{"id":5115,"date":"2013-08-14T14:07:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T20:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=5115"},"modified":"2013-08-14T14:07:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T20:07:14","slug":"cotton-candy-grapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2013\/08\/14\/cotton-candy-grapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton-Candy Grapes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/grapes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5116\" title=\"grapes\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/grapes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><em>Photo courtesy of just2shutter at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedigitalphotos.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">freedigitalphotos.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve heard of everything at the Fair &#8230; bacon-wrapped jalapenos, maple bacon donuts, deep-fried Kool-Aid (and cereal, Oreos etc.) But even we were a little surprised to hear about Cotton-Candy grapes.<br \/>\nThese little novelties are all-natural, actual grapes. They just happen to taste like cotton candy. Apparently the sweet flavor was born from cross-pollinating wild grape species. The harvest comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grapery.biz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grapery<\/a>. The grapes are seedless and quite juicy. According to Grapery&#8217;s website, participants of blind taste testings believed they were eating some form of cotton candy.<br \/>\nWe have enough cotton candy at the Fair to create pink, wispy mountains. I wonder if cotton-candy grapes will be on next year&#8217;s list of food novelties&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo courtesy of just2shutter at freedigitalphotos.net We&#8217;ve heard of everything at the Fair &#8230; bacon-wrapped jalapenos, maple bacon donuts, deep-fried Kool-Aid (and cereal, Oreos etc.) But even we were a little surprised to hear about Cotton-Candy grapes. These little novelties are all-natural, actual grapes. They just happen to taste like cotton candy. Apparently the sweet&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[236,441],"class_list":["post-5115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-cotton-candy-grapes","tag-food-novelties"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}