Seniors.What is the taste of 'salt water taffy'?

No, it is not like caramel. It is not that consistency. It is sort of sweet and salty, a lot like nougat, in different colors and flavors. I like it.

True. It's mainly a brunch thing nowadays. This reminds me, I saw Jeff Ross doing stand up on tv last night. There was some line about old people dying of exhaustion trying eat salt-water taffy. :) *cries for the dead old people with mouthfuls of taffy*

Taffy is not toffee.

Taffy is made by stretching cooked sugar syrup with butter. Eventually it turns from clear to opague because of the air mixing in. You can also colour the sugar before you cook it which makes a coloured taffy.

The taffy itself is sweet with a taste of richness from the butter, and a bit of salt from the salt water start. I am trying to think of something to compare it to....maybe the closest thing you could find would be the white nougat you can sometimes get that comes with candied fruit mixed into it?

I just know salt water taffy as a child when we went to the shore. That was what we called places near the ocean. There was always a salt water taffy shop on the boardwalk and you could watch it being made in the window. It came in all kinds of flavors and was incredibly sweet. If you weren't careful,it would pull out a loose tooth. There's really no way to describe what it tastes like,but it's completely different from toffee.I'd love to have a piece right now,but I know it would just stick to my dentures. Thanks for the memory.

Salt water taffy is basically sugar and corn syrup (cornstarch and salt too), boiled up to certain temperature, cooled until it is cool enough to handle, and then pulled and stretched repeatedly as it cools further.

It takes .. like sugar. So different flavorings are added. It has the consistency of a harder caramel, perhaps, but turns into the consistency of sticky chewing gum, then softens and more or less melts away. Not like toffee, which is hard.

It is comparable to a very soft nougat. It comes in flavored pastel colors - chocolate too. It is not at all like Toffee. Love Toffee too.

It's quite tasty and best when it's fresh. It is cut and wrapped in waxy paper - with twists on each end.

When I was a kid - we had Taffy Pull parties.

We would cook it and then it took two people to pull it. We would pull it/stretch it out - fold it over and repeat the action.

I doubt that it had salt water in it - ever. Maybe a pinch of salt.

When we made it - we didn't have access to salt water.

DeeJay.

It is soft, chewy and almost sickeningly sweet. It comes in many flavors, but I always thought the name "salt water taffy" came from the east coast of the U.S. Atlantic City was famous for its salt water taffy. It takes good strong teeth to eat it. It was a custom in the late 1800s, early 1900s for children to have a taffy-pulling party, as long as mother was willing to actually cook the candy. Around Halloween, stores start selling Black Jacks, which are a licorice flavored taffy and are delicious.

Cedar Point is Sandusky Ohio has the best Salt Water Taffy ever. If you wear dentures or braces it is not a good idea to eat this crewy goodness.

Here is a recipe:

www.food.com/recipe/saltwater-taffy-15305

It originated in Utah, near the Great Salt Lakes, but the name does not reflect the taste; it's pretty much the same recipe as any other taffy; it's sweet & chewy & comes in a multitude of flavors. Ever eat 'Laffy Taffy'? Same thing, really.

Never even heard of Salt water Taffy.

But Taffy is to Wales , what Jock is to Scotland and Paddy is to Ireland.

I am not too sure what name they use for the English, it could be Llmey, maybe some English person can tell you.

I am not being nasty those are names the UK soldiers use for each other.

Over the years it was the favorite gift to bring back from a visit to the shore. Some shops show it being made with stretching machines that keep folding the sugary, gummy substance before being cut into bite size pieces. Each is then wrapped with a twist of the waxy paper at each end. The color is coordinated with the flavor and I could eat them all at one time. Watch out for them pulling out filling in teeth though.