Imagine making 2,400 candy canes by hand. The Sweenor family doesn't have to. The candy-making family does it every holiday season, the way Walter Sweenor did for this 70-plus-year-old business ...

The rest of the assembly line includes one of the Gallants' four sons: Brandon, who slides the canes into a plastic sleeve; then Pete steps in to carefully bend over the top to form a hook.

“The stick got its cane-like hook, one unsubstantiated story claims, when a 17th-century choirmaster at Germany’s Cologne Cathedral convinced a local candy maker to bend sugar sticks into the ...

The stick got its cane-like hook, one unsubstantiated story claims, when a 17th-century choirmaster at Germany’s Cologne Cathedral convinced a local candy maker to bend sugar sticks into the ...

As the candy cooled, they made a sort of red and white sandwich, pulling the candy, twisting it, cutting it and giving it the hook that makes it a cane.

Candy Canes are a classic, but is there a right way to eat one? A new survey from the National Confectioners Association is getting some answers. They asked 1,500 Americans how they eat candy canes.