The Magic Clown was a character on NBC Television who did your usual clown tricks and gags, but it all depended on the magic word: Bonomo. Bonomos’ flavors include vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and even banana.īonomo was one of the first candies to be advertised on television and it surely wasn’t poorly marketed. When the taffy is too soft to break, a few minutes in the freezer does the trick to help the candy shatter. The bars have a unique way of being eaten.īefore opening the wrapper you can smack the candy against the table so that it breaks into bite size pieces. In the late 1940s the hammers were dropped and the bars of taffy took the field. When the candy was first distributed into Woolworth stores it came in school desk size sheets that were broken into pieces with ball-peen hammers. It was named Turkish Taffy purely for marketing reasons. Also the taffy is not any kind of Turkish secret family recipe. As delicious as Al’s saltwater taffies must have been, it was not Al, but the son of Al who introduced the masterpiece of the Turkish Taffy that we have all known and loved since we learned to say the word “taffy.”Īn interesting thing about this candy that Tico, son of Victor, pointed out is that it is not technically taffy, it would be better described as nougat because of its corn syrup and egg white ingredients.
This candy company made hard candies, but specialized in its saltwater taffy. Al emigrated to Coney Island, New York and founded the Bonomo candy company in 1897.
Once upon a time in the land of Turkey lived a man named Albert J.
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