In the United States what was cotton candy's original name?

BRY2K

Though it was at time called spun sugar and Fairy Floss, a new name for it emerged around 1920 in America. The name was none other than cotton candy. Although this is the most common name for it, cotton candy still has a few alternative names throughout the world. For example, it is called candy floss in the United Kingdom and is even still called fairy floss in other parts of the world. By the late 1940's, one company had created a machine that would revolutionize the cotton candy industry. Then, in the 1970's, another company changed it forever by creating an automatic cotton candy machine. Not only did it make cotton candy on a mass scale, but it also packaged it automatically. Thanks to these two major changes, cotton candy can be bought in numerous stores as well as at traditional places such as carnivals and circuses. http://www.cottoncandy.net/history.html Aug 24 08, 2:51 PM

foosyerdoos

It was introduced in 1904 by William Morrison and John C. Wharton, at the St. Louis World's Fair as "Fairy Floss"[1] with great success, selling 68,655 boxes at the then-high $0.25 ($5.70 in 2007 dollars), half the cost of admission to the fair. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_candy Aug 24 08, 2:55 PM

Baloo55th

Probably the term cotton candy didn't take hold in the UK because we associate cotton more with vests than fluffy stuff. (Singlets, that is, for those over there.) Fairy Floss is a term referring to a female (or thereabouts) who may not be as light as candy floss, or whose name you can't remember for the moment, or various other similar things. (Not to be confused with Fairy Nuff.) Aug 24 08, 4:08 PM