'J' shape like a shepherds crook, to remind them of the shepherds that visited the baby Jesus at the first christmas.
- However, the earliest records of 'candy canes' comes from over 200 years later, so the story, although rather nice, probably isn't true!
- The Bible tells us that We are lost from the strip Stripes on the candy cane should remind us that Jesus suffered and died. To give us eternal life.