red hot our team is red hot our team is r.e.d.red h.o.t hot once we start we can't be stopped

So while making christmas themed pretzels with chocolate my roommate and I discussed what we could use instead of an m&m on top, and I thought of redhots. I haven't had one in ages, but it sounds amazing right now. Those things were so strong and yet, so delicious! I love the cinnamon flavor and how even eating one was a bit intense. I think they definitely don't get utilized enough.

•  In the early 1930's, Ferrara Pan Candy Company created the famous Red Hot using the cold panned candy method
• The name "cinnamon imperials" is a generic name used by the candy industry to indicate a piece of cinnamon hard candy.
• Originally used for cake and cookie toppings
• The cold panned process involves building candy pieces from candy centers and tossing them into revolving pans while adding flavor, color and other candy ingredients.  This process continues until the pieces become the desired size.  

Okay that is all I really found about red hots...kinda sad right. I bet you feel like you need more trivia facts today, yes? So we'll give you a few more  candy facts....a personal favorite...THE TOOTSIE ROLL...

• It was the first penny candy to be individually wrapped
• Manufactured since 1896
• Leo Hirshfield named the candy after the nickname of his daughter, Clara "Tootsie" Hirshfield
• Tootsie Rolls became a standard part of American soldiers' field rations, due to the hardiness of the candy under a variety of environmental conditions
• More than 62 million Tootsie Rolls are made daily
•  Tootsie Roll Industries is one of the largest candy manufacturers in the world
• The ingredients of a chocolate Tootsie Roll are sugar, corn syrup, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, condensed milk, artificial cocoa flavoring whey, soy lecithin, orange extract, and artificial and condensed flavors.
• The Tootsie Roll jingle was recorded at Blank Tape Studios in 1976. It is still occasionally played today. It aired on television regularly for more than 20 years. The jingle was sung by a nine-year-old girl and a thirteen-year-old boy, the children of jazz musicians and friends of the song's composer.