Only because it implies that he was really hoping to make cotton candy his food staple, not just plain table sugar. Serving cotton candy instead of rice or potatoes or bread does tickle my absurdist funny bone.
Sugar has no nutritive value except energy and is >99% digestible (no fiber). No vitamins, minerals, or metals that are needed for life. Rice at least has amino acids, B vitamins, and a smattering of iron, copper, and selenium - all required for life. Sugar has none of these nutrients.
- Honesty
I haven’t seen any unhealthy ants. In fact even the old ones can still lift 10 times their own weight. and I have yet to see a fat ant
Yes. Carbs are one type of nutrients. Vitamins, minerals, anioxidents, proteins are other nutrients. Did you see the word “other” in what you quoted?
Table sugar give you carbs and nothing else. Other carbs gives you proteins and vitamins etc along with it.
Of course…but it’s not so funny when you break it down like that. Explaining the joke always ruins it.
Go ahead grow an exoskeleton, secrete formic acid, and eat all the sugar you want. 
I never said this. Sugars are carbohydrates, and carbohydrates are nutrients. Therefore, sugars are nutrients. Non-nutritive sweeteners are your saccharines and your aspartames and your Ace-Ks and so forth. Sugar is, in contrast, a nutritive sweetener.
By the way, so you’re not misunderstanding me, I am in absolute agreement that people should, in general, avoid refined sugar. I do that myself. But there’s no need to make alarmist, incorrect statements like, “Table sugar is so incredibly non-nutritive that almost nothing can eat it” in support of that claim. It can stand on its merits without resorting to exaggeration.
You can hardly accuse me of ruining it, though. My post comes long after the joke. I was just explaining it to people who apparently didn’t find it funny. You can’t ruin an unfunny joke.
I was going to make a second joke instead, that would clue you into the first joke, but I couldn’t get it to come out right:
“Honey, would you please pass the corn?”
“Sure, if you’ll pass me the gravy. The cotton candy’s in the way.”
Thais do eat too much sugar. And yes, sugar is a standard condiment for phat thai, although I don’t add it myself.
This might be true
But this sounds too much like the “margarine is a molecule away from plastic” nonsense.