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Today we’ll continue our talks of food series and we’ll talk about candy.
    Candy is a rich, sweet food made mostly of sugar, eggs, butter, cream, and many kinds of fruit, and nuts, and other flavoring. There are now more than two thousand kinds of candy, and people are inventing more kinds all the time.
    All candy can be divided into two kinds, hard candy and soft candy. Both fudge and candy canes are made by boiling sugar in water. How hard the candy gets depends on how long you boil it. To find out when it is ready, a bit of it is dropped into cold water. Fudge or any other soft candy will make a soft ball in cold water when it has been cooked enough. Chewy candy, like butterscotch or caramels, will make a firm ball. Hard candies and peanut brittle will make a hard ball.
    Most candy nowadays is made by machines, and some of these machines are quite wonderful. Cherries are covered with chocolate by machines. Candy bars are filled with nuts or caramel and covered with chocolate—all by machines.
    We know that people in ancient times ate candy too. The Egyptians wrote about candy and even drew pictures of what their candy looked like. It was made of honey and was shaped in little mounds. The Romans had some candy too, but it was expensive and only very rich people could afford it.
    Because candy tastes so good, it is easy to eat too much of it. But a sensible amount of candy helps make a person strong. When people are going on long journeys and cannot take much food with them, candy is one of the things they take. Admiral Richard E. Byrd, for instance, took a lot of candy for his men, when he made his trip to the North Pole. In World War II the soldiers were given bars of chocolate as part of their rations.