Is salt water taffy made with salt water?
Right off the top – salt water taffy is not made from salt water. You do need some salt and some water to make a batch of taffy, however. But the name “salt water taffy” doesn’t come from the ingredients either. No one knows where the name “salt water taffy” came from. The most popular story of origin involves a shopkeeper on the Atlantic City Boardwalk named David Bradley. A tidal surge from a summer storm in 1883 swamped Bradley’s store and buried his inventory in sea water. As he was cleaning up the following day a girl walked into his store and asked for a bag of taffy.
