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Candy apples (or toffee apples in Commonwealth English) are whole apples covered in a sugar candy coating, with a stick inserted as a handle. These are a common treat at fall festivals in Western culture in the Northern Hemisphere, such as Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night, because these festivals occur in the wake of annual apple harvests. [1]
Bonfire toffee (also known as treacle toffee, Plot toffee, or Tom Trot) is a hard, brittle toffee associated with Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night (also known as "Bonfire Night") in the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The toffee tastes very strongly of black treacle ( molasses ), and cheap versions can be quite bitter.
A Christmas Eve celebration bonfire in Louisiana, United States. Bonfire Night is a name given to various yearly events marked by bonfires and fireworks. [1] These include Guy Fawkes Night (5 November) in Great Britain; All Hallows' Eve (31 October); May Eve (30 April); [2] Midsummer Eve/Saint John's Eve (23 June); [3] the Eleventh Night (11 July) among Northern Ireland Protestants; and the ...
Apple bobbing. Apple bobbing, also known as bobbing for apples, is a game often played on Halloween and Bonfire Night. The game is played by filling a tub or a large basin with water and putting apples in the water. Because apples are less dense than water, they will float at the surface. Players (usually children) then try to catch one with ...
My experience, growing up in a suburb north of Manchester, was that Bonfire Toffee - yes, treacle toffee - was only ever associated with Bonfire Night as Bonfire is common to both. I left Manchester in 1965 at age 19 and over the years up to then I don't remember ever hearing of Halloween, let alone anyone making treacle toffee to celebrate it.
During the period of industrialisation, many traditional holidays were discontinued, but Guy Fawkes Night continued to be celebrated. In the 19th century (1862), parkin and treacle toffee with potatoes baked in the fire had become the traditional foods of Guy Fawkes Night, and in Leeds, 5 November became known as Parkin Night.
Dick Vitale is one of college basketball’s defining and most enduring figures.. After coaching for 16 years, Vitale joined ESPN in 1979, only a few months into the network’s existence, and ...
This probably originated when the toffee apple was a popular type of candy. Apple-giving in much of Canada, however, has been taboo since the 1960s when stories (of almost certainly questionable authenticity) appeared of razors hidden inside Halloween apples; parents began to check over their children's fruit for safety before allowing them to ...