Candy Economics

Sugar. Sugar. Sugar. Chocolate. Chocolate. Chocolate. Will there be any available today? Will those who usually stray from such morsels break with their fast? Will there be a little coconut or almonds, a little caramel or strawberry that is given place today like no other day of the year? What about those popcorn balls or chocolate raisins, or those candy apples and chocolate bananas? Ribbon threads, pixie sticks, chewing gum, nerds, Andies, and candy bars...oh doesn't it make the reader want to start singing, “Who can make the sun rise?...the candy man can.”

Today above most every day of the year is a day to celebrate candy. Wikianswers.com says, “According to Nielson Research, approximately $1.9 billion (or 598 million pounds) is sold during the Halloween season in the U.S.”. Now that's celebrating at the grandest level. Where do all those pounds go? To waste? Or rather, to waists? More than likely it will take a couple of months just to work off what is eaten today alone.

But then again, to be realistic about things, the economy needs a boost, and the public moral needs a little sugar high to get over all the woes, doesn't it? Besides, how are gyms and infomercials with all their products supposed to solicit people with any success if there are not reasons to sell their products? Shoe companies who emphasize walking and running for exercise, weight loss centers, and diet plans need economic stimulus too, so with the 598 million pounds to work off, they should have no trouble at all finding patrons. Maybe there should be a new stimulus package offered to candy companies so they will produce enough delicacies to make the entire nation overweight which will cause manufacturers to make more and more exercise equipment so that gyms and diet plans will flourish, and shoe companies will excel, and oh, the thought of all of it is giving the writer a headache.

By the way, where are the Almond Joys and Mars bars, because the writer now needs energy to work out?

Until tomorrow...Why Say More?