Sponge candy
Regional
- Meaning
- Chocolate-coated honeycomb toffee with a brittle, airy interior, a Buffalo specialty.
- Type
- Regionalism
- Used in
- Buffalo, New York, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota
What does “Sponge candy” mean
The local name for chocolate-enrobed honeycomb toffee, with a light, rigid, almost foamy interior that shatters and melts in the mouth. It is strongly identified with Western New York (especially Buffalo, where Fowler's and Watson's are institutions), and to a lesser extent Milwaukee, St. Paul, and northwestern Pennsylvania. Elsewhere the same candy goes by names like 'seafoam' or 'fairy food', but in Buffalo it is only sponge candy.
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