The Goo Goo Cluster celebrated its 100th anniversary with much deserved fanfare in 2012. Hot chicken is the star of its own festival in Nashville each year. Meat-and-three restaurants are Nashville lunchtime staples almost every day.
And yet, one of Nashville's most consequential culinary breakthroughs has slipped by the wayside, drifting away to the point that many longtime residents aren't even aware it was invented here.
You know it as cotton candy, but in the 1890s, a Nashville dentist - yes, a dentist - and a candymaker partnered to invent a fluffy, sugary treat they called "fairy floss."
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