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♡Cotton Candy history♡
Have you ever eaten cotton candy or wondered about its history? Well I'm going to tell you about it today.

☺☺☺ Cotton candy was first made by 2 men from Nashville , John c. Warton and William Morrison.They invented the first Cotton candy machine on 1897. Cotton candy was originally made for men but girls ate it to. They first introduced it at the St.Louis world fair on 1904. When they introduced it they sold about 68,655 servings of cotton candy for 25 cents each. They got 17,163.75 dollars which is allot back then. Cotton candy was first white but later on they put food coloring and flavoring to it so more people would enjoy it and buy it at the fair or at home. Cotton candy has lots of names such as in Germany Sugar wool, in France paps beard, and in Great Britain candy floss. Although cotton candy was named so many names in America the name cotton candy became stuck around 1920. You can find cotton candy almost always at amusements parks and at circuses.

☺☺☺ The cotton candy machine was made up of a heating device connected to a cylinder that would run through the large center of the spinning bow. When you would go to add the sugar to the quarter sized hole in the base of the machine the sugar would melt because of the heating device then it would be pushed up tiny holes through the cylinder and ounce it hit the cold air it turned into tiny threads which made cotton candy. ☺☺☺ Although cotton candy was so popular they tried to make the cotton candy into shapes. But scene the holes were not even and they could not control the melted sugar where to go that did not work it came out unevenly every time.

☺☺☺ In 1949 the company Gold Medal of Cincinnati designed a machine the used springs which made it go evenly which made the candy come out constantly. This invention made it more reliable and kept it from malfunctioning. Gold Medals still runs today and sells most of the cotton candy and cotton candy machines in the United States.

☺☺☺ So as you can see there is a lot of history behind cotton candy like its names who made it and lots of other things thanks for reading my post hope you enjoyed reading in and hope you learned something from cotton candy.