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Cotton candy, also known as candy floss (candyfloss) and fairy floss, is a spun sugar confection that resembles cotton. It is made by heating and liquefying sugar, and spinning it centrifugally through minute holes, causing it to rapidly cool and re-solidify into fine strands. [1] It usually contains small amounts of flavoring or food coloring. [2]
Morrison, from Nashville, Tennessee, was an avid inventor, and has a number of inventions to his credit.One of them is the first cotton candy (originally named Fairy Floss and named Candy Floss in the UK and Fairy Floss in Australia) machine, which he invented in 1897 in cooperation with confectioner John C. Wharton.
Sir Macpherson Robertson with the winners trophy for the MacRobertson Air Race. Sir Macpherson Robertson [1] KBE (6 September 1859 – 20 August 1945) was an Australian philanthropist, entrepreneur and founder of chocolate and confectionery company MacRobertson's.
Cotton Candy is the trademark for a variety of sweet white table grapes of the cultivar IFG Seven whose flavour has been compared to cotton candy.The grapes were developed by horticulturist David Cain and his team at Bakersfield, California-based fruit breeder International Fruit Genetics (IFG). [1]
Machine-spun cotton candy invented by dentist William Morrison and confectioner John C. Wharton, and first introduced to a wide audience at the 1904 World's Fair as Fairy Floss Confections USA 1897 Gallo (Famosa) Guatemalan beer introduced Alcoholic beverages Guatemala 1897 Grape Nuts introduced Grains USA 1897 Al Ahram brewery founded
An unfrozen (top) and frozen (bottom) fairy floss flavoured Zooper Dooper. Zooper Doopers come in 8 different flavours, raspberry, fairy floss, cola, blackcurrant, orange, pineapple, lime and bubblegum. Once frozen, the top of the plastic tube can be cut, exposing the frozen product within which can then be eaten from the tube.
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This article dated the 12th of August 2013 documents how an Australian Family who sell fairy floss at the Brisbane RNA Exhibition (Ekka) claim to have invented the colouring process for fairy floss. The article is titled "Ekka 2013: Pinks spin a colourful fairy floss tale."