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How to load a PEZ dispenser:















These images were taken from the PEZ website - go visit folks! www.pez.com. It is most educational. I have to say however, I have mastered the art of getting all the PEZ into the dispenser at once, without touching them, straight for the packet. As lets be honest, if you put each one in the dispenser by hand, it is a bit manky to then offer one to someone else if you are a particularly unclean person.

In other news, I love PEZ

I only have 2 packets of PEZ left!

O woe is me!

As I write this my PEZ stocks are being depleted by a hinky little fairy.

I like the way all the little PEZ bricks have the word "PEZ" on them.

Anyhow, researching PEZ; it turns out the name PEZ was derived from the German word for peppermint, Pfefferminz, the first PEZ flavour.

Furthermore: "PEZ Dispensers are part of popular culture in many nations."
Those must be great countries to live in, unlike here were PEZ are not widely sold.

PEZ was invented in 1927 in Vienna by a confectioner named Eduard Haas III. Haas produced PEZ dispensers to hold the mints, the first dispensers (known as "regulars") being small tins similar in shape to cigarette lighters, and marketed the mints as an alternative to smoking. In 1955, after the introduction of PEZ to the USA, the PEZ company placed heads on the dispensers and marketed the product for children. Santa Claus, Mickey Mouse and Spacetrooper were among the first character dispensers.


- Wow, aren't PEZ amazing! It's like eating little bricks of history, nostalgia, and popular culture, dispensed from another favourite - the lighter. I like orange flavour best.