Aiyana Moore

Ethan Snider knows good pickles.

For more than a century, stockings have been stuffed with Doscher’s French Chew. The sticky taffy bar was created by Claus Doscher, a German immigrant, in the early 1900s and remained almost entirely unchanged until 2009. That’s when Doscher’s introduced the French Chew Minis, a bite-sized version of the taffy.