elmicha@feddit.orgtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that candy canes may have been invented to keep kids quiet in churchEnglish
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6 days agoDomradio.de is made by the archdiocese Cologne. They don’t know about such church records and they write:
As beautiful as the story is, it is also unlikely. In the 17th century, nativity plays were forbidden in churches. There is also no written evidence of the story anywhere. However, there is evidence of a church connection. In 1957, Gregory Keller applied for a patent in the USA for the first industrial machine for making candy canes. And Keller was a Catholic priest.
(Translated by DeepL)
I ran it twice and got 173 (greener than 57%) and 176 (bluer than 75%).
I’m sure my uncalibrated monitor with a Color Temperature of “Off” helped a lot.