In the US, cotton candy is available in a wide variety of flavors, but two flavor-blend colors predominate- blue raspberry and pink vanilla, both originally formulated by the Gold Medal brand (which uses the names 'Boo Blue' and 'Silly Nilly'). When spun, cotton candy is white because it is made from sugar, but adding dye or coloring transforms the color. The source material for candy mesh is usually both colored and flavored. Modern innovations in cotton-candy equipment include vending machines which automatically produce single servings of the product, developed in Taiwan and lighted or glowing sticks. The product is sensitive to humidity, and in humid summer locales, the process can be messy and sticky. As the sugar reserve bowl empties, the operator recharges it with more feedstock. Left to operate for a period, the cotton-like product builds up on the inside walls of the larger bowl, at which point machine operators twirl a stick or cone around the rim of the large catching bowl, gathering the sugar strands into portions which are served on stick or cone, or in plastic bags. The molten sugar solidifies in the air and is caught in a larger bowl which totally surrounds the spinning head. Colored sugar packaged specially for the process is milled with melting characteristics and a crystal size optimized for the head and heated holes granulated sugar used in baking contains fine crystals which spin out unmelted, while rock sugar crystals are too large to properly contact the heater, slowing the production of cotton candy. Heaters near the rim of the head melt the sugar, which is squeezed out through tiny holes by centrifugal force. Typical machines used to make cotton candy include a spinning head enclosing a small 'sugar reserve' bowl into which a charge of granulated, colored sugar (or separate sugar and food coloring) is poured.

Man makes cotton candy in cotton candy machine, Village- Bharaj, Sangrur, Punjab, India In the United States, National Cotton Candy Day is celebrated on December 7. Tootsie Roll Industries, the world's largest cotton candy manufacturer, makes a bagged, fruit-flavored version called Fluffy Stuff.

In the 1970s, an automatic cotton candy machine was created which made the product and packaged it, making it easier to produce at carnivals, stalls and other events requiring more portable production. His patent named the sweet confection 'cotton candy', eventually overtaking the name 'fairy floss', although it retains this name in Australia. Joseph Lascaux, a dentist from New Orleans, Louisiana, invented a similar cotton candy machine in 1921. His patent remains today as the basic cotton candy machine. By May 1907, he transferred the rights to the General Electric Company of New York. Robinson of Lynn, Massachusetts submitted his patent for an Electric Candy-Spinning Machine, a combination of an electronic starter and motor-driven rotatable bowl that maintained heating efficiently. Wharton, and first introduced to a wide audience at the 1904 World's Fair as Fairy Floss with great success, selling 68,655 boxes at 25¢ ($7.54 today) per box. Machine-spun cotton candy was invented in 1897 by dentist William Morrison and confectioner John C. Others suggest versions of spun sugar originated in Italy as early as the 15th century. At that time, spun sugar was an expensive, labor-intensive endeavor and was not generally available to the average person. Several sources track the origin of cotton candy to a form of spun sugar found in Europe in the 19th century. Maple-flavored cotton candy at the cabane à sucre (sugar shack), Pakenham, Canada

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