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• Cotton candy is made with sugar and food coloring. A cotton candy machine has a center bowl that is heated and a larger outer bowl to catch the spun sugar. Sugar and food coloring are placed inside the smaller heated bowl and melted into a liquid state and as the machine spins the liquid sugar comes out through small holes and into the larger outer bowl. This spun sugar can be put on a stick or gathered and put in a bag.

  In 1899 John C. Wharton and William Morrison got a patent for the first cotton candy machine and they took the machine to the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. They called their cotton candy fairy floss. It became a popular hit and still is today.

• Fast Facts

  1. Cotton candy is a form of spun sugar
  2. Also known as candy floss and fairy floss
  3. National Cotton Candy Day: December 7
  4. Fairy floss name changed to cotton candy in 1920
  5. Can be made any color
  6. Popular at fairs and circus's
  7. Most popular color pink
  8. Dissolves quickly in the mouth
  9. Called old womens hair in Greece, Israel and India

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