Before I left Tennessee, I got a box of taffy. The box brought back all kinds of memories of watching the taffy-stretching machine in the window at Gatlinburg. And it would make the perfect gift for all my co-workers.
I left the box in the workroom yesterday. I went in several times to eat taffy. Mmm… One of the times I went in, I found a purple taffy. Was it grape? I LOVE grape! I bit into it; it wasn’t grape. It was… clove? It tasted just like cloves. Weird. But I liked it.
Huh. If you google “purple taffy”, you’re on the first page. Add “Tennessee” and you’re number one!
I’ve never cared for taffy, except for Tangy Taffy. It’s my candy of choice when I stop by the Dollar Store when walking home. It’s like getting a candy and a drink since it’s so sour.
That last one is purple? I’m sorry, but it looks like duck poo.
Sorry – I was naming them from right to left so I could do the ellipse for literary effect.
“Chocolate, orange, and …clove?” seemed more effective than “Clove?, orange, and chocolate”
You could have stated r-l, but I’m glad you didn’t. I don’t get to say duck poo often enough. Thanks! 🙂
Duck poo…HA! (I didn’t want to say anything)
So did they still have the taffy stretching machine…those are so cool! There’s an old-fashioned, homemade candy store in Annapolis that I’ve become addicted to. Not good.
My favorite taffy is chocolate & orange. And I’m pretty sure that the purple in taffy around here is grape. At the Wockenfuss up by me, they have barrels of all the individual flavored taffies & you can buy as little as one piece and of course you can fill a bag with whatever flavors you want.
Clearly none of you have had sufficient dental work yet in your young lives to need to think twice yet before reaching into a box of taffy. During upper school testing break today our student teacher had a bag of candy for the students in the room – including Laffy Taffy, etc. I didn’t even go near it. It would have spelled “certain disaster” (or “sudden dental repair bill”) for me if I had, I’m sure.
[Say…now I know why so many students were wiped out by the last class today: it wasn’t brain strain from the morning of PSATs – it was the “finally coming down from sugar highs all morning” part.]