Cotton Candy: Fun Facts About This Vibrantly-Colored Sweet Treat

So how did this sweet treat come to life? Based on the article in Hawaiian Shaved Ice, cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist and a candy maker. Dentist Dr. William Morrison and John C. Wharton, a candy maker worked together in 1987 to create a device that would melt crystallized sugar and blew it through a fine screen and this would create the threads.