Taffy Apples Halloween!

I mean Happy Halloween! Here’s a 1973 recipe card for Taffy Apples. And Bob’s your uncle. I mean Happy Apple Bobbing! I mean Affy Tapple… oh, we’re all mixed up over here.

Taffy Apples 1973 McCall's Great American Recipe Card Collection 24n

…and yes, I know we don’t use Taffy Apples for Apple Bobbing. But that recipe is boring (Bucket of water, add apples). So here is the back of the recipe card for Taffy Apples:

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Homemade Found Recipe: Walnut Bourbon Balls

Handwritten found recipe for Walnut Bourbon Balls written on vintage Union Pacific stationery

Found recipe for Walnut Bourbon Balls

2.5 cups finely crushed vanilla wafers

1 cup powdered sugar

2 tablespoons cocoa

1 cup finely crushed walnuts or walnuts and coconut

3 tablespoons corn syrup

.25 cup bourbon

Mix first four ingredients well. Add syrup bourbon mix well.

Roll into balls.

End. No page two. No further info. No additional recipes on Union Pacific stationery. Enjoy!

Underneath The Chocolate Fountain

Ovente SBL-811 Chocolate Fondue Fountain

Behold!

This rare shot of the elusive chocolate fountain shows the creature in all its naked glory. This fine specimen is called the Ovente SBL-811 Chocolate Fondue Fountain and can hold up to 2 pounds of chocolate — which is certainly more visually appealing than the raw, naked beast you see before you now.

Rarely seen in this state out of its natural environment of the all-you-can-eat restaurant, this magnificent creature can now be yours to have in your very own home — just don’t forget to feed it.

Zipzicle Figures It Out: Neoprene Ice Pop Holder

Zipzicle Neoprene Ice Pop Holder

Somebody finally figured it out: ice is cold. While this is a good thing for making tasty treats on a hot summer day, actually holding the ice treat is a pain. A cold, numbing pain. Now, our fingers can be saved from the torture that is such pleasure for our mouths.

Zipzicle, makers of convenient, but necessarily revolutionary zip baggies to make freezer pops, have created the Zipzicle Neoprene Ice Pop Holder. Specially designed to fit their zip top bags, the ice pop holder makes it easy to make and eat delicious ice pop. This round of ice pops clearly goes to Zipzicles.



Twinkies Tell The Truth

Twinkies: "The Sweetest Comeback In The History Of Ever"

Twinkies are back and this time they mean it. It is being reported that the iconic snack cake will have a shelf life of 45 days. Hostess Brands recently went through reorganization and it appeared that the fabled snack was in trouble. But you can’t keep a good sponge cake down. Or let it expire.

Somehow, without changing much (or any) of the 37 ingredients that go into a Twinkie, the shelf life has been increased from 26 days to 45 days. The new Hostess company says they still won’t last forever, but… yeah, right.

To participate in “The Sweetest Comeback In The History Of Ever” just visit your local grocery store. Twinkies are set to reappear on July 15th.