Taffy

“When I was working on *The Truth About Dr. True*, *Salt Water Taffy v3*, Jack and Benny kept wanting to go on side trips, and I realized they would make great comic strip characters,” said Loux. “The* Salt Water Taffy* website creates a place for me to tell more of their adventures in a new format.”

Salt Water Taffy Website Launched | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

"Taffy" - a name for a person of Welsh origin, associated with coal-mining and backwardness

Resist racism 2009

I started to call Taffy, stopped with her number half dialed.

Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

'Somebody called Taffy — said it's very important.'

Civvies La Plante, Lynda 1992

Her Taffy is a beautiful buff and white Angora, which has been very much admired.

Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow

At the end of Tuck's Court was a house at which was employed a Welsh groom, a queer fellow who soon attracted the notice of Simpson Rackham's clerks, young gentlemen who were bent on "mis-spending the time which was not legally their own." {27b} They would make audible remarks about the unfortunate and inoffensive Welsh groom, calling out after him "Taffy" -- in short, rendering the poor fellow's life a misery with their jibes, until at last, almost distracted, he had come to the determination either to give his master notice or to hang himself, that he might get away from that "nest of parcupines."

The Life of George Borrow Jenkins, Herbert 1912

In this dilemma Taffy had nothing for it but to break off the branches near him, and he contrived to pelt these so dexterously at the head of his assailant, that he fairly kept him at bay till his cries at length reached the ears of his companions, and their approach compelled the banditti-captain once more to seek safety among the mountains.

Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845

A minority comment was that of Rod Richards, a former Royal Marine and former Conservative Foreign Office minister, who claimed: "I am a Welshman and it was quite common for people like me to be called Taffy … the use of the word Paki doesn't surprise me but in a military context it is not derogatory."

The American Spectator 2009

What about words like 'Taffy', 'Paddy' or the like ?

Cameron was Right to Sack Patrick Mercer 2007

"Taffy," who signs himself "proud to be a sort of greyish pinky color with bloches" sic recommends a strategy of both blaming the victim and suppressing race, an issue which "isn't important" and shouldn't be mentioned because doing so gets in "somebody's face."

The Boundaries of Diversity 2005