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Why is the candy name 'Lifesaver' appropriate?
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#40876. Asked by mancandy. (Nov 07 03 8:03 PM)
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Hamlet.
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It looks like a minature lifesaver used in water...
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mancandy
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no. think more about eating it...why would it be called a lifesaver with relation to consumption?
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mibmob
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Stop you choking. Could also be like Kendal mint cake and give you high energy sugar when you needed it.
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sequoianoir
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Consumption as in eating it
OR Pulmonary tuberculosis ?
Otherwise I'd guess at it being the sugar fix that you might need if you are a diabetic, have a blood sugar deficit and entering a diabetic coma.
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mancandy
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hahah stop!! it has a hole in the middle for air if it gets lodged in your throat!
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Brainyblonde
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In 1912, when candy maker Clarence Crane first marketed "Crane's Peppermint Life Savers," life preservers were just beginning to be used on ships-the round kind with a hole in the center for tossing to a passenger fallen overboard. But that is not the whole story. Crane had been basically a chocolate maker. Chocolates were hard to sell in summer, however, and so he decided to try to make a mint that would boost his summertime sales. At that time most of the mints available came from Europe and they were square in shape. Crane was buying bottles of flavoring in a drug store one day when he noticed the druggist using a pill-making machine. It was operated by hand and made round, flat pills. Crane had his idea. The pill making machines worked fine for his mints, and he was even able to add the life preserver touch by punching a tiny hole in the middle. Later Crane was to sell his rights to his new candy for under three thousand dollars. He may have regretted that decision, for "Life Savers" earned the new manufacturer many millions of dollars.
 http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/story005.htm
SAFETY WARNING: HARD CANDIES CAN BE SLIPPERY AND CAUSE CHOKING -- ESPECIALLY IN CHILDREN
For more information on keeping kids safe, click here
http://www.candystand.com/lifesavers/
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