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Here are today’s five thing to know about Caramel Apple:

1. Candy Apples were first introduced in Arabian cuisine. The reason was that fruit was candied to preserve it.
2. Americans have over the years turned that practice into gigantic apples covered everything from red candy and caramel to chocolate, peanuts, popcorn, and more chocolate.
3. Soldiers in World War I were slanged “toffee apples”  Candy Apples are popular all over the world.
4. China vendors sell them on bicycle, England celebrates Guy Fawkes Day with caramel apples on November 5.
5. Everything from a Kool-Aid flavor to a nail-polish shade has been named candy apple red.

Today’s Pinterest Board  : Foodimentary

Today’s Food History

• 1826Noah Cushing was issued a patent for a threshing and winnowing machine.
• 1831Carl von Voit was born. German physiologist whose work on metabolism helped establish modern nutritional science.
• 1888Scottish inventor John Boyd Dunlop was issued…