Who knows why there is a hole in the center of a lifesaver candy?

Question

Who knows why there is a hole in the center of a lifesaver candy?

Answer 1

I do. Because if you were to swallow it, the hole would still let air get through.

Answer 2

There was no dead daughter or tragic death from choking, and thus no invention spurred by the desire to spare other parents.

Clarence Crane, the inventor, envisioned a round, flat peppermint in preference to the pillow-shaped ones then being imported from Europe, and he hired a pharmaceutical pill maker to press his new mints into a circle and punch a hole in them. It was their shape that inspired the name - they looked like life savers, so Life Savers they became.

Answer 3

Old wives tale says it is so if you get choked on it you would still be able to breathe through the hole...

Answer 4

because they made it that way?

Answer 5

Due to malfunctioning of their machinery, the manufacturer found it was easier to make the candy with a hole in the center