BonomosTurkish Taffy - Vanilla 24ct.

The last place I bought a Bonomo's Turkish Taffy bar was at a 7-11 convenience store in Orlando, FL. It was 1974 and I was 14 years old. Devastating, I know!As a military brat, service member and spouse, I have looked for genuine Turkish Taffy in nearly every corner of the earth only to discover that the recipe had been sold and then shelved without a single batch being made. I've made several attempts along the way to find something similar but all fell way short of satisfying. Plain salt-water taffy was okay but it was always too soft and airy. Then there was Doscher's French Chew taffy bar that purportedly is as close to Turkish Taffy as it gets. All I can say is, "ICK!"Now, before we get to the bottom line here you need to know that unlike so many others folks, cracking a Bonomo's was not necessarily an option in FL unless you took it home and stuck it in the fridge for a while (longer than the recommended five minutes). I suppose that might work if you lived next door to the 7-11 but who could wait that long? So, before leaving the store, I would already be peeling back the wrapper on my taffy bar and sinking my teeth in only to find that my teeth would be locked shut in the thick gooey taffy. Mmmm - Heaven!Back in the present, I finally received my box of Bonomo's Vanilla Taffy today - the ONLY flavor worth sinking my teeth into. Unfortunately, there was no way I'd be able to do so. Living in the Blue Ridge Mountains in NC, my taffy had apparently been sitting on a truck stuck in the snow for several days before they finally were able to make it up to our house. To my great disappointment the first bar out of the box was already cracked. I had no choice but to rip open the wrapper like the 14 year old I wish I still were and slip the very first cracked piece ever into my mouth with much anticipation.I was not disappointed!It's funny how the taste of certain foods remain with you, no matter how long it's been since you last had them. Like the original Liege Belgian waffles we used to get in the market a few blocks from our home in Brussels when I was eight years old. I returned to Brussels and that market several times in the late nineties and sure enough - those waffles were just as sweet, sticky with syrup from the partially dissolved "perle" sugar.And so it is with the new Bonomo's vanilla flavored Turkish Taffy. Thirty six years later and still, unmistakably genuine Bonomo's Turkish Taffy. Now to find a way to soften it just enough to get my teeth stuck in it again.I am now contemplating whether I should buy several cases of this stuff - enough to last 36 years perhaps. You know, just in case they stop making it again.

Buyers beware! This is not the same Turkish taffy that was available 5 years ago. The texture is different. It’s full of air so the taste is different and it doesn’t crack like the original did. I have bought Turkish taffy for the past 20 years but not in the past 3-4. It’s terrible now! Even when you freeze these current bars they don’t crack right and you end up getting tiny pieces of this stuff all over the place. I’m so sorry I trusted this company since I was a kid and bought a case of Vanilla. I ended up throwing away 18 of the bars. I tried calling the taffy company on the phone number listed on their site at least 10 times but they NEVER answer their phone. I just wanted to know if the recipes for all their flavors also changed.Taffy dudes, look what happened to “Snaps” at American Licorice when they changed to a different receipe,The SNAPS candy is no longer made for retail. You owe me an email!!Jeff

Bonomo Vanilla Turkish Taffy is my favorite candy and it is the candy I had as a child. I have ordered many boxes and didn't understand the bad reviews until I got a bad box. By bad, I mean old. I couldn't eat it.If you look under the seam of the individual bars, there is a best by date. Believe it! The box I have now has "BB DEC 2018" and "2617A" underneath it. This box is best by Dec 2018. Maybe another month after that, but the taste and texture go downhill pretty quickly after that. So, if you got some taffy that tastes bad, check that date. It's not on the cardboard box, but should be.This is the candy that I remember from my childhood and I was so happy to find it here.

It is always fun to experience nostalgia and that is what happens whenever I eat one of these bars. I searched for them for years, they were a favorite of my mothers in the fifties and mine also. I found out they stopped being made in 1981. What a letdown. Then I discovered them in a catalog that deals in nostalgia. I don't know when they started making them again.Of course, I checked on line and found them much cheaper at Amazon. The price is right and the candy great. You smack the bar on a counter to crack it up to eat. It comes in other flavors, too. Only problem for me is that I would prefer to buy a box of assorted flavors instead of one box of 24 of one flavor, but since it's vanilla it's okay for now.

The Vanilla Bonomo Turkish Taffy I purchased was exactly like the 6 cent Bonomo Vanilla Taffy I bought on many Saturday afternoons at the movies when I was a child. The taffy lasted through the Buck Rogers serial, all the coming attractions and even past the main feature. It kept me so occupied that the matron, in her starched white uniform, who patrolled our closely guared children's section of the theater, never had to reprimand me for disorderly conduct. Hooray for Amazon for recreating a source to a favorite childhood treat.N.B. Only the rich kids could afford the 12 cent Bon Bons; they were not as good nor did they last as long as Bonomo's Turkish Taffy.

I grew up with this taffy. I like the taffy. I bought a whole box of it. That said, sadly the recipe has been changed, it is more brittle and something else I have not been able to decern. I know the company went though quite a bit of turmoil and was closed and sold as such. I am glad the company is making it again. You asked.

Nowhere near what Turkish Taffy was when I was growing up. The bars are yellowish and look old and are stuck to the cardboard backing like they melted and then re-hardened. And since they are not returnable a complete waste of money. 24 bars in the garbage!