Here By Glimpses Known

[wayfaringwordhack]

The Egyptian answer to the ice cream truck*:

Cotton candy (and balloon) vendor.  That is a kazoo-like horn at his lips, and he blows it while walking the streets, usually around the time school lets out, alerting those with a sweet tooth that he is in the vicinity.

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*  Actually there are ice cream carts here. I need to get a pic of one; they are quite decorative, usually in the form of a swan-like bird.  Don't ask me why.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I don't believe it: Cotton candy features in my current story :-)

I love cotton candy--like eating sunset clouds.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Story and life overlap, like they did when I posted about armadillos and Lisa said she had armadillos in her MS. :D

Purrrrrfect cloud icon.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

It's been ages (years) since I had cotton candy. Could eat some now. :p

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

I tasted some, um, a couple of weeks before Junebug was born because Sprout had some. :P

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I wonder if the sound of the kazoo horn is something that will take Egyptians back instantly back to their school days in Cairo, no matter where they are...

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

yeah, not as melodious as an ice cream truck jingle but probably just as evocative. :P