Cotton candy sounded alarmingly literal to young Libby in Fort Worth, Texas. If it was made of actual cotton fiber, she figured some people might be able to digest it, but she wasn’t one of them, so she stayed away. The mix-up belongs with other childhood misunderstandings, like imagining a cat burglar coming to steal the family cat. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “A Childhood Fear That “Cotton Candy” Contained Cotton”
On an earlier show, we were talking about childhood misunderstandings.
Like when you’re little and you think a cat burglar is going to come steal your cat, that kind of thing.
We got a lot of responses from folks on that.
Libby in Fort Worth, Texas, called us to say that when she was a child, she would never eat cotton candy because she thought it was made out of cotton.
And she thought, well, there must be some people who can eat cotton candy and digest it, but I can’t, so she never ate cotton candy.
Still doesn’t to this day.
Poor thing. She’s missing out.
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