Sunday, December 02, 2007

Fairy Floss (From Robert Perry)


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buckles seen a candy floss stall on the blog what do you think of ours fairy floss that is what we call it in aussie $3 A STICK HERE Robert Perry

Posted by Buckles at 12/02/2007 06:32:00 AM

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fairy floss was the name of the treat when it was sold at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. The spun sugar was originally made by hand in pots -- not very efficient. Two men from TN (for Whitey) developed an electric machine to cook the sugar and turn out floss in large quantities in time for the Fair. (Like iced tea, cotton candy didn't debut at the Fair.) Vendors would sell a "cracker jack" sized box of fairy floss for 25 cent. Adjusting for inflation, that would a comparable price to that charged on Feld shows. PAY NO MORE

02 December, 2007 13:28
Anonymous said...

Mr. Perry:

Two medium sized pieces of USA cotton candy are placed in a bag and tied with a rubber band then placed on a 15 inch stick with a souvenir hat and sold on Ringling for $12.00.

Most other shows are selling floss on a paper cone for $3-4.

RBBB economic being what it is:
16000 seat arena on a Saturday, let's say you sell 1000 pieces per show and three shows a day, thats 3000 pieces TIMES 12 dollars, that's $36,000 in one day. Now remember RBBB has three circuses and about 5(+/-)ice shows so carrying the equation even further and that's $288,000 in Floss Sales in one day.

Fair Dinkem.

That should pay for a few shrimp on the barbie, righty matey?

02 December, 2007 17:48
Anonymous said...

Robert, is your show still operating, where can I find more info on your Show? Thanks ...Jim Zajicek

02 December, 2007 18:13
Anonymous said...

Now that I was gracious enough to help count Mr. Feld's money; I am awaiting his call offering his help counting mine.

02 December, 2007 21:13
Anonymous said...

hello jim no we sold our show in 1993 to lindsay & jan lennon now call the show stardust one of a very few animal shows left have now semi retired in Murray bridge south australia about 40 miles from adelaide on the murray river if any of you circus people visit aussie please give me a call
Robert Perry

03 December, 2007 04:54
Anonymous said...

We saw Stardust in Cairns several years ago. Nice show.

03 December, 2007 09:37

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