A blog series, in which OC staff procures the wackiest, most buzzed about junk-slash-fad food on the global market, then conducts highly professional taste tests.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Salty Road Salty Caramel Apple Pie Salt Water Taffy
Price: $6.50 at Salty Road
Quantity: 14 pieces, 3.5 ounces
Origin: Brooklyn, New York
Color: Butter Yellow
Smell: Caramel by the Sea
Considering a McDonald's Baked Hot Apple Pie packs about 250 CALORIES (and you're always ordering two, amirite?)—we were curious about a lesser evil, Salty Road's Salty Caramel Apple salt water taffy. In a nutshell: "It's freakin' amazing." Inspired by Four & Twenty Blackbirds' Salted Caramel Apple Pie (which OC friend Alex Wang first turned us onto), Salty Road consulted its baker pals to pin this taffy down, describing its tribute flavor like "fresh spiced apple pie with creamy caramel and flaky sea salt."
Remember when Violet Beauregarde gets hold of Willy Wonka's gum and it's the dessert, the blueberry pie, that does her in? She couldn't stop chewing 'cause it's a dream. That's how we felt. "It tastes like PIE," one reviewer said, while others pinpointed "creamy, fresh-milk notes," "with cinnamon spice," or a "piquant aftertaste" "spiked with little sea salt crunchies," "like a buttery crust." "I liked this more than most real apple pies at Thanksgiving." Also, the "sticky factor was pretty low." One taster, though, not sure what was wrong with her tongue this particular day, wrote that "a taffy texture with a salty kick feels like when you pull a cough drop out of your purse and realize it's covered in crumbs and eyeshadow."
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Photo by Jessica Chou
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Salty Road Salty Caramel Apple Pie Salt Water Taffy
Price: $6.50 at Salty Road
Quantity: 14 pieces, 3.5 ounces
Origin: Brooklyn, New York
Color: Butter Yellow
Smell: Caramel by the Sea
Considering a McDonald's Baked Hot Apple Pie packs about 250 CALORIES (and you're always ordering two, amirite?)—we were curious about a lesser evil, Salty Road's Salty Caramel Apple salt water taffy. In a nutshell: "It's freakin' amazing." Inspired by Four & Twenty Blackbirds' Salted Caramel Apple Pie (which OC friend Alex Wang first turned us onto), Salty Road consulted its baker pals to pin this taffy down, describing its tribute flavor like "fresh spiced apple pie with creamy caramel and flaky sea salt."
Remember when Violet Beauregarde gets hold of Willy Wonka's gum and it's the dessert, the blueberry pie, that does her in? She couldn't stop chewing 'cause it's a dream. That's how we felt. "It tastes like PIE," one reviewer said, while others pinpointed "creamy, fresh-milk notes," "with cinnamon spice," or a "piquant aftertaste" "spiked with little sea salt crunchies," "like a buttery crust." "I liked this more than most real apple pies at Thanksgiving." Also, the "sticky factor was pretty low." One taster, though, not sure what was wrong with her tongue this particular day, wrote that "a taffy texture with a salty kick feels like when you pull a cough drop out of your purse and realize it's covered in crumbs and eyeshadow."
Photo by Jessica Chou