"[10] As of 1988, most big confectionery companies, including Mars Inc., did not market special Halloween candies.

[11] The one exception was Brach's Confections, which made candy pumpkins among other seasonal products.

[13] By the late 1990s, competitors of Brach's realized that the market for the special Halloween candy pumpkin was expanding.

[14] Two years later, in 2000, Frankford Candy & Chocolate Company cross-licensed with ConAgra Foods to produce Peter Pan Peanut Butter Pumpkins.

[16] In addition to helping characterize Halloween, candy pumpkins played a role in the current U.S. implementation of daylight saving time.

[17] During the 1985 U.S. Congressional hearings on Daylight Saving, the industry went so far as to put candy pumpkins on the seat of every senator, hoping to win a little favor.

[17] On July 8, 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1986 into law; it contained a daylight saving rider which continued daylight saving time until the early morning of last Sunday in October;[17] this did not include Halloween night.