Friday, October 17, 2008

Fun Fact Friday #18

Ahhh....Politics and Halloween...two of my favorite things...

Did you know...

In 1985, the candy lobby (yes, there is a candy lobby) tried to convince Congress to move the end of Daylight Saving Time to AFTER Halloween so that the kiddies could have more time to trick-or-treat.  Of course resulting in more candy sales.  In fact, according to some, The national Confectioners Association even left pumpkins full of candy on Senators chairs.  It never passed in '85, but did in 2007.

1 comment:

Peanut said...

time for more candy how is that bad? lol