Salt water taffy ingredients...
#70088 - 05/13/04 09:42 AM
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Sheri01
Reged: 04/19/04
Posts: 1731
Loc: New Jersey
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...as requested. And yous* probably thought I forgot! I know that a recipe was posted on how to make it, but here are my findings, straight from the Jersey Shore boardwalk:
It is pretty much choosing your own poison! The first ingredients I checked were on a box in a variety type shop, that sells everything from hats to hermit crabs, and there was egg in it! Since that and milk are my worst enemies, I kept hunting. At one of the actual specialty candy shops where they make it there thermselves, the ingredients were:
Corn Syrup, Sugar, Fructose, Partially hydrogenated coconut oil, Salt, Artificial flavor, Liquor choclate, Soya Lecithin (an emulsifier), Artificial colors yellow 5 & 6, Blue 1 & 2, Red 3 & 4.
I know that fructose and coconut oil can be bad, but I usually can sneak in fructose here and there, so I bought this kind  I have one piece after I eat a meal here and there, and I've been better than ever. Is this too risky to be chancing though?  I don't know what alot of those ingredients are! I am slowly learning that if you don't know what something is, don't eat it! It'll bite ya in the butt later! But, maybe having it once a year won't kill me!
Oh, and I found another "cheapy" brand that contained milk.
*yous= jersey speak for "you all"- took me to the fourth grade to learn that it's not really a word!
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-Sheri
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That is the one thing that I absolutly have to buy when I'm at the shore, oh and a large shaved ice. It's not officially summer in NJ to me until I've had one of the two. I did become a gluton one time with the Taffy and boy did I pay for it. I've learned to limit it to 2 pieces a day.
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Janice B 
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Eating some in small amounts you should be fine. But like with anything that is risky, beeeee careful. Whenever I'm not sure, I try things on a day when I'm not obligated to be anywhere.
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