The candyfloss has spread throughout the world and is traditionally associated with festive events, and in general to children. William Morrison and John C. Wharton, two barber shops in Nashville (Tennessee), are the inventors of candyfloss, they built the machine to produce it in 1897, but the product was presented to the general public only in 1904, the World Fair in Saint Louis (Missouri). He was presented with the name of fairy floss (wool fairy) and had a huge success.
In Italy, the candyfloss made the first appearance in 1906, in Udine, with the Circus of Buffalo Bill.
The candyfloss is made with sugar and, eventually, food colorings and flavorings. The machinery for the production of candyfloss using this process: the central part of the machine consists of a container where you put the sugar, with added colorings and flavorings. An electrical resistance heating ingredients melting sugar. The sugar melted off leaves from the central body through tiny holes, coming in contact with colder air solidifies and assumes a characteristic composition in fillets, which are collected in a metal container. You just turn a stick along the metal container to collect the threads of sugar that are very sticky, so they will attack each other becoming like a wad of cotton.
