Chocolate Fudge
1/2 pound box, 6 1/2" x 3" x 1"
Massachusetts

Fudge, the great American summertime icon, right up there with salt-water taffy. Murdick's hails from Mackinac Island where it originated in 1887. The story goes that Mr. Murdick was a fisherman on the Great Lakes and between May and September if the weather forecast in the Farmer's Almanac was good he would come in and open up his fudge stand; if the weather forecast was bad he would stay out fishing on the Lake. In the 1970's Bob Benser, who first worked for the Murdick family at what was then a small operation and later bought the business from them, was approached by a friend to open up a fudge shop on the Vineyard. Since then they have been producing fudge as well as peanut brittle. It was hard to choose a flavor but chocolate seemed the most appropriate. Take a bite into history today.