Candy sales strong despite recession

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

In a broad recession-related shift, many Americans have lost their taste for fancy cars, clothes and vacations, but their appetite for candy, it seems, only has become more pronounced.

The California unemployment rate climbed to 12.2 percent in August and more home foreclosures loom on the horizon, but sweets are going like gangbusters in San Francisco and elsewhere, according to store owners, candymakers and food industry analysts.