Carnival
The food you find at a fairground or amusement park is not good for your body, but it does wonders for your inner child. Fried, crisp and soft and hot; spun-sugar, ice-cream sticky; bathed in cheese or shrouded in sugar. Corn dogs, brown and slathered with ketchup - fried Oreos, the cookies gone soft in the middle - piles of huge steak-cut fries drowning in a lake of hot cheese.
Children wander around sticky-mouthed, Icees or soft-serve clutched in their hands. The adults are neater, their hands cleaned, their mouths wiped, but their eyes give them away, drifting back to childhood. In their hearts, their mouths are sticky, too.