'toffee' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of candy that consists of hard, sweet caramelized sugar. Example sentence: I love to eat chewy pieces of toffee on a cold autumn day.
Sticky toffee pudding or treacle tart are my favourites!
Paul Bell, a stock controller in Thorntons' toffee department, came up with the idea to celebrate the centenary and said creating it was no mean feat.
Volunteers rated the toffee eaten during low-pitched music as more bitter than that consumed during the high-pitched rendition.
In a study that will be published later this year they and their colleagues show how altering the pitch and instruments used in background music can alter the way food tastes.In this experiment, each volunteer was given four pieces of toffee.
A woman selling toffee said that people had no business frying butter, with diabetes and high cholesterol as common as they are.
Its literal translation is as 'day', but some sources suggest it derives from dyf, a mutation of the name of the city's River Taff.The nickname for a person from Cardiff—Taffy also comes from the river, (to pronounce it, think of an American from the Midwest saying "toffee").
It's very autumnal in feel – blackberries, cinnamon, toffee-ish brown sugar and hearty oats – but I can't see any reason why it can't be enjoyed now, too, on cooler days when spring slips back into drizzle and dreariness.
It is less crisp and dry than you might expect, but there is plenty to chew over in the way its upfront hop character, all grass and dry straw, falls away to reveal a surprisingly dark, almost treacle-toffee sweetness.
(The toffee-nosed Goncourts, Mr Wall explains, saw Flaubert as a gauche, loud-mouthed provincial; Flaubert in turn gave them the nickname, les bichons: the lapdogs or little darlings).Mr Wall convincingly traces Flaubert's fascination with the physiological, the grotesque and the cruel back to his early exposure to the world of hospitals, operating theatres and anatomy classes.
Yet this hard-nosed apprehension was Mr Coulson's big contribution to the rather toffee-nosed Tory operation.
They are not, necessarily, all "snobs" and "stupid, stuck-up, toffee-nosed, half-witted upper-class piles of puss" as that proprietor once described someone who dared to grumble about the service at Fawlty Towers.There are plenty of real-life Fawltys.
