I’ve tried them. I think it’s more like an aftertaste hint of spun sugar, after tasting like just a sweet grape. They’re OK but I probably won’t bother buying them again.
I’ve seen a limited number of the Moondrops, which I’ve tried before and liked. I certainly haven’t seen them in quantities like I saw the last two summers. I wonder if either demand wasn’t very high or if there was problem with the crop.
I wonder if someone set out to make a grape that tasted like cotton candy and did selective breeding to make it happen or a random mutation created it and breeders took advantage. If it was the former, that seems so random. What would make someone make the connection between the two flavors? Let alone work hard to create it?
You sure as hell don’t want to taste them after.
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I’ve read that it was a random discovery. Since they’ve come up with more than one rather odd variety, I’m guessing that they may be using mutation breeding and then looking for interesting marketable traits.
Yep. A coworker brought them in from Sprouts market last Spring. He said they sell out within a week every year and he felt lucky to get his hands on some. I thought it was very different and quite delicious. However, since eating lots of cotton candy seems to make my teeth hurt, I didn’t feel the desire to acquire my own bunch of those things.
Cotton candy machines and supplies can be gotten at concession supply businesses (Is Marsh still in San Diego? Is Lapidus still somewhere in Los Angeles?) party supply rental businesses, and business-oriented restaurant supply places (Smart&Final Iris, but not Costco or Sur Le Table). I’ve seen the candy and smaller machines at Walmart, as well (alongside the minature Popcorn vending cart).
Someone at work brought in some tomatoes shaped like long thin tiny red teardrops. He joked that the pear (shaped) tomatoes and BB tomatoes were so popular that someone tried to breed a Jalapeno tomato…
I tried two anyway, and they were the most flavorful things I’ve ever eaten! It gave a burst of tomato flavor, like a lightly grilled cherry tomato, but sweeter. I’ve never seen them in stores at all.
—G!
I always took it as a metaphor for the satisfactory sweetness and juiciness of the product. Cotton candy is pure sugar. So grapes taste better, obviously.
I thought the product name was a guarantee it would be sweet and not be disappointing. And that there was a local connection so that that kind of product control could happen.
I’ll keep dreaming.
I’m want to see (and eat) grapes that taste like juicy meaty ribs marinated in BBQ sauce.
Or bacon.
What does it even mean to say that something “tastes like cotton candy”? Cotton candy is pure sugar, and hence its only actual flavor is sweet (which any sort of grape already has). What sets cotton candy apart isn’t its flavor, but its mouthfeel, and I have a hard time seeing how that could be replicated in a dense, moist solid.
No, there’s definitely something to cotton candy; I haven’t had these grapes, but I did have cotton candy-flavored Faygo that, apart from an overly quinine aftertaste, was spot on.
CC also has a distinct odor too.
I’ve seen it there, too, and the price always seems a little steep for what it is.
There are literally hundreds of heirloom tomato varieties that you will never see at a farmer’s market, let alone a grocery store, because they don’t transport well, and people grow them because they just plain old taste so good. The various Brandywine varieties are the best-known example of this, and they are very thin-skinned and often tear just from being picked.
My sister brought some of the cotton candy grapes to a family function a while back. I thought they were good and definitely tasted of cotton candy, but as I don’t regularly buy grapes, I have not had them since.
Really? My store sells it in pint-sized containers at the checkout lanes. And in the candy aisle.
Try your local big-box store.
The samples lady was handing out Cotton Candy grapes a while ago. I took a bite and spit it out (into a napkin) and said “Nope!” She laughed.
I just saw Moondrop grapes at my local grocery store this evening. The crop may have just been late this year.