Bonomo’s Turkish Taffy – CommercialClack

Tara: Oh. My. The little girl in me is so excited right now! I’ve searched high and low for this candy!

Michael: Believe it or don’t, I’ve never heard of Bonomo’s Turkish Taffy. I didn’t know it existed, I didn’t know it had gone away and I didn’t know it reappeared until you began going on and on about over the last few weeks. Is this stuff a Michigan thing? Why have I never heard of it?

Tara: I’m not sure if that’s the case, but this stuff was the main staple of my diet when I was a kid. Vanilla and strawberry were the best. This taffy is so hard you have to crack it against something heavy. In our case, it was a ledge above the basement stairs. And it lasted … forever! Part of the fun was trying to get it to crack into edible sized pieces. Huh. Do you think that’s why I have all these silver fillings?

Tara: See? You had to crack it by slamming it on a hard surface. One bar would last half a movie. And seriously? Whether you chose chocolate, vanilla, banana or strawberry? It didn’t matter. They all had the best overwhelming flavor. You wanted to only eat it in the movies, mostly. As you couldn’t talk to anyone while you were attempting to jaw on your cracked piece. It was an all inclusive kind of candy, where you just had to take in the experience. Know what I mean?

Michael: Yes, I do. It used to be about the only time I ate Goobers, exclusively in a movie theater. Come to think of it, I can’t tell you the last time I had Goobers.

Now … “banana” … just doesn’t sound good as a taffy flavor. But that could just be me.

Tara: Ah … the king size bar. I recommend these only for The Drive In. When you were in for the long haul. You went to drive-ins, didn’t you Michael? (For you kids out there, the drive-in was a movie theater outside, where you parked your car, attached a speaker to the window and were good to go!)

Michael: Of course I went to drive-ins … plenty of them. It was the go-to theater of choice for the double (and sometimes triple) feature.

Now, see? I was doing just fine. I was happily perusing these old commercials in an effort to come up to speed on one of your favorite candies — Bonomo’s Turkish Taffy — when fear struck my heart: The Magic Clown … !!! Did you do that on purpose?!? That thing creeps me out! I know The Magic Clown was a vehicle and an attractant to sell Turkish Taffy, but that eerie thing would have made me turn tail and run.

Tara: It always comes back to clowns with you, doesn’t it? Actually, this clown and his tv show were way before my time, so I can’t comment except to say how very weird you are.

Michael: Me? I’m fine as frog’s hair. That clown, on the other hand … he’s the weird one.

Here’s the deal (because there’s always “a deal”): I’m more than willing to give Bonomo Turkish Taffy a whirl, but I’m going to have to psych myself up and get the image of Bozo’s nose out of my mind before I do. Otherwise, the experience will leave me less than enthused. And no banana, either. Because, you know, clowns have the tendency to have bananas (banana peels, actually) in their bag of tricks.

Tara: The banana was actually good. And if you want to try it? It’s available through The Vermont Country Store. I recommend ordering their catalog to anyone who likes to wax nostalgic. They have tons of hard to get stuff from “the last century.” Like Fuller Brushes and “Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific.”

It’s an extremely cool store.

Michael: That very well may be. Still, I’m passing on the banana flavor. The “Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific” however …

Clacked by Tara Shrodes
on May 25, 2012 @ 20:23 EST5EDT