There are few (read: no) things more exciting in this world than sugar. Which is precisely why cotton candy, a confection that is nothing but sugar mixed with air, is one of the greatest things to have ever happened to us.
While we're not in the habit of questioning the sweet culinary miracles that make their way into our lives, whether it's Snickers lasagna or cookie butter no-churn ice cream, we can't help but enjoy a good origin story, and the invention of cotton candy just so happens to be pretty fascinating. Not just because it seems to require a certain kind of wizardry to create a sweet treat out of mostly the air we breathe—seriously, though, cotton candy is 70 percent air, i.e. eating it is like eating oxygen—but also because the man behind the treat was ... wait for it ... a dentist.
Just so we're clear, this pretty much makes cotton candy the same as cavity-fighting, tooth-whitening toothpaste in our book.
Also, we'll be referring to cotton candy as fairy floss from now on, and not just because that means that we can use "flossing" and "eating cotton candy" synonymously.
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