December 7th was National Cotton Candy Day so I thought I would share these fun facts.
- Machine spun cotton candy was invented in 1897 by dentist William Morrison and confectioner John C Wharton.
- They called cotton candy Fairy Floss and Candy Floss and it resembles cotton.
- It was first introduced at the 1904 World’s Fair.
- At the World’s Fair they sold over 68,655 boxes. They sold a box for .25 cents which would be $8.14 today.
- Cotton candy is made by heating and liquefying sugar and spinning it centrifugally through minute holes. This causes it to cool rapidly and re-solidify into fine strands.
- Cotton Candy is often sold at fairs, circuses, carnivals and festivals.
- It is served in plastic bags, on a stick or on a paper cone.
- There is a small amount of flavoring and food coloring in cotton candy.
- Sold globally, it is called candy floss in the United Kingdom, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and South Africa. It is called fairy floss in Australia, “daddy’s beard” in France, “girls hair” in the United Arab Emirates and “girls yarn” in Egypt.
- A thread of cotton candy is thinner than a human hair.
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