Travelers Culinary Adventure- Estes Sweet Shoppe, Time Traveled by Taffy

Sweet taffy stretches, Mountains rise beyond the glass – we are kids again.

There’s something transporting about a sweet shop — and The Taffy Shoppe captures that magic perfectly. From the moment you look through the window, one sees the rhythmic pull of taffy and can smell the faint scent of sugar warming in the air. It’s as though time slows and folds.

I picked up a three boxes to share, but it might as well have been a time capsule — anise, vanilla, and chocolate taffy, each piece unwrapping a memory. The anise, with its hint of licorice, tasted like something remembered; the vanilla, simple and true; and the chocolate — smooth, familiar, impossible not to smile over.

A place like The Taffy Shoppe doesn’t just sell candy; it offers something rarer — a return to delight, to a time when joy came in simple, chewy pieces wrapped in wax paper.