Cotton candy, also known as candy floss (candyfloss) and fairy floss, is a spun sugar confection that resembles cotton. It usually contains small amounts of flavoring or food coloring.
It is made by heating and liquefying sugar, and spinning it centrifugally
through minute holes, causing it to rapidly cool and re-solidify into fine
strands. It is often sold at fairs, circuses, carnivals, and festivals,
served in a plastic bag, on a stick, or on a paper cone.