Monday, December 29, 2003

Big Rock Candy Mountain - Man Made

Many individuals have a sweet tooth.  Myself, I like peppermints and seemingly always have.  I’m not sure if that’s because peppermints were the candy bribe of choice when I was a child, as I squirmed through Sunday sermons, or, because a good peppermint is a tasty treat after a cigar.  With that in mind, I point you to a Chicago Tribune story on, what used to be, the candy cane manufacturing capitol of the world. You see, it is not the candy cane manufacturing capitol any longer because the artificial price supports for sugar in the U.S. have driven candy cane and candy makers out of the country for less expensive sugar.

The story is linked via Daniel Drezner whose title to his post on the subject bears the title “Protectionism never tasted so sour."

The Chicago Tribune requires the onerous task of registration and password creation to access the story.  Or, you can use, my all purpose user name of nytimesoops and password of nytimes which I am using for almost all online sources which require registration.  It’s easy and does not require memorizing different user names and passwords for access to those who require registration.

Posted by John Venlet on 12/29 at 06:59 AM
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