Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Algodones for cotton candy or candy floss or tooth floss or fairy floss. To sweeten this post, here’s some English-language trivia about algodones. Cotton candy (U.S., India, Canada), candy floss (UK, Pakistan, Ireland, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Canada), or tooth floss (South Africa), and Fairy … Read more
Imagine that now you can follow the location updates of the cotton candy vendors on Periscope and Twitter. No more should you go to sleep craving sweet fairy floss. Honest, what we need is Antigua App with instant updates for the current location of whatever street food vendor you need. Can anyone tell me how … Read more
Algodones are another very popular Christmas comfort candy found in town fair, church atriums and around plazas and parks. Algodón is the word we use in Guatemala for cotton candy or candyfloss; algodones in plural. Since I was wondering for how long cotton candy has been a tradition in the Guatemalan fairgrounds I did a … Read more