Brain Candy..

Here are some candy tidbits for you to ponder:

• Sixty million chocolate Easter bunnies are produced each year.
• It takes 6 minutes to produce a Marshmallow Peep.
• The melting point of cocoa butter is just below the human body temperature — which is why it literally melts in your mouth. Or your hands!
• It’s not just kids! Americans over 18 years of age consume 65 percent of the candy that’s produced each year.
• What do you do? 74 percent of kids eat the ears on chocolate bunnies first.
• Americans eat 25 pounds of candy, per person, per year. But the people of Denmark eat 36 pounds of candy per person, per year!
• Great supplies of licorice were found in King Tut’s tomb.
• The Aztecs of Mexico introduced Europe to chocolate in the 16th century.
• Cotton candy is made out of 100% sugar.