In 1919 Bob McCormack began making candy canes for local use and - TopicsExpress



          

In 1919 Bob McCormack began making candy canes for local use and sales in Albany, Georgia, and by the middle of the century his company (originally the Famous Candy Company, then the Mills-McCormack Candy Company, and later Bobs Candies) had become one of the worlds leading candy cane producers. But candy cane manufacturing initially required a fair bit of labor that limited production quantities (the canes had to be bent manually as they came off the assembly line in order to create their J shape,) and it was McCormacks brother-in-law, a Catholic priest named Gregory Harding Keller, who came up with the solution: Father Keller invented the Keller Machine that automated the process of shaping straight candy sticks into candy canes. I have heard a lot of stories as to the history of the candy cane, but this is the only one I am sure about.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:00:27 +0000

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