Comments on: Salt water taffy

By: Molly NH

Molly NH — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 20:53:04 +0000

I love the kind of SWT that has a center of soft peanut butter !

By: IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses."

IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 09:46:05 +0000

Though I don’t think it’s as good, Starburst is, essentially, commercialized and mass produced SW Taffy.

By: KBK

KBK — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 13:51:48 +0000

Yeah, and their carmel corn is uniquely good. Stay for lunch – try the club sandwich and a vanilla egg cream.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 17:31:27 +0000

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.

By: mezzrow

mezzrow — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 16:27:06 +0000

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.

By: Jimmy J.

Jimmy J. — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 14:47:48 +0000

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.

By: Phil U.

Phil U. — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 10:49:56 +0000

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.

By: Nolanimrod

Nolanimrod — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 05:37:08 +0000

Thanks for this. I remember going to organized taffy pulls as a child in Sioux Falls, SD. It was quite the rage.

By: rickl

rickl — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 02:57:11 +0000

Actually, sausage manufacturing doesn't look all that bad.

By: vanderleun

vanderleun — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 00:24:41 +0000

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.