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Chocolate Is a Sweet Treat, Not a Baked Good

Sary: I don't think baked goods fall into the candy ye, i don't think th but it fits into all seryous definitionsgoexcept di say it was mostly made of sugar. Sary: Do you know where the word candy comes from? It's from a sanscrit root, and i'm not going to pronounce it right, but it's k h a n d cond, which means to break. And then by the sevent tenth century, candy became a stand alone word, as opposed to candy is an adjective.

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