Christmas Knickknacks – A Festive Lullaby for Sleep

I Can’t Sleep

Benjamin Boster & Glassbox Media

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Candy canes, tinsel, snow globes, and Rudolph—quietly twinkling in the background of holiday nights. Unwind with the soothing history of these Christmas classics, perfect for a peaceful bedtime story. Want More? Request a topic: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/request-a-topic Listen ad-free & support: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/ Shop sleep-friendly products: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/sponsors This content is derived from the Wikipedia articles on Candy Cane (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_cane), Tinsel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinsel), Snow Globe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_globe), and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer), available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.8	Welcome to the I Can't Sleep Podcast, where I read random articles from across the web to
0:45.8	bore you to sleep with my soothing voice. I'm your host, Benjamin Boster.
0:51.4	Today's episode is going to be a combination of three Wikipedia articles, one about candy canes, one on tinseles, and one on snow globes.
1:03.5	A candy cane is a cane-shaped stick candy often associated with Christmas Tide as well as St. Nicholas Day.
1:12.6	It is traditionally white with red stripes and flavored with peppermint, but the canes also
1:18.4	come in a variety of other flavors and colors.
1:22.2	A record of the 1837 exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, where confections
1:29.8	were judged comparatively, mentions stick candy. A recipe for straight peppermint candy sticks,
1:37.5	white with colored stripes, was published in the complete confectioner, pastry cook, and baker,
1:43.8	in 1844.
1:46.0	However, the earliest documentation of a candy cane is found in the short story Tom Luther's Stockings,
1:54.1	published in Ballou's Monthly Magazine in 1866.
1:58.5	Described as mammoth in size, no mention of color or flavor was provided.
2:05.4	The Nursery Monthly magazine mentions candy canes in association with Christmas in
2:10.4	1874, and Babyland magazine describes tall, twisted candy canes being hung on a Christmas tree in 1882.
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