[7] The first two verses are: I want to go back to the stick-candy days,Before they made bonbons of choc'late and glaze;I want to go back to the dear little shopWhere the little old lady sold ginger-beer pop,And made little cookies with raisins, that wentLike lightning because they were two for a cent!I know the green street where the little shop stood,And, oh, the stick-candy that tasted so good!Lemon and wintergreen, cinnamon bar,Each in its round little, fat little jar—I see through the glamor of childhood the glintOf the sassafras, horehound and white peppermint!Stick candy is also mentioned in a 1909 poem, "The Land of Candy", by Madison Julius Cawein:[8] First place that they came to, why,Was a wood that reached the sky;Forest of Stick Candy.

My!How the little boy made it fly!Why, the tree trunks were as great,Big around as, at our gate,Are the sycamores; the wholeStriped like a barber's pole...Stick candy is produced by mixing granulated sugar (and sometimes also corn syrup) with water and a small amount of cream of tartar.

The dough is mixed with color and flavoring, then drawn and twisted, producing the characteristic spiral pattern, and finally cut to the proper length and allowed to cool and harden.

Stick candy is generally sold shrink-wrapped in clear plastic, and traditionally displayed for sale in wide-mouthed glass jars.

Stick candy is sometimes used as an ingredient in other foods: crushed and used in ice cream,[9] pudding[10] or frosting,[11] or cut into thin slices and used as a topping for cakes.