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Yep! I'm also a child of the 80s and only remember it with fudge. I guess it's just a regional thing (and may even vary within the US, I guess, but even on television I've only heard the fudge version)
Fudge makes more sense but we just didn't know what it was back then.
That's interesting to me. Is fudge mainly a North American thing? I have a new rabithole into which to venture next time I'm on the train.
Fudge is 19th century British - there are recipies in Mrs Beeton's cookbook - mid 1800s. I suspect it was invented as the result of a failed batch of toffee. Also tablet in Scotland is pretty much fudge. Home made fudge is how I learned, so probably not a commercial product as such for a long time.
I don't know. We definitely know what it is today but back then it was not something that was marketed to us. Nougat was probably as close as it got.
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