National Sweetest Day 2024. From its inception as candy day in 1916, this day. Sweetest day hails from all the way back in 1922 when a dozen of cleveland’s candy companies banded together to make the day a little sweeter for some of the city’s most vulnerable people.
Sweetest day hails from all the way back in 1922 when a dozen of cleveland’s candy companies banded together to make the day a little sweeter for some of the city’s most vulnerable people. Here’s how it came about and where it’s still celebrated.