# WTF is the deal with touristy spots and fudge?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [June 19, 2023, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-the-deal-with-touristy-spots-and-fudge/985759 "2023-06-19T04:34:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-the-deal-with-touristy-spots-and-fudge/985759/44 "2023-06-20T03:20:34Z")

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> [@solost](#):
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> There’s also a performative aspect to it that goes well with touristy areas. In the fudge shops we’ve been in when the kids were young, most shops have big granite tables in clear view where the fudge makers spread out the hot fudge goop and fold it over and over with big spatula thingies until it hardens into a slab that they then cut into small blocks.

This is (or used to be) called “loafing” the fudge. I still remember my first childhood trip to a fudge shop where the candymaker demonstrated this process and remarked of her co-worker, who was taking care of packaging and selling the end product, “So you see, she works all day and I just loaf.”

I thought that was the.  
Funniest.  
Thing.  
Ever.

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