Salt water taffy
To get your mind off the death of the republic (for a moment, anyway) and into some Fourth of July Americana fun, visit the Goldenrod in York Beach, Maine.
Do you like to watch taffy being made? It sure beats watching sausage.
This is what you can see if you walk by the window of the Goldenrod some time between Memorial Day and Labor Day:
My very favorite part is here. It has a hypnotic effect:
And if you go inside, you can eat the stuff. It’s really, really good, too. The best. If you suck on it for just a little while first to soften it a bit, you won’t even pull out your fillings or crowns when you begin the satisfying process of chomping on it.
Happy Fourth!
“Beats sausage”? What the??? One of my earliest memories as a young lad, about 60 years ago was my brother and I going to my Busia’s (Polish for grandmother) house to turn the crank on the sausage maker to help make the best home made Kielbasa. There are some stores in the old neighborhood that come close, but her’s was still the best.
Roman:
It’s all about the link (that is, the link on the word “sausage,” not the sausage link).
I remember the process from my cub scout days.
Wow.
The recent times in which I viewed salt water taffy and fudge being made it was with someone I loved.
Made the viewing that much sweeter.
Actually, sausage manufacturing doesn’t look all that bad.
Thanks for this. I remember going to organized taffy pulls as a child in Sioux Falls, SD. It was quite the rage.
I’d forgotten about it until I watched the clips, but now I remember watching this process at the Santa Monica pier in So. Cal. When I was growing up. I found it fascinating. Thanks for the memories, Neo.
We had a taffy shop in my home town, which was a summer resort in the Colorado mountains. All the manufacturing was out in plain view and was fascinating for we local-yokel kids. Mr. Lowell Slack was the proprietor. A very nice man, who would hand out samples to us from time to time. Kinda like a dope dealer getting his customers hooked on the product. He was quite successful at that. We all craved salt water taffy.
In the fall he would close up shop and move his operation to Tucson. Probably 60% of the local merchants had dual operations. Colorado in the summer, somewhere warm in Arizona for the winter. Not a bad gig.
On the 4th of July I can send our gracious host no greater gift than this link. I know you both know and love the art of dance so much, and every time I see this it just knocks me out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fktxkO37zNM
God Bless America.
rickl
Actually, sausage manufacturing doesn’t look all that bad.
It’s the making of laws that doesn’t come off well, by comparison. Those of a certain age may remember a song about sausage making: Johnny Rebeck’s Machine.
Yeah, and their carmel corn is uniquely good. Stay for lunch – try the club sandwich and a vanilla egg cream.
Though I don’t think it’s as good, Starburst is, essentially, commercialized and mass produced SW Taffy.
I love the kind of SWT that has a center of soft peanut butter !