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Ever wondered how candy floss came about well here is a little timeline and history lesson. The history of candy floss has seen a lot of evolution over the last hundred years. With candy floss being a popular treat nowadays, let’s dive into the humble history of cotton candy.
In 1897, William Morrison, a dentist from Nashville, Tennessee, filed a patent for the first cotton/ floss machine. He worked alongside a candy maker, John Wharton, to build the first machines, which proved unreliable at best. They often broke down or didn’t work as smoothly as they should. The cotton candy produced was then called “Fairy Floss” because the strands of spun sugar are so thin.
Did you know? Dr. Morrison was not a 1-trick pony! He also developed a lard substitute made from cottonseed oil and formulated a chemical process to filter and clean public drinking water in Nashville ..ok back to our sweet story. While it seems odd that a dentist and a candy maker would come together to create a cavity-inducing treat, candy floss really doesn’t contain as much sugar as you would think. It’s primarily made up of air and has far less sugar than other fairground snacks. In fact a kids portion has just 60 calories of sugar less than half the amount in a can of the big brands drinks. I took more calories to write this blog then in a portion or yummy candy floss and I know which one I would prefer.
By 1904, the two collaborators had perfected a cotton candy machine that debuted at the St. Louis World’s Fair. The fair hosted more than nineteen million people to show off the latest science, medicine, and culture technologies – including new types of foods – which enticed curious visitors. Sugar was only a few cents per pound. Imagine that? Each serving of Fairy Floss costs this dynamic duo fractions of a penny But people loved it, and by the end of the fair, they had sold more than 68,000 pieces of fairy floss.
Selling cotton candy made Morrison and Wharton over a whopping $17,000 and cemented their confection into a tradition at fairs and carnivals. For comparison, an average dentist made $2,500 per year back then. Ah, the taste of the American dream. The first recorded sale of candy floss in the UK was at the Crystal Palace Easter Fair in London in 1907. The stall was run by a confectioner named Arthur Fearn, who had bought a machine from Morrison and Wharton. Fearn's stall was a huge success, and he quickly became known as the "King of Candy Floss". Accodring to the Guardian brits 2.5kg of candy floss in a lifetime 67m people that’s a whopping 167m kg of candy floss
Following the fair, the two creators continued selling their candy floss in their native state, Tennessee and ran advertisements for the machine in newspapers across the country. When they marketed the product at a lower price, Americans latched onto this delicious treat known as “fairy floss, well it was never going to fly here and if it was still called fairy floss today we be up before the WOKE board they court of human rights or using the word fairy, they don’t exisit they are all non binary and identify themselves and something or other. Back to our sweet tale of sugary success.
Because of patent law, anyone interested in making money from fairy candy floss had to purchase the machine from the two inventors. But by 1921, new competitors were legally allowed to enter the market. This was the beginning of a rapid change in candy floss production and advancement. Another dentist from New Orleans, Joseph Lascaux, created another model of cotton candy machine in 1921. While his design is far from the modern devices we use today, Lascaux is responsible for the new name: cotton candy.
By 1949, the company Gold Medal Products of Ohio produced a spring-loading base that preserved the machine’s longevity and allowed them to be mass-produced. This improvement made the machine more stable and reliable, which meant that more cotton candy could be produced. This gave so many people a chance at starting up their own business. In 1951, they introduced a machine that could automatically roll the candy into a cone. And by the 1970s, cotton candy machines could be fully automated, even bagging the candy on its own and today there are candy floss robot vending machines which are about to become the proud owner and playing our part in the evolution of the humble candy floss. We make our own brand of candy floss sugar sold on here
Whether you call it “fairy floss” or cotton candy or candy floss, the spun-sugar treat is now a staple at large events. Morrison, a dentist, took what is usually a dentist’s nightmare – sugar – and turned it into a snack with less sugar than a bottle of Coke. So the next time you get blue raspberry candy floss, you now know that it is dentist-approved. www.hirecandyflossuk and Cotton Candyland are brand names and trade marks owned by Everyone Loves Baking ltd and its subsidiary companies