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By
Diane Forrest,
The other night as I was waiting in the checkout line in
the store I saw a little boy in front of me holding a bright colored bag. The words Fluffy Stuff were written on the
bag along with a picture of a pink fluffy cloud. Immediately my thoughts flew
back to my childhood and trips to the amusement park at my grandmother's
home. I remember standing out in the
cool night air watching as a man took a long white paper cone and twirl it
inside a big round noisy machine. In seconds
strands of pink spun sugar started to appear on the cone, and as it continued
to circle the machine the pink cloud began to grow. When it was finished, I was handed this large
cone of pink fluffy stuff that surely must have come straight from heaven. I put a piece in my mouth and it tasted like
a warm sweet piece of air.
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Would you believe that this sweet mass of spun sugar was
invented by a dentist? I am of the
opinion he was looking for repeat business.
In 1897 dentist William Morrison and confectioner John C. Wharton
introduced cotton candy to a wide audience at the 1904 World's Fair as
"Fairy Floss". At the time the
cost of a box was 25 cents, which was quite expensive at that time. In the 1920's Fairy Floss was renamed as
Cotton Candy. In the 1970s an automatic
cotton candy machine was created which made the product and packaged it. This
made it easier to produce and available to sell at carnivals, fairs, and
stores. Cotton candy is white, however
food coloring is added to color it to pinks, blues, yellows or any other color.
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Today is National Cotton Candy Day. Why not revisit your childhood and indulge in
a bright colored bag full of fluffy stuff.
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