This Is The New Jersey Spot To Go To For Our State’s Best Dessert

Food experts have revealed the best dessert in New Jersey and even chosen the best place to try it.

We must warn you, that the best dessert chosen for New Jersey might not be what you're expecting at all.

Odd Choice For New Jersey's Best Dessert Item

When we think of great desserts in New Jersey, our minds immediately bring us to some of the great restaurants in the Garden State.

However according to this report, the top dessert in the state is not something you'd find on a menu, and it's not something most restaurants serve.

You can forget about chocolate lava cake, New York cheesecake, or apple pie. The folks at Cheapism have a different idea in mind for the best dessert in New Jersey.

It's New Jersey History But Is It Dessert?

They have chosen saltwater taffy as the best dessert in the Garden State, and while we get the historic connection, we're pretty sure most New Jersey residents aren't ordering saltwater taffy for dessert.

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We're going to overlook this choice because even though many of us think it's not dessert, we do enjoy salt water taffy and its place in New Jersey history.

And we also want to celebrate an amazing New Jersey business that the experts chose as the best place to get saltwater taffy in New Jersey.

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For the best in the state, you need to head to Ocean City and the place you're heading to for our best saltwater taffy is Shriver's.

Shriver's is the oldest business on the Ocean City Boardwalk, and they've been around in one form or another since 1898. That's amazing, and we should all put a trip to Shriver's on our New Jersey bucket list.