Red White Green Festive Peppermint Candy Stripes Cushion

Cheerful and festive, peppermint candy cane coloured stripes of red, white and green, perfect for the Christmas holidays or anytime you want a sweet infusion without the calories! Yummy looking peppermint candy design on a comfy soft pillow. If you want to get creative, you can use the customise option to change the white background colour; or, rotate, move or resize the stripes! Candy canes are traditional Christmas sweets. According to folklore they first appeared in the late 1600s in Cologne, Germany - at the Christmas Eve church service, children were given sticks of peppermint candy to keep them quiet. To justify the candy, the church choirmaster asked the candymaker to put hooks on the ends of the candy sticks, thus resembling shepherds' crooks and relating to the nativity scene. This account may or may not be true, as it can't really be verified. Candy canes were first recorded in association with Christmas in 1874, and were first hung on Christmas trees about that time. Have a happy Christmas!