There’s a candy lobby?
Turns out that there’s a sweeter reason than just “saving energy” in Congress’s move to extend Daylight Saving Time by one week:
The candy lobby also played a significant role in pushing Halloween into daylight saving time, believing that extra hour of trick-or-treating in daylight would spur more candy sales but arguing that it would decrease deaths, according to Michael Downing, the author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time, an amusing book about the myths and realities behind daylight saving time.
Color me impressed. The talking M&M’s have more power than we could have ever imagined.
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