Salt Water Taffy has been produced since the late 19th Century. It has become a signature of Atlantic City, New Jersey, long before the other "Jersey Shore" became synonymous with the area. Taffy is a chewy, fluffy candy which thankfully does not contain actual sea water. At last, this sweet piece of history is now available at Third Drawer Down... www.thirddrawerdown.com
Whether you're nostalgic for Atlantic City or that episode of "Sex and the City", or if you simply like beautifully packaged, mouthwatering, artificial colour-laden candy, then Salt Water Taffy may well be your new sweet fix.
I will leave you with this delicious excerpt from a society journal... I realized I needed a box one afternoon at the height of summer when I was lounging on my pale pink divan in my new Boudicca dress, fabulous, life is so fabulous, listening to Chopin with some friends and not quite delicately enough eating chocolate covered cherries one by one. What to do with the drips down the chin? Devastating! How to carefully nibble around them rather than eating whole? My lipstick? Crisis! Christ help me! My guests were mortified, as was I, you might well imagine. The next day I sent Francis out to find a solution. He came back with the only option, Shirver’s Taffy (founded in 1898!) in an oh so lovely decorated box. The green pattern matches my throw pillows and with so many colors inside, there is one to coordinate with everyone’s dresses! Even purple! Now we eat salt water taffy, cherries are such a thing of the past. Oh yawn, life is such a bother.
*Journal extract sourced from Third Drawer Down website.
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