Tempting Taffy

My dad brought home a bag of saltwater taffy today and not shortly after the bag of ooey , sticky , wax paper swaddled dollops of goodness reached my hands I realized that I had eaten all of the blue raspberry ones. My mother and I just finished watching a doctors show on television talking about how America's children where getting too much sugar in their diets when my dad walked in with a bag of sugary delights, we then just laughed at the irony and tore open the bag to commence the nibbling. I got to thinking about the name of the candy and after looking it up I noticed there where many stories about the origin. I read them all but I don't think anyone really knows where it originated from exactly. I do know however that there is absolutely no coastal salt water in the taffy itself and that it originated in Atlantic City,New Jersey around the late 19Th century. It was commonly sold on boardwalks near Atlantic City and Island Ocean City so perhaps that is were the whole saltwater thing came from. For me it seems as if so many interesting things came from New Jersey and Pennsylvania and my fascination with these areas only grows more and more since my husband and his family are from that area. I only hope one day I can explore it myself , oh the things I would blog. I must now leave you with that final word, because I have to go finish off the green taffy and then the orange and then the ......... hmmmm I am just glad I ran this morning!