Where did candy corn come from?

玉米糖是怎么来的？

Everybody can talk about candy corn.

每个人都吃过玉米糖。

Candy corn has become one of those commonalities.

玉米糖已经成为了人们的共识之一。

In the beginning, candy corn was made entirely by hand.

起初，玉米糖是完全由手工制作的。

Now, say you bite into something very sweet, like a piece of leftover candy corn.

假设你在吃非常甜的东西，比如一块吃剩的玉米糖。

So whether you like candy corn or not, one thing seems clear.

所以无论你是否喜欢玉米糖，有一件事似乎是很明确的。

According to the National Confectioner's Association, about nine billion kernels of candy corn are produced every year.

根据全国糖果商协会的数据，每年大约能够生产90亿粒玉米糖。

Candy corn looks like tiny traffic cones.

玉米糖看起来像迷你交通路锥。

Whether you love it or you, let's say, don't love it, candy corn is an iconic part of the Halloween season.

不管你喜欢还是不喜欢，玉米糖都是万圣节的标志性糖果。

Our first match-up is the second seed with 10,016 votes, candy corn.

- 我们的第一场比赛是获得 10,016 票的二号种子玉米糖。

Okay now I got some data on candy corn.

- 好的，现在我得到了一些关于玉米糖的数据。

For Halloween this year, the top three treats are chocolate, candy corn, which I know is controversial, and gummy candy.

今年的万圣节，消费前三名的糖果是巧克力、玉米糖（我知道这是有争议的）和软糖。

Just the candy corn you use as a molar.

只有你拿来当臼齿的玉米糖。

I swear to God, I'm gonna take candy corn, and shove it down your throat.

我向上帝发誓，我要把玉米糖塞进你的喉咙里。

Candy corn and Halloween-themed candies dominate whole aisles of grocery stores, and spooky shows and movies build out entire TV station schedules.

玉米糖和万圣节主题的糖果占据了杂货店的货架，恐怖的节目和电影占据了整个电视台。

A candy trade group once found that most people who eat candy corn just pop in the whole piece.

一个糖果贸易组织曾经发现，大多数吃玉米糖的人都会吃掉整块玉米糖。

Almost half of candy corn consumers, according to the National Confectioner's Association gobble the whole piece at once.

根据全国糖果商协会的数据，几乎一半的玉米糖消费者一次吞下整块。

That means your tooth was already in trouble before you bit into that candy corn — maybe because of a cavity or defective filling.

这意味着在你咬玉米糖之前，你的牙齿就有问题了——也许是因为有蛀牙或有缺陷的填充物。

Yeah, a lot of people bite the ends of candy corns, but I swallow 'em whole.

- 是的， 很多人咬玉米糖的末端，但我把它们整个吞了下去。

A traditional piece of candy corn is made of three bands of color, a wide yellow end, an orange center, and a white tip.

传统的玉米糖是由三种颜色组成的，比较宽的一端是黄色，中间是橙色，顶端是白色。