Food Bacchanalia Cotton Candy

Yumm , Cotton Candy, a delicious sweet and savory treat that melts in your mouth. This delight is mostly found at amusement parks. Now you might be wondering, how did someone come up with a treat this delicious? It might surprise you that cotton candy was actually invented by a dentist! Yes, a dentist! His name was William Morrison. He teamed up with Tennessee candy maker, John Wharton, to create the concoction known as “fairy floss” with great success, selling 68,655 boxes at 25¢ per box (equivalent to $6 per box today). Unopened in a standard plastic bag, cotton candy will last three days to three weeks. In a plastic container with a tightly sealed lid, cotton candy would last five to ten weeks. Left out in the open air, cotton candy will last about ten to twenty minutes. This sugary treat is spun in machines. When spun, a small amount of sugar creates a  much larger serving of candy floss. This is because it is mostly air. The molten sugar solidifies in the air and is caught in a larger bowl which totally surrounds the spinning head. In order to give cotton candy its color and flavor, they either mix floss sugar concentrate with regular granulated sugar or buy a product that is already pre-mixed. When you start to see a candy floss/ string you put a paper or plastic wand in the machine to gather up all of the airy candy!  Louisiana, invented similar cotton the candy machine in 1921 called sweet confection “cotton candy” and the “fairy floss” name faded away, although it retains this name in Australia. Now if you get cotton candy at amusements parks you usually find that they are blue and pink, but why? It turns out they’ve just been popular throughout the years.  They actually use red food coloring, but the process makes the final product come out pink. Cotton candy is one of the most popular candy’s out there, the reason for this is because of how colorful they make it, which makes kids want it even more.