Why Do We Celebrate National Taffy Day?

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

Eric Hoffer

National Taffy Day Activities

1. See it get made

   Watching taffy being made is not to be missed! Most taffy factories offer guided tours so that you can see how taffy is heated in huge copper kettles, and then slowly cooled by hand on cold marble slabs and then put on a machine that now does the pulling.

2. Indulge in a taffy binge

   Gorging on candy for National Taffy Day might not seem like the best advice, but then again it is the custom for other holidays (not naming any names)… so having a few taffies is a great way to celebrate!

3. Make your own

   The best way to celebrate National Taffy Day is to actually make your own! Not only is this a fun activity, but it also means that you will have a good supply of taffy to give out to your friends and family. Look up a recipe on the web and get cooking (and pulling.)

Why We Love National Taffy Day

1. We love to watch it get made

   Not only is taffy a delicious candy, enjoyed by all ages, but making it is also a real upper body workout! Nowadays taffy is made by machines, but in the past, or if you are making it at home, you use the ‘taffy pull’ to add air to the taffy mixture. This is what gives taffy its distinctive texture.

2. It makes us nostalgic

   We love that tasting taffy takes most Americans back to childhood memories of blissful summers by the sea. As taffy is traditionally sold at boardwalks, it has been a staple of American seaside resort towns for over one hundred years.

3. The flavors are endless

   Taffy has survived the test of time because of its unique texture, which comes in almost every flavor imaginable; from vanilla, maple, mint and watermelon, to raspberry, banana and licorice… or anything else you can think of!

On May 23, we celebrate our favorite sweet and chewy treat on National Taffy Day. Taffy has a long history as one of America’s native sweets. Common lore has it that in the 1880s, a Jersey Shore candy shop got flooded, soaking the shop’s taffy stock with Atlantic salt water. On a lark, the owner sold the candy as “saltwater taffy” and an American delicacy was born! Today it’s sold on boardwalks up and down the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. and has even found its way to landlocked candyshops. National Taffy Day is a day to indulge in the sweet pastime of unwrapping that twisty wax paper and popping a chewy bit of taffy into your mouth. Yum!

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Celebration Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month May 2021

May is Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month. Across the world, thousands of volunteers will come together to raise awareness about this devastating disease and tell our story of hope and progress.

You can join them. Take time this month to share your CF story and encourage people in your community to join the search for a cure.

Consider these facts:

• Approximately 30,000 children and adults in the United States have CF.
• More than 10 million Americans are symptomless carriers of the defective CF gene.
• CF used to be considered exclusively a childhood disease. Thanks to advancements in CF research and care, people with the disease are living into their 30s, 40s and beyond.
• The life expectancy for someone with CF has doubled in the last 30 years, but people still lose their lives to this devastating disease every day.
• The CF Foundation will not rest until we find a cure for all people with cystic fibrosis.

What you can do:

As someone who is interested in advocating on behalf of people with cystic fibrosis, you have a powerful voice. Here’s what you can do to help support the CF community.

• Check out the official “CF Awareness Toolkit” to get tips, tools, and language that you can use to help spread the word.

Learn more about:

• Participating in Great Strides;
• Becoming an advocate and contacting members of Congress on behalf of people with CF; and
• Talking about CF in your social networks, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Take some time this month to educate someone about CF or encourage people in your community to get involved. It only takes a few minutes to make a difference.

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National Strawberry Month timeline

1750s

A new strawberry type

The garden strawberry is created in Brittany, France by crossing the Fragaria virginiana, a strawberry from eastern North America, with the Fragaria chiloensis — from the Pacific.

1714

Bigger and better

Amédée François Frézier, a French explorer and engineer, introduced France to the Fragaria chiloensis — a larger, New World strawberry — after discovering it in Chile.

1600s

They’re discovered in the Americas

English settlers who landed in landed in Jamestown, Virginia, discovered an abundance of wild strawberries.

Fresh strawberries. They’re one of the most popular and refreshing treats anywhere. Healthy too! And perfect for everything from cheesecake to mojitos to jam. May is National Strawberry Month, so get out your cookbooks. Strawberries and spring go together perfectly, so May is the right time to celebrate. And since their peak picking season starts in April, there will be plenty of juicy blooms.

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