While on their way to see America's most popular circus, Joseph and his daughter Nettie were handed a bag of peanuts by a passing clown. Almost as soon as the clown placed it in her hand, a crafty elephant snatched it right out. Joseph wrestled the peanuts from the elephant's trunk, only to find them crushed. No one knows exactly how it happened, but Nettie's taffy somehow ended up covered with peanuts. Both took a bite, and Fralinger's Peanut Butter Chews were born.