salt water taffy

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this shit is some kind of proustian memory trigger of summer weekends on the jersey shore. so delicious -- and so devoid of any redeeming nutritional value. i'm sure the wax paper is bad for the environment, too.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
love it	19
i have never spent time on the u.s. east coast	4
i am gabbneb and probably had some bullshit williams-sonoma version of this once	3
hate it	2
i hate america	1
i am diabetic	0

― get bent, Monday, 28 April 2008 01:55 (seventeen years ago)

i voted! :D

― gabbneb, Monday, 28 April 2008 01:57 (seventeen years ago)

williams-sonoma is for suburbanites, btw

― gabbneb, Monday, 28 April 2008 01:58 (seventeen years ago)

i had saltwater taffy at a very early age, but i've never done the garden state, sorry

― gabbneb, Monday, 28 April 2008 01:59 (seventeen years ago)

Rich suburbanites who are too scared to go in 'ethnic' shops and therefore pay like $10 for a tin of paprika are the SW demographic. Gab has Zabar's for that ;-D.

My mom is in Florida feeding this addiction of hers right now.

I know it's not the same, but I loved Tangy Taffy when I was little.

― suzy, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:01 (seventeen years ago)

Gab is too lazy to ever go to the West Side, he has the even more expensive version down the street. He also first visited Kalustyan's around age 6.

also saltwater taffy is too boring to opine on

― gabbneb, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:03 (seventeen years ago)

Happy Passover guys!

― gabbneb, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:03 (seventeen years ago)

jersey shore thing = so true

watching the taffy being pulled is never not mesmerizing

― impudent harlot, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:04 (seventeen years ago)

this is another one i've been meaning to add to my list of 'american foods to try in america'. can i get this shit on the west coast?

― Rubyredd, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:06 (seventeen years ago)

i just got some at fosselman's in alhambra, california.

http://www.fosselmans.com/

― get bent, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:08 (seventeen years ago)

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/05/28/PH2007052801195.jpg

― suzy, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:11 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/Math/CIMS/IMPHSS/Images/taffy.jpg

― get bent, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:13 (seventeen years ago)

they do the taffy thing on the sc coast, too. so nostalgic!

― tehresa, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:13 (seventeen years ago)

http://homepage2.nifty.com/backpagerecords/SalyWaterTaffy.jpg

― get bent, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:16 (seventeen years ago)

oh wait, i think i might have first had it in Westport, CT

― gabbneb, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:16 (seventeen years ago)

I voted just like gabbneb! :D

― Aimless, Monday, 28 April 2008 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

james' in atlantic city on the boardwalk.

― ian, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:15 (seventeen years ago)

fucking goddamnit jody now i am craving this hardcore.

― ian, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

The rare times I go to Columbia State Park in the Gold Country of California, I make sure to go to their candy store and get salt water taffy.

― Michael White, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:35 (seventeen years ago)

never been to the jersey shore; usually get my taffy fix at the goldenrod, york beach, ME

http://www.yorkharborinn.com/images/York-Goldenrod.jpg

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:47 (seventeen years ago)

... which has an all-time classic logo imho

http://www.thegoldenrod.com/images/Header.jpg

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:48 (seventeen years ago)

Is this stuff way different when fresh?

― Abbott, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:49 (seventeen years ago)

yes, softer. Less likely to pull out your fillings.

― saudade, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 00:35 (seventeen years ago)

this stuff is crazy proust stylee for me too.

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 02:32 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

i'm happy with these results

― get bent, Thursday, 1 May 2008 00:57 (seventeen years ago)

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