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The hype got the best of me yesterday and I bought some at the grocery store. Obviously they look like a regular grape...but damn it if it doesn't taste EXACTLY like cotton candy. They are addicting as hell.
A little background...
Cotton Candy grapes look like the old translucent, yellow-green orbs long common to children’s lunchboxes, cheese plates and grocery-store aisles. But take a bite and you’ll experience an explosion of carnival-treat-like sweetness.
When it comes to shopping — grocery shopping, that is — they’re this season’s It item.
Merchants from fancy new FiDi food hall Le District to delivery service FreshDirect to Wegmans say customers are gobbling up the grapes, which aren’t genetically modified but are rather the product of years of cross-pollination among varieties to create uniquely sweet bunches. Even the fact that the Cotton Candy orbs cost significantly more than standard varieties — $4.99 per pound at FreshDirect (compared to $3.99) and a whopping $8.99 per pound at Le District — isn’t a deterrent.
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