Saltwater taffy is a bit of a misnomer in that salt water isn't an ingredient. Taffy is just sugar, corn starch (for a smooth texture), corn syrup and butter (as interfering agents to keep the ...

If you’ve ever strolled along a boardwalk by the beach, you know the joy of unwrapping a piece of soft, chewy salt water ...

Homemade Salt Water Taffy is not only a fun and delicious activity it can also be a chemistry lesson: The Effect of Temperature and Torsion on a Saccharide. The first time I made salt water taffy ...

Narrator] No other candy has made sweet memories at the beach like salt water taffy. (upbeat music) (people talking indistinctly) - My grandparents started it in 1963, I probably started working ...

I'm UK born but have lived for ~11 years in the US. Every time someone writes or mentioned saltwater taffy I didn't know what they were talking about, it seems so strange (like, does it actually ...

During that year, a candy store on the city’s boardwalk flooded, and seawater soaked all of the shop’s taffy. Afterward, the shop owner joked that he had a new candy to sell: “salt water ...

Yes, salt water taffy is a South Jersey thing. Fans of “Jeopardy!” saw the topic pop up in Tuesday’s episode as a clue in a Jersey-themed category. The clue leaned on the boardwalk staple's ...

Mastoras. That high-profile patent dispute over rival improvements to salt water taffy pullers—the multiarmed machines that aerate the candy and give it its signature chew—shows just how ...

The Slack family opened the candy store and began handmaking gourmet salt water taffy in 1935. In 2014, Lavona Slack retired and sold the shop to the Igels, according to the store’s website.