Viral: Cotton Candy in Exchange for Human Hair ‘Baal Do, Khaana Lo’

Street vendor Pratap Singh is shown delivering cotton candies, also known as Budhiya Ke Baal, to children who bring him human hair in a video released by YouTube food blogger Foody Vishal.

Food videos have taken over the internet and social media. One video of novel food business, in which a street vendor sells cotton candy in exchange for human hair, has gone viral.

Children line up in front of the man’s tiny shop on his bicycle, grabbing a fistful of hair. He gets the hair and turns it in for pink cotton candy! A small youngster was overheard claiming to have taken hair from his mother’s head.

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Here’s the link to the video:

Netizens loves the concept in this viral video. As one user stated, “Humare yha baal ke badle zeera milta hai.”

Another user commented, “Earlier, people used the barter system to purchase things in 18th century.

However, this barter system is still in use today…”Baal ke badle baal” is a unique method of selling street food.