Candyfloss
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
(USA=Cotton Candy)
Candyfloss belongs to that small group of food items (which includes flambe) that are more interesting to watch being made than to actually eat. It is sold in locations such as funfairs and theme parks where the customers' heightened adrelin levels overcome their natural sense of logic that would prevent them paying good money for what is basically a spoonful of sugar and a stick.
It is made by putting said sugar and some fluorescent pink colouring agent into what appears to be a large, spinning metal mixing bowl. The operator then inserts a long, thin wooden stick into this bowl and moves it around the rim, to which the sugar now adheres in a spider-web like form due to the action of centrifugal force. The result has the appearance of a 1950's hairstyle and, when bitten into, instantly dissolves leaving only a pink, sticky residue around the mouth of the victim.
Candyfloss belongs to that small group of food items (which includes flambe) that are more interesting to watch being made than to actually eat. It is sold in locations such as funfairs and theme parks where the customers' heightened adrelin levels overcome their natural sense of logic that would prevent them paying good money for what is basically a spoonful of sugar and a stick.
It is made by putting said sugar and some fluorescent pink colouring agent into what appears to be a large, spinning metal mixing bowl. The operator then inserts a long, thin wooden stick into this bowl and moves it around the rim, to which the sugar now adheres in a spider-web like form due to the action of centrifugal force. The result has the appearance of a 1950's hairstyle and, when bitten into, instantly dissolves leaving only a pink, sticky residue around the mouth of the victim.
