Cotton Candy

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

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.

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