Cotton candy has different names such as candy floss, fairy floss and suikerspin around the world, but its main ingredient is sugar everywhere. It is strange that machine-spun cotton candy was actually invented by dentist William Morrison with the help of confectioner John C Wharton in 1897. The sugary treat was first introduced at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. Another dentist named Joseph Lascaux reinvented the machine in 1921. It was he who named it cotton candy.
In 1900, Thomas Patton received a separate patent for his work with caramelized sugar and forming long threads of it with a fork. He later used a gas-fired rotating plate to spin the threads.
In 1949, Gold Metal Products of Cincinnati, Ohio introduced a cotton candy machine with a spring base that helped tremendously. Today, it manufactures almost all cotton candy machines.
Due to the lack of automated machines that could produce enough products for widespread distribution prior to the 1970s, cotton candy was only produced on a small scale. Then, in 1972, a cotton candy machine for automatic manufacture and packaging was patented. It allowed the mass production of cotton candy. Tootsie Roll of Canada Ltd., the world’s largest cotton-candy manufacturer, makes a fluffy stuff, fruit-flavored version of cotton candy.
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