Kraft Foods introduced "Wrapples" (with commercials featuring "Johnny Wrappleseed"). These were small slices of caramel that could be wrapped over apples to make quick-and-easy caramel apples at home.
According to legend, a Kraft Foods employee named Dan Walker invented the first caramel apple one day during the 1950s when he was trying to figure out what to do with a bunch of extra caramel candies. Good thinkin', Dan!
Halloween became a bonafide holiday celebration due to the influence of Irish and Scottish immigrants. By 1900, many Americans celebrated the spooky holiday, which ultimately grew into a cultural phenomenon — from sea to "The Shining" sea.
There's no consensus as to the origins of caramel, but some experts say a hard, crunchy version of caramel was first concocted by Arabs.
According to some historians, apple trees were the first trees to be cultivated by humans. In fact, experts argue, the origin of all modern-day varieties of apples was in Anatolia (near present-day Turkey).
