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Cup o'Joe-You Better Floss After Fairy Floss

They called it “Fairy Floss” and people stood in line inside the Palace of Electricity at 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair to taste it, ready to shell out twenty-five cents, a considerable amount given that entrance to the fair was fifty cents. What did were they so eager to taste? Sugar! Of course, there was nothing new about eating sugar. But Fairy Floss was different. Tennessee natives William Morrison and John Wharton had invented a machine running on electricity that forced a spinning mass of melted sugar through a screen dotted with fine holes. The molten sugar quickly cooled as it passed through the screen and produced thin fibers that tangled together to produce a large airy ball. It was fun to eat because it quickly melted in the mouth! Morrison and Wharton patented their machine in 1897 and sold it around the country. Joseph Lascaux was captivated by the new-fangled candy, and in 1921 produced a similar machine. To him the ball of filaments of sugar looked like a cotton boll and he called his product “cotton candy.” And the name stuck. Just like cotton candy to everything it touched. The temperature of the melted sugar was not high enough to cause any caramelization, so the original version tasted like, well, sugar. Eventually food dyes, pink and blue being the most popular, were added to the spinning mix. Then came artificial flavours. Ethyl maltol, vanillin and furaneol, which actually occurs naturally in strawberries, produced the flavour we now recognize as cotton candy flavor. The same ingredients can be used to produce cotton candy ice cream. But they are not found in cotton candy grapes. Those were produced by cross-breeding different grapes in an attempt to produce varieties with an improved texture and one of these purely by chance tasted something like cotton candy. They are now sold around the world. An interesting footnote is that long before the invention of the cotton candy machine, Chinese confectioners heated a mix of sugar and rice flour and drew it into this threads that stuck to the face like a beard, much like cotton candy. Then in 15th-century Italy, chefs were known to melt sugar and using a fork quickly spun it and flicked the residue on the fork onto a cooler surface to create crunchy twigs of sugar not too far removed from cotton candy. That is the process that was perfected by the machines introduced independently by Morrison and Lascaux. Now here is a kicker. William Morrison and Joseph Lascaux were both dentists! Sugar of course can cause cavities, so they benefitted from their invention in more ways than one!