Cleverly disguised as something truly enjoyable and delicious, the ingredients are nothing more than sugar, artificial flavor, citric acid, color, and glycerin. Simple, teeth rotting, and deadly.
The biggest falsehood that cotton candy dishes out on paper tubes is the "various flavors". In reality, there is only one flavor: sweet. The colors trick your already overloaded brain into thinking that you're getting something different. The question, "whats better, red or blue?" should never even come to mind, but it does because we connect differences in appearances with difference in flavor. I assure you, to a cannibal, European travelers and their own dark skinned neighbors taste the same. The cannibals never asked "what's better, light or dark?" They didn't have to, they weren't being fooled.Cotton candy instantly vanishes on your tongue, making you feel as though you need more. However, the more you put into your mouth, the more saliva appears, and the faster the fluff disappears. It's the best selling magic trick of all time, and no one even knows its a trick. And yet we do acknowledge it as "magical" by the brand names and signs above the cotton candy carts at the fair.
How are we so fooled? Our rational thought should be rebelling at this insanity.
Enjoyment of something that doesn't last more than 3 nanoseconds, comes deceitfully in only one flavor, and gives you cavities and other health problems? There is no logic.
I have a love/hate relationship with cotton candy. I love to eat it, while hating it, and hating to love it is almost as confusing as parents giving their children pure spun sugar to "keep them quiet".
Some people take their cotton candy all too seriously. For example, here's a video of cotton candy as an art form: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYsT5TiJsIU
As a final point, Cotton Candy is delicious, and I've made myself crave it.
cool story :)
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