Since I do know where it comes from, I thought I'd pass it along. The candy cane is a Judeo-Christian Christmas tradition. The red stripe indicates the shed blood of Jesus, the white stripe indicates the purity of Christ, and the cane is that of the shepherd's crook as in "the Lord is my Shepherd." That's why it is associated with Christmas. It has become highly secularized though and I doubt most people know where it came from, even here in America where it is so prominent.