# Is "Fresh Salt Water Taffy" a fake?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fresh-salt-water-taffy-a-fake/835279>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 10, 2019, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fresh-salt-water-taffy-a-fake/835279 "2019-06-10T03:07:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fresh-salt-water-taffy-a-fake/835279/21 "2019-06-12T02:47:05Z")

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> [@Derleth](#):
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> And on that day, I will figure out how to strangle someone across the Internet.

You could just pay a hit man; but no, you have to do it yourself.

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fresh-salt-water-taffy-a-fake/835279/22 "2019-06-12T11:54:28Z")

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Re: taffy pulling.

When I was a kid, we once decided to do homemade taffy. We took turns pulling. It came out fine.

But emphasis on the “once”. Yet another time when being in a large family helped.

What I remember from the shops with machines in the windows at the beach when I was a kid was that they really did use the taffy off the machines. Getting a “fresh batch” was considered a plus.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fresh-salt-water-taffy-a-fake/835279/23 "2019-06-12T12:03:54Z")

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> [@zweisamkeit](#):
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> Today I learned that sugar, cornstarch, corn syrup, glycerine, water, butter and dyes and flavors apparently magically combine to become plastic. :dubious:

In fact, the difference between taffy and plastic is merely one molecule!

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fresh-salt-water-taffy-a-fake/835279/24 "2019-06-12T21:52:42Z")

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Taffy is made of margarine!

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