In the audience was the "candy bomber" Gail Halvorsen, now 92, who, as an American airforce pilot, dropped sweets to children during the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, which kept the city's population alive during the Soviet blockade and which became the strongest symbol of US-German friendship.
For weeks state TV has drawn attention to the hijab in televised debates, and pro-hijab posters likening badly veiled women to unwrapped candy bars preyed on by flies made the rounds on social networks.
Blackpool is the town of candy floss, kiss-me-quick and good old-fashioned fun.
Her biggest hit songs were On the Good Ship Lollipop, from Bright Eyes (1934), which describes a child's dream of a candy shop, and Animal Crackers in My Soup, from Curly Top (1935), sung at an orphanage while skipping between tables at lunch as the kids beat time with their knives and forks.
Garrard was convicted of killing her granddaughter by making her run for hours as punishment for a lie about candy.
Nothing fancy – a bottomless pot of coffee, soft drinks, snacks from an old-fashioned snack machine filled with peanuts and candy – all were on offer to the local men who came by to shoot the breeze, play checkers or afternoon-long poker games.
"You don't have to look too far from this magnificent hall to find children still living in poverty or trapped in failing schools," Clinton said, before referencing the fateful night when Martin went out to buy candy and an iced tea.
It felt like not being able to stop eating handful after handful of candy.
But it's hard to stop, because news is the popping candy that I can pretend is wholemeal bread.
It is political tokenism, machismo, image candy.
Phoned-in major-chord sound candy.
