Matthew mimics what I wanted to do all day — take a bite out of the candy-colored confections. But I shouldn’t make light of the topic. During the winter of 1944-45, the Nazis starved out the Dutch as punishment for the battle of Arnheim. Thousands of people died, and those that survived resorted to eating tulip bulbs for food. The Dutch are the tallest people in the world, except for the generation that suffered the Great Hunger of that winter.