Halloween & Candy Apple Day

Happy Halloween and cheers to the person who decided the best way to eat an apple was covering it in a sugar candy coating and inserting a wooden stick to make it easier to handle!   And is a caramel apple also a candy apple?  Equally as delicious, but debatable.  Candy apples were born in 1908 at a New Jersey candy shop when William Kolb dipped some apples into red cinnamon candy for the Christmas season.   Candy apples are now a staple at fall fairs and carnivals – and of course on Halloween.  Dentists everywhere are celebrating Candy Apple Day today.  In August 1976 Gerd Muller was awarded a patent for his “Glass Ceramic as Filler in Polymerizable Dental Filling Compositions” (US Pat. No. 3,973,972).  His compound allowed fillings to look more like teeth – not gold or silver.

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