Americans consume 2.8 billion pounds of chocolate each year. A product of the cacao plant, chocolate was enjoyed for thousands of years by Olmec, Mayan, and Aztec civilizations as a drink that was thought to stimulate sexual potency and strength in battle.

Hard to believe, but when “fairy floss” was first made for the public at the World’s Fair in 1904, it was the brainchild of Tennessee dentist William Morrison and confectioner John C. Wharton. Years later, another dentist would try his hand at confection production (though not with the same success as Morrison), and the Louisiana native was the one who called the fluffy clouds of sugar “Cotton Candy.”