英文阅读：谁发明了棉花糖？
五颜六色的棉花糖，入口即化的甘甜滋味，这是很多成年人都无法抵挡的诱惑。好像不只是在吃糖，也是在品尝回忆。是谁这么伟大，发明了这样的好东西呢?The original monicker(外号) for spun sugar(棉花糖) was "fairy floss," the Brits
call it "candy floss," and we started calling it "cotton candy" in the
1920s.
According to Gourmet magazine (February 2000), the real story takes place
in 1897, when William Morrison and John C. Wharton, Tennessee candymakers from
Nashville, invented the world's first electric machine that allowed crystallized
sugar to be poured onto a heated spinning plate, then pushed by centrifugal
force through a series of tiny holes.
They proudly took their "Fairy Floss" to the 1904 Louisiana Purchase
Exposition (otherwise known as the St. Louis World's Fair) and sold the product
in chipped-wood boxes. Though they sold each box for a whopping 25 cents (half
of the fair admission price), they sold 68,655 boxes. (That same fair also
introduced the world's first ice-cream cone.)
Early spun-sugar machines were extremely unreliable. They rattled and broke
down constantly. The introduction of spring bases in 1949 proved to be a
breakthrough. The company that introduced that innovation, Gold Medal Products
of Cincinnati, Ohio, manufactures almost 100 percent of all cotton-candy
machines in the country today.
Cotton candy has been enjoying a resurgence of sorts. Though it does only
have about 100 calories and less sugar than a can of regular soda, it's a pure
sugar cash machine. Some cotton candy vendors claim (in an Internet ad) that "in
as little as 2 square feet of floor or counter space, you can place this easy-to
use cash generator that will continually bring in AT LEAST 90 cents profit on
every dollar sold!" Wonder if any dentists have stock in Gold Medal
Products.
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