Day 39 Funky Food Day

There's no egg in egg creams and no cotton in cotton candy. I know because I ate both of those today.
I stopped in a candy and nut shop in my neighborhood that specializes in nostalgic candy: Mary Janes, mini marshmallow ice cream cones, chocolate cigarettes, Fizzie Drink Action tablets and every retro sweet in between including Gold Mine gum and candy buttons (globs of colored dots on adding machine paper).
I was there with my son, big mistake, who spied the cellophane bags of pink cotton candy. A 2 ounce package of dyed sugar batting has 200 calories. I pull off a piece from the fluff mass, maybe an 1/8, and let it dissolve in my mouth (50). It wasn't so much as delicious as it was memory inducing.
Now unto that classic NY beverage, the eggless egg cream, of which the essential components are soda water, Vitamin D milk, and chocolate syrup. Not just any chocolate syrup. Any egg cream aficionado worth his seltzer knows it's not a classic egg cream unless Fox's U Bet chocolate syrup is used.

My son, while watching something on t.v., calls out to ask me what's in an egg cream? Rare teachable moment. I ask him what HE thinks is in it. He shrugs, disinterested, "I dunno know." I seize the moment to educate. I was heading to the grocery store anyway, so while there I thought I'd pick up the three vital ingredients, fully expecting to substitute Hershey's, but to my shock, our Midwest supermarket actually stocked Fox's U Bet. Small world, at least, in the ethnic aisles at the grocers.
I walked my son through each preparation step, from using the appropriate tumbler, to pouring the syrup slowly down the inside of the glass and stirring like mad with a long iced tea spoon, resulting in a drink with an inch of fizzy, white foam on top. As he clanked the spoon inside the glass, I enlightened him with all things egg cream from its legendary, and somewhat disputed origins to pasteurization, soda jerks, the esteemed egg cream guru, Louis Auster, Brooklyn. He sipped it and shrugged, "it's okay, kinda like a Graeter's chocolate soda without ice cream." I started to tell him about other Jewish foods we could explore...blintzes, bialys, hamantaschen. He walked out of the kitchen, totally uninterested, "hey mom, why couldn't we have just added soda water to Nesquik chocolate milk?" What chutzpah.
Day 39 Calorie Count: 1370 (including cotton candy and the egg cream).