the.com/saltwater taffy

means A chewy, stretched sugar-and-corn-syrup candy sold in dozens of flavors, traditionally associated with boardwalk beach towns.

from The 'saltwater' part is almost certainly marketing, not chemistry — the taffy itself is made with ordinary fresh water. The popular story pins the name on a storm-flooded Atlantic City candy shop in the late 1800s, where a stock allegedly got soaked by the sea and a shopkeeper joked about selling it as 'saltwater taffy' — the name stuck even though the recipe never actually needed the ocean. 'Taffy' itself is older and murkier, likely a 19th-century American variant of 'toffee,' both words describing boiled sugar pulled and folded until it turns glossy and chewable.