Your birth year
2006
Laffy Taffy
19711970s
Laffy Taffy is 35 years older than you
It's from 1971, before you were born.
- Maker
- Ferrara Candy Company
- Type
- Taffy candy
- Debuted
- 1971
- Note
- jokes printed on the wrapper
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About
As of 2026, it's 55 years old.
Laffy Taffy understood that the candy is only half the experience; the other half is the truly terrible joke printed on the wrapper. Banana, cherry, green apple — the stretchy taffy is good, but the groan-worthy pun ('Why did the banana go to the doctor? It wasn't peeling well') is the real product.
Around since the early 1970s, it's the candy that turns every snack into a tiny, mandatory open-mic night.
Sweet, chewy, famously sticky, and relentlessly corny, Laffy Taffy is the only candy that comes with material.
Laffy Taffy through the years
1971
1971
Introduced
Stretchy fruit taffy in bold flavors.
1980
1980
Jokes on every wrapper
Corny kid-submitted jokes become part of the fun.
You were born — 2006
