Since my last craving for Walnettos (yes, those Walnettos), this time, when browsing the “Old Time Candy” sites, I found a miracle -
Bonomo Turkish Taffy returned!
If you don’t know what this is, get off my lawn!
Actually, it is a brittle taffy - held flat on palm and smacked against hard, flat surface - Then you open the package and find chunks and slivers.
Among the slowest dissolving taffies known.
I’m a kid again!
Go google “Bonomo Turkish Taffy” and follow the links to find some truly wonderful memories. Be the first on your block to smoke a candy cigarette or sport wax fangs!
(and some things I could have done without - including suckers with real worms, crickets, larva (species unspecified), and other grub (literally, in this case) which make chocolate-covered ants absolutely appealing.
Bonomo Turkish Taffy showed up in the checkout counter lines of my local craft supply store (of all places!) a couple of years ago, and it gave me great pleasure to introduce my teenage son to it.
The banana flavor is my favorite. It’s just so gloriously rich in that fake banana flavor. A close second in the fake banana flavor department were the yellow bubblegum cigars.
I bought my husband a case of Turkish Taffy from Vermont Country Store. He liked the banana flavor, but the chocolate was my favorite both in olden times and now. They now sell the original flavor Necco wafers; those are next on my list.
Fortunately I live in the land of Necco wafers; they are never not stocked locally. But a few years ago I noticed they’d come out with “natural” flavors and oh the irony, the natural flavors were awful. I was relieved to discover they’d abandoned that experiment and now it’s back to tasty artificial original.
For those who knew (and appreciated) the original Bonomo Turkish Taffy: is this new stuff the same as what we grew up with? If it is, look out, here I come!
Alas, I’ve been disappointed before when other long-lost treats of my youth were revived only to find that aside from the name (and things like shape and color), they were nothing like the original (e.g. Pink Elephant Popcorn and “Lolas”). Nothing more than a nostalgia rip-off.
OTHO, toast pakora, Neccos are one example where the current stuff seems exactly the same as what I rotted my teeth on almost fifty years ago!
Necco wafers taste like cardboard, and not good cardboard at that. Banana Bonomo Turkish Taffy is one of the reasons I have dentures today, and I don’t regret that a bit.
Original Necco wafers were discs of delightful subtlety, one of my favorite all-time confections. Your palate must’ve been damaged by excessive use of Pixie Stix ;).
The real issue is not “Is this new stuff the same as what we grew up with?” but “Is this new stuff as good as we remember the old stuff to be?”
I say this as someone who has sought in vain for a duplicate of a childhood treat (cake eggs from a long defunct bakery), and I’ve come to believe that they were not nearly as ambrosial as they have grown to be in my memory.
Never heard of this taffy, and I come from the time of Tecolas, Sugar Daddy, Big Hunk and Look candy bars. Well, Tecolas were actually a wax tube filled with sugar water, not a candy bar. I was never a fan of Necco Wafers, but I have a huge old candy store jar around here somewhere with the Necco logo on it.
Evidently. I’ve been posting about the return of Bonomos for years on this Board. It’s been sold in various specialty candy stores (and places like Newbury Comics in the Boston area) for a few years now.
i (61) think it’s exactly the same product, or at least a masterful re-creation. The vanilla is the best. The only disappointing “classic” flavor, to me, is the chocolate.
There are 2 “new” flavors, Wild Cherry and Black Raspberry, that are now available in supermarkets after being sold for a while only thru the Bonomo’s website.
My Wegmans a couple weeks ago had these both at half price for 50 cents a bar, and I purchased way too many.
Fillings all in place so far. I did lose a $200 crown to a Tootsie Roll Pop a couple years ago …
and now. They now sell the original flavor Necco wafers; those are next on my list.
