Enjoying Halloween candy and celebrating the spooky season transcends generations as new traditions mesh together with the nostalgic and older trends.
have been synonymous since the 1950s, according to historic candy researcher Susan Benjamin.
Consumer prices, excluding volatile food and energy costs, jumped 6.6% in September from a year ago — the fastest such pace in four decades. And on a month-to-month basis, such "core" prices soared 0.6% for a second straight time, defying expectations for a slowdown and signaling that the Fed's multiple rate hikes have yet to ease inflation pressures.
"It was a real boom because it was the first time working-class kids had access to the middle class, they could go in and buy candy. Today, there’s so much paranoia about candy and all the rest, but what’s out there is still affordable to them, to kids and to people without means. So in that way, it has remained steady. I don’t think anybody’s going to go, ‘Oh my word, I can’t afford candy corn,’" she added.
"The story of candy and Halloween is pretty amazing. When Halloween began, they had all these iterations, most of those things being a house party, and then being a community party, all of these aspects of it. But, you would have Halloween candy and you would have with it, fruit. So fruit, nuts and candy were sold together at the turn of the century. And they were considered the same kind of thing," Benjamin said.
"It was the packaging. They were already making lots from World War II and so on, but what they did is they just created packaging that was suitable for a little bag that you can hand out," she said.
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