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Hey friends, don't you just love the fair?
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The games, people and of course the oh so delicious food!
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Hmm, so what's your favorite food?
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The corn dog or the hot dog?
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Maybe the pretzels?
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Well, my favorite food is the cotton candy.
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I just love it.
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It's so soft and wispy.
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It's like putting a cloud in your mouth.
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Well, do you know that cotton candy was actually invented by a dentist?
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That's right.
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Come, let me tell you how this dentist came up with this wonderful candy.
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Zoom in!
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I'm sure you have seen the cotton candy makers use a machine to whip up that delicious stringy candy.
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But do you know how it makes sugar into the strings that we eat?
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What this machine does is heat the sugar mixture up to its boiling point,
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making it a liquid.
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While doing this, it also spins really really fast at a speed of around 3500 rotations per minute.
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As the sugar gets liquified,
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because of the spinning, it shoots out of the center through tiny holes.
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On coming in contact with the air,
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it instantly solidifies and forms a very thin strand of sugar thread.
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These strands are then collected on a stick and served to the eager young children surrounding it.
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Now that you know how it works,
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you can even make some at home.
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But early in the 18th century,
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the task of whipping the sugar syrup into strands was a manual task.
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Only the rich could afford it and even then,
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it was very time consuming and took a lot of effort.
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So, it wasn't a very widespread treat until the hero of our story invented a machine to do this work.
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Now, let's talk about the dentist who gave us this wonderful invention.
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That's right, a dentist made this candy,
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so you know that it can't be bad for you.
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William James Morrison was born in 1860 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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He graduated from the University of Tennessee Dental College in 1890 as a dentist.
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Morrison was a man with a sweet tooth.
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He loved all kinds of candy.
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He loved candy so much that he even had a friend who was a confectioner named John C.
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Wharton.
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In 1897, Morrison and Wharton came up with the idea of creating a sugary sweet,
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which would be soft and fluffy.
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They decided to promote this invention of theirs at the famous St. Louis Fair in 1904.
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This was a seven month long fair,
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where over the years, All kinds of inventions from all over the world were showcased.
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This was a huge deal as getting a pavilion here was not easy.
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And the fair had so many attractions that the competition was tough.
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But the air like candy was a hit nonetheless.
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Morrison and Wharton sold their candy by the name of Fairy Floss in small wooden boxes.
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It was priced at 25 cents,
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which at that time was half the price of the fare ticket itself.
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But even this didn't stop the Fairy Floss from shining.
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And the two friends sold over 68,000 boxes.
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But although Fairy Floss was a huge hit,
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the machine they used at the time was quite unreliable.
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They would shake and rattle and often break down.
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This is where Gold Medal Products came in.
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A company that delved in food related products in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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This was the company that took charge to improve the design of the machine and make it more reliable.
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They did this by adding a spring to the bottom of the mechanism
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and It worked so well that the design of the machine hasn't changed much ever since
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Except that now they have a lot more Flavors
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and you know what else hasn't changed since the beginning our very own Trivia time
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Cotton candy has only one ingredient sugar the rest is just plain air
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America celebrates its national cotton candy day on 7th November every year Well friends,
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wasn't that a sweet story?
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Now, if anyone ever tells you that you eat a lot of cotton candy,
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you can tell them that there's a dentist to blame for it.
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Well, hope you enjoyed this fun and tasty invention.
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Tune in next time for more fun facts.
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This is me, Zooming Out!
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so you won't miss out on my latest videos!
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重要な語彙とフレーズ
- 綿菓子 (cotton candy)
- 発明 (invention)
- 甘い (sweet)
- 回転 (rotation)
- 空気 (air)
- 機械 (machine)
- お祭り (fair)
- フワフワ (fluffy)
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このビデオの速さとトーンに合わせて、シャドーイング練習を行うことで、英語スピーキングのスキルを向上させることができます。話のテンポが比較的ゆっくりとしているので、自分のペースで理解しやすい部分から始めましょう。わからないフレーズがあれば、ビデオを一時停止し、何度も繰り返してみてください。特に発明や回転といった専門的な語彙に焦点を当てると、英語での表現力が高まります。また、YouTubeで英語学習を続けることで、リスニング力を強化し、英語シャドーイングを用いた練習を行うことができます。
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