Last week's episode of the BBC Radio 4 series "The Kitchen Cabinet" talked about food around Bonfire Night, with the food historian on the panel discussing how

Last week's episode of the BBC Radio 4 series "The Kitchen Cabinet" talked about food around Bonfire Night, with the food historian on the panel discussing how the food's always been melded a lot with the food of Halloween, but discussing how various food items (such as toffee apples) did become more prominent "once the persecution of Catholics became a less significant part of the celebrations". Because really that's what it was all about to start with - persecuting, marginalising and generally being unpleasant to Catholics.