So, what's the deal? I was just at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk, and the only cotton candy available was prepackaged and hanging from the wall of some snack booth or other. Have deep-fried twinkies really eclipsed cotton candy in terms of popularity? This is just wrong.

I remember when the cotton candy booth had some apple-cheeked young person spinning clouds of pink candy on paper cones before your eyes. Now you're lucky if you can spot the little pink or blue bags hanging in the back of the booth like so many feather dusters.

Sigh.