WEBVTT - How PEZ Works 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:04.720 Welcome to Stuff you should know from the house stuff 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:12.640 Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.600 Josh Clark. There's Charles to Be, Chuck Bryant, there's guest 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.599 producer Noel and this is stuff you should have to do. 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:26.200 Do do do the Pez dition? Nice? I like that. 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.880 Another NOL cast as well. Yeah, pretty exciting. It's part 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:36.240 of the Knoll spin Wee, then ole stint We're gonna follow. Uh. 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.080 Do you like pets? But I like pets? Do you 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.800 like the candy? I? Do you like taste? I like 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.720 the taste of Pez. Yes. Describe to me what happens 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.360 when you can put a candy PEZ candy in your mound. Well, 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.160 I put a PEZ candy, I pull the head back, 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:57.880 the kicker kicks it out pop. Yes, nice, and I 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.880 take it from the Pez dispenser with my tooth. Oh 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.200 you don't really, you'd like go mouth the mouth with it? Sure? Well, 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:11.280 to tooth to kicker. Okay? Uh? And then I, um, yeah, 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.360 what do you do use your hand? Well? I don't 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.960 eat petz, but back when I was eight, I would 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:19.600 be delighted when I would pull the head back the 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.720 little candy with chewed out now, pick it out with 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.960 my hand, put in my mouth. Yeah, I use my teeth. Interesting, 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:26.840 I would feel like I was like going into to 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.080 make out with a daffy duck or something if I 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:37.160 did that. Oh that's half the fun. Oh boy. Anyway, 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.000 I don't care for the candy though. I wasn't done 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.959 describing pez go ahead, sorry, And then I take it 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.200 onto my tongue, right, and I start to savor the 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:51.760 flavor of it. Typically I prefer maybe um, well, definitely 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.600 one of the fruit flavors. I've never had a mint 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.240 pez or chocolate pets, which is new. I would try 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.160 the chocolate one, but say, like orange, We'll just go 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:05.280 with orange. I'm sitting there. I let it sit on 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.760 my tongue for all of like six nanoseconds, and then 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.040 I started to bite into it, and it's very much 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:17.120 like um. This explains why I like pests, especially orange pests. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:22.400 Once eight almost an entire bottle of orange flavored baby 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.840 aspirin for the taste. That's why I like pests. How 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.400 old were you then? Would be a kid? It's like 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:33.240 twenty something? Uh did it? Yes? I was a kid? 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.080 Well did you? What did it hurt? You know? Nothing 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.520 happened to me. We talked about that before. It feel 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.639 like because they aren't even it isn't even medicine. I 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:45.600 wonder it's But how could you use a placebo and 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.800 a little kid? I mean, I guess it worked, but 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.560 certainly there's an age where they're just like I feel 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.600 like half of parenting is probably placebo. Probably, well you 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:57.400 would know now, well not yet, Well let me know 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.399 she doesn't believe my lies yet. That will come later. Yeah, 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.760 I mean, I'm surely kids are pretty dumb, so you 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.400 can get them to believe anything. Sure, but there seems 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.480 like there would be an age where they wouldn't They 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.480 wouldn't make that connection, and a placebo wouldn't work. I 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.680 don't think a placebo would work, like say, from birth. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.160 And I don't remember what age you can start giving 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:24.800 kids baby aspirin. Baby don't even children as Anyway. I 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.520 like PEZ. I like how it tastes. I like the 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.920 experience of eating a pet alright, I don't care for pets. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:35.400 I also like the shape, the brick, the brick, the 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.760 it helps with the taste. I saw we did the 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.520 l a podcast pest this last weekend, and I can't 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.760 remember her name, but a very nice young lady brought 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.560 us some different candies and things. The Lego candies. Well, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.240 you jumped on that bag. It's like you want these 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.440 lego brick candies and you're like, yea, give me a 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.960 second time, man, I love those things. Yeah, And that's 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.640 sort of this. I put those on the same category, 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:01.840 which is just like compressed sugar right in like a 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:03.920 brick form. As a matter of fact, it turns out 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:09.440 the Pez company to the state uses about fifty thousand 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.720 pounds of sugar every four days making its Pez candies. 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.880 That's right. And here's a factoid for you, all right. 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:19.839 It takes three thousand pounds of pressure to compress the 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:24.839 Pez ingredients, which is not just sugar, into the delightful, tiny, 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.839 disgusting brick that you love. I don't think it's disgusting. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.320 I don't like candies. I have another one for you. 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.240 They make twelve million tablets a day at their Orange, 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:41.720 Connecticut facility, the headquarters of PETS, and three billion Pez 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:45.279 bricks are consumed in the US alone each year by 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:49.360 people like me who like Pez. Yes, roughly twelve at 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.440 a time, because that's how much the standard dispenser holds 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.520 and if this kind of thing floats your boat right now, 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.720 go check out how Stuff Works brain Stuff series on 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.920 YouTube and typically look up the one on pop rocks 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.359 that I did a year or two ago. It was 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:08.600 really interesting stuff. Candy manufacturing is fascinating. I don't care 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.359 what you say. No, I like manufacturing processes. I just 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.400 don't like to eat candy. I got you. You know 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.840 what I mean? You just go to the plant watch 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.680 it made and then turn down the free samples, like, no, 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.880 thank you. I find that disgust. Yeah. They're like, now, 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:23.479 would you like to try some? Yeah? I don't do 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.600 that on beer tours, I'll sample that. You mean. I 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.000 went to the Maker's mark distillery. Oh did you dip 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:33.960 your own bottle? Yes? No, yes, we definitely have one, 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:35.640 but I don't remember if we. I guess we did 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.320 dip it. Yeah, I think that's a thing. But it 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.440 was like a mini, so maybe not. Maybe we bought 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.159 a mini that was like just a mini to commemorate it, 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:44.760 and they made you buy like a fifth or something 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:46.880 and dip your own bottle and we're like, ma, got 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.200 it's fine, because we we'd be like we would want 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.760 to open it. Yeah, we didn't dip our own body forgot. 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:56.960 That was exactly the conversation we had. Wow, you guys 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:58.720 put a lot of thought into that one. Anyway, it's 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:00.839 a pretty cool tour, to tell you the truth. I 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.200 strongly recommended. I've never done a distillery. I'd like to 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:06.279 do that. There's there's a new one here in Atlanta, 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:11.080 in Avondale Whiskey Distillery. Well, I can tell you go 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.559 on any whiskey tour and you will find what Mila 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.719 Kunis is talking about with the angels share stuff. It's 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:23.440 a real thing. The evaporating whiskey fills the um whatever 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:27.080 the place where they're aging em barrels, and it's actually 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.400 really dangerous, like the place could blow up at any 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:33.760 time because like very much so, we're a sugar factor, right, um. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.480 But the smell is one of the most amazing smells 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.120 I've ever experienced in my entire life, like smell good 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:46.719 or just weird great, Like the the half of a 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:51.800 percent of whiskey that is just glorious. It's in the air. 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:58.159 It's amazing. Oh man, that I'm thirsty, all right, So 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:02.159 let's talk pez um in two thousand eleven. This is 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.400 something I didn't know. There was a wedding while I 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.960 didn't know this part um in the United Kingdom between 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.520 a guy named William and a little lady named Kate 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:15.840 Waity Katie? Do people call her that? Some? Some people did, 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.360 what like that she's overweight? No? No, that she waited around? 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:25.240 Oh okay? It was like, man, how mean can people get? Yeah? 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:30.320 That would So they made um specialty pez dispensers out 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:34.280 of Prince William and Kate for that and they were expensive, 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.880 three d sixty dollars at a charity auction. Clearly that's 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.640 the most expensive Pezz dispenser ever sold. Not so, my friend, 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:45.960 what supposedly that is the thirty two thousand dollars in 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.600 two thousand and six for an astronaut limited edition Astronaut 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:53.360 themed It was from the two World's Fair and there 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.560 were two of them too in existence. Yeah, that's why 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:00.640 it's expensive. And what's neat is that that's that was 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.200 That auction took place on eBay, which is very appropriate 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:08.120 that Peest dispensers are sold on eBay because the guy 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:12.800 who founded eBay, what's his name, Pierre Um, Pierre R. Right, 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:17.160 He Um founded eBay and party he was inspired to 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.760 found eBay because his girlfriend at the time I think 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:24.400 his wife is his wife now um collected pez and 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.200 he thought, hey, this would be a really great We 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.240 may not have eBay today if it weren't for petz 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:32.160 peest dispensers electing peest dispensers, which is a relatively new thing. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.720 It really took off in the eighties late eighties. Actually 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.360 it wasn't until the late eighties that people really started 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:42.800 collecting peest dispensers. And now I felt, you know, the 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.120 tweete Bird episode. I had to go back and look 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.839 it up. But once I did, I started to remember, Yeah, 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.599 I think Elaine and Jerry and George Ritta George's girlfriend's 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.720 piano recital, and Jerry put the tweetie Bird pest dispenser 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.640 on this laper on Elane's lap, and Elaine started laughing, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.400 ruined the performance, and then she was later outed when 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.360 she laughed again in front of that lady, right, And 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.960 then the tweety bird um Pez dispenser also factored into 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.120 the plot because Jerry and his friends had an intervention 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:16.320 for another friend who had a drug problem and he 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.400 was resisting resisting, and then for some reason Jerry brought 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.080 out the Pets dispenser. In the wave of nostalgia that 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.760 washed over this guy caused him to admit that he 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.400 had a drug problem, but then he became hooked on pest. 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.920 Well in nostalgia figures in a lot, Uh, it really does. 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.679 Kids from the well, kids of all ages grew up 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.800 with pez kids of all ages? What am I circus announcer? 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:40.839 Step on up? What do they call? I was gonna say, 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:45.040 circus ring master, circus barker. Well, there's two different Those 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.760 are two different things. I think unless you're in like 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.480 a low budget carnival, then it's maybe the same thing. Yeah, 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.480 that's I would be. But the barkers, the one who's like, 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.000 step on up, well, guess your weight, the people he's 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.319 trying to get people to come in. The ring masters, 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.360 the one who's like running the show once the show starts. 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.840 I feel like i'd be the barker. Would you need 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:06.679 to be the ringmaster? You'd have to wear a straw 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.840 boater hat and like striped suits. Yeah, I'd be the barker, 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.760 and you'd be the guy that like swings from things 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:19.960 with his teeth, strong teeth as opposed to my little 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.640 weak teeth when I fell off and there's some of 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:26.079 my teeth jammed into the trapeze bar. Still, well, you 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.440 like a Loonington's cartoon, now, yeah, but imagine it in 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:34.319 reality even worse it is. Uh, I feel like we 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:38.560 should take a break and regain our composure. All right, 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:56.000 we'll be back right after this. All right, so we're back, 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.440 and I think we should uh start in the traditional 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:02.959 way that when we handle our culture casts and talk 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.319 about history, because well though I thought it was a 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:10.880 pretty interesting history. Actually, yeah, I love this article. Edward 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:15.640 Hass the third he was an Austrian. Um he was 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.160 He made sweets. He was a confection ere. Well, his 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.720 family was in the grocery business, and he was successful 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.360 in that. But yeah, his heart was in candy like yours. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.960 His heart was in candy. It was also in hygiene. 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.800 I get the impression that he was very strong germophobe. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.440 Well it's probably good when you're running a candy factory. Yes, 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.960 you know. He was also anti smoking, and he decided 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.080 he went to a chemist, uh pharmacist, and said, hey, 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:48.280 give me some really strong pepperman essence. And he used 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.040 that with some sugar and made mints, basically a proto 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:56.320 altoid um, and put him in little tins and marketed 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.640 him as quitting smoking or smoking cessation a. Basically, if 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.280 you're trying to quit, you needed something to put in 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.640 your mouth, just chew one of these Pez mints. That's right. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.280 And he got the name Pez from the abbreviation the 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.679 German word for peppermint, which is uh. It starts with 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:18.000 three consonants, which is always fun. Come on, you took German, 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.439 you know Germany? Well, I mean I would just say, uh, 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:27.600 fefa mints. I would say, I like that better. That 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.640 sounds like the remix version. But it does start with 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.400 two p's and an F. But shorten that and take 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.160 out letters from the beginning, middle, and end and you 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:41.760 get peasy. So uh, like you said, he said, you 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.880 can either use this to try and quit smoking as 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.199 a sort of an early version of nicarett gum, even 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.520 though I had no nicotine in it that we know of, 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.440 Or you can use it if you do smoke, to 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.280 make your breath fresh, because no one wants to smell 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:00.920 you stinky smokers. Uh. And we'll see, well, will wrap 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:02.920 them up in like a little candy bar at first, 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:05.439 and that's how we sold him for like a year. 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.880 Well yes, um, they were also sold in tins, right, 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.760 and he invent in PEZ and that's when they first 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.280 set the market. Um. But again I get the impression 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.520 that he was a germophobe and he didn't want everybody 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.480 to put their grubby hands into the same Pez tint 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.520 and touch the other ones that other people were putting 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.960 in their mouths. And he probably imagined all the poop 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:32.520 and bacteria and who knows what on those people's hands, 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.559 sausage touching his beloved Pez. So we thought there has 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:40.000 to be a better way to dispense Pez. We need 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:44.400 some sort of I don't know, PEZ dispenser, that's right. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.000 And so there was an employee at his company, Oscar Uxa, 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:53.480 and you know what Oxcar Uxa does. He's a dispenser genius. 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.200 And he says, hey, how about this, Why don't we 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.360 make a dispenser that looks like a cigarette lighter because 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.320 this is his first smoking and I'll have a little 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:06.240 contraption on here that kicker that'll spit out one at 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:11.760 a time. And he said it's genius. Right. Edward Hoss 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.600 kicked the Kleenex boxes off of his feet and stood 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.959 up and hugged oscar Oosa. Yeah. And by the way, 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.280 they're selling them in tens again now in Peppermint with 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:26.120 a little throwback retro looking um. One of the Pez 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:30.600 ladies Pez girls. Yeah, the Pez girls, which were supposedly 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.040 like this very sexy thing to sell Pez. Did you 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.080 see them? Yeah? They look like bell hops. Oh yeah, 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.080 they're they're basically drawn like pin up girls, except not 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.760 nearly as racy. Um. And they have a little bell 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.000 boy hats. Sure a lot of them did. Um. And 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.600 they went from the forties, I think, all the way 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.880 up until the early eighties they used Pez girls to 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.000 market Pez. Do you know what they reminded me of 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.880 was um back in the day when you would have 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.640 like be at a club and a and a woman 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.560 would come around, see yeah, stick it ahead. Yeah. They 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:02.680 would have a little tray around that was hung around 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:06.520 their neck with cigars and cigarettes and mints and uh, 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.480 who knows what else Pez. I guess Pez. I guarantee 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.800 you Pez was in there. You're probably right. So um. 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:17.000 So they were a hit among adults in Europe big times. Yeah, 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.400 they did. They did the trick. The Yeah, they were 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.840 already pretty popular. But when once they packaged them into 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:28.160 these um cigarette lighter dispensers, like they really cemented themselves 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:31.920 as like iconic candy. People say, look, you just pop 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:33.800 it open and then candy comes out and you put 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:38.800 your teeth on. It's right, it's wonderful pop off. So 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.360 they went they went nuts for the stuff. And then 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.400 he said, you know what, let me expand the United 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:47.800 States is where it's at. Two. Uh. He found out 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:52.320 that kids in America, we're delighted over this because I 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.240 guess kids in America were like adults in Europe at 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.600 the time, um, and they'd love the way these things 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:00.960 popped out, plus and power dobably made them feel a 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.800 lot like they were smoking. You think probably I never 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.120 got the tie to the lighter. It was completely lost 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:11.520 on me. So you like flick a lighter. We got 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.160 it now, But I never had made that association until 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.280 I knew this. Okay, so imagine a Peest dispenser without 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:21.760 the head. Oh yeah, that's what the original. Can imagine 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:23.600 that because I used to take the heads off my Okay, 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:27.000 all right, but so that's the original Peest dispensers, which 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.960 are called regulars now the first one before they started 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.800 adding heads very much resembled like a nice slim lighter. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.520 So if you're a kid like this kind of thing, 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.680 like there's a there's the manual thing where you're flicking 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.880 a lighter. Then there's the oral fixation that's satisfied by 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.800 putting the mint into your mouth, and it's mimicking smoking, 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.920 which is one of the reasons why it was one 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.120 of the ways it was marketed. The idea was that 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.480 it would it would alleviate that desire for those those 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.480 Freudian fixations that you had when you were a smoker, 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.280 if you were trying to quit, if you're a little 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.360 kid and you wanted to smoke, but you just couldn't 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.359 get your hands and cigarettes yet a good way to 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:09.320 do this didn't have arms right in the fifties, Yeah, probably. 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:11.720 I saw candy cigarettes the other day in the store. 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.840 By the way, I thought those were they make this? Yeah, 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.680 I thought they were completely gone. Okay, if you want 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.960 to know a candy that I think is abhorrent and disgusting, 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:25.200 candy cigarettes. Gum cigarettes are awesome. Do you remember those 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.600 the kind where you puff them? Oh, those are great. 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.679 The candy cigarettes, they're just like sticks of candy that 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.080 are disgusting. No, I'm talking about the gum that would 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:37.520 blow out face smoke. I love that they still make those. 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:41.720 But the gum cigars, I think we're gross. They have 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.480 some weird chemical taste to them. I never saw that 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.960 they were not one and the same, which is surprising. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.040 And they still make those, and they still make big 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.560 league chew yes like it's it's amazing that they can, still, 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:57.240 like with good conscience, market tobacco products to children, and 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:01.000 that they're allowed to. I remember um probably the greatest 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:07.720 tasting gum of all time, big red No. No, it 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:14.480 was a Rambo gum that was sold to commemorate Rambo three. Yeah. No, 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.720 it had like a It was marketed as like black 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.520 raspberry or something like that, but it didn't taste like 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.919 that at all. It had it. I've never tasted anything like, 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.800 you know, usually like you run into a taste years later, 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.560 like there's only ten tastes or ten cents, you know. Um, 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.439 this was I've never experienced it before after and it 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.000 was the best tasting gum ever. But it was in 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:37.480 the big League chew pouch and it was big league 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.440 t shirts, so clearly It was made by the same 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.640 company for the makers of Rambo, but the flavor they 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.000 used was perfect sweat and gunpowder and you could get 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.359 it for like one summer. What did it have a 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.119 cartoon version of of stallone on it? No, it was 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.879 a photo of him with like the very famous rocket 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:58.879 launcher from Rambo three um and uh it was just 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:02.879 a picture of it on the Big League two pouch. Yeah, 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:05.480 and I loved it. I guess they had to market 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.200 it that way because first blood gum didn't go over 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:12.399 so well. Exactly tastes just like blood. Uh Man, I'm 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:14.159 wondering all kinds of things. Well, hold on, hold on, 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:17.560 we're getting ahead of ourselves. Oh no, we're getting super distracted. 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:22.480 That's what it is. In the fifties, kids very surprisingly 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.800 liked Pez but they were like, this is pretty strong mint. 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.720 And I'm a little kid, sure like fruity flavored stuff. Yeah, 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.400 I like the dispenser, but gonna get your game going 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.760 with the candy exactly, And and Hass and company listen 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.719 big time. So they kept Mint Pez still, but they 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:44.919 started releasing lines of of fruit flavored ones and kola. 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:49.880 They had one called Chlorophyll Coffee flavored a yogurt one 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.480 that probably was just European. What is the chlorophyll? I 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.560 couldn't get a read on what that was like um, 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.440 and I looked. I think it's like a UM, it's 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:02.439 a mint. It's a definitely in flavor. Um. Did they 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.960 just use the wrong word. There's another There's a gum 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:08.760 out there that has a similar sounding names. It's just 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:12.439 like a very bright like mint, not peppermint. It's not 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:18.080 as sweet. It's mintier um. But yeah, chlorophyll is interesting. 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.119 But they had other stuff too, like orange and I 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:25.119 think cherry maybe something like that. Traditional flavors, but not peach. 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:28.240 There's a fun trivia effect for you. They have had 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:31.320 peach flavors, but it was never released in the US. Yeah, 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.479 I'm a weirdo. I don't like peach flavors or peaches. 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.720 So since they realized that kids are going bonkers for 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:40.439 this candy, UM, which bonkers, that was another good candy too. 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:42.560 I don't know what that is. It came out in 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:47.240 the eighties. It was great. UM. They they decided to 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.399 try to make pez a little more parent friendly because 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:53.399 even back in the fifties, I think parents were like, 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:55.560 I don't want you teaching my kid to smoke with 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:58.160 this candy. So they said, well, let's change it from 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:02.160 a cigarette lighter into something different, a toy, and we'll 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:06.800 add like a beloved cartoon character on there. How about that? 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:09.600 And it was genius because what he did was he 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:13.320 combined candy with a toy, uh, and not only a toy, 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:16.960 but a collectible, and it was it was genius for kids. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:20.040 That was all they needed. Um, they were pretty cheap 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:22.879 and so kids could buy them. They could like go 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.959 around and probably finding money on the ground in a 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:28.239 given day to go buy a little pet dispenser, right, 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:32.840 or build like a like a soapbox racer and sell 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:35.040 it to the rich kid in the neighborhood, buy a 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:39.720 bunch of pez did you fund Yeah, that's another thing too. 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:43.320 I didn't like the the stick that you had to lick, 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:47.639 but the sugar was just great. So the sugar stick 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:51.080 that you dipped into the sugar, the sugar stick didn't 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:53.359 have enough flavor for me. Yeah, it just I was 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:54.960 thinking about fund it the other day when I was 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:57.240 driving for some reason. It was just remarkable to me 0:21:57.280 --> 0:21:59.600 that they would just make a sugar stick that you 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:02.119 dip in different flavors of sugar and you would then 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:03.800 eat the sugar off the stick and then eat the 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:06.200 sugars right. Well, they they didn't even try back then. 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:10.080 Like it's like smacks used to be called sugar smacks, 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:12.399 and then they changed to the honey smacks, and they're like, 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:15.080 let's just go with smacks. That wasn't just called smacks, 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:17.680 I believe. So it's not sugar smacks. No, it hasn't 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:20.560 been sugar smacks for years. I don't need much cereal. 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:23.080 Like they would get chased out of the grocery aisle 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:25.040 whenever they tried to restock that if they still call 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:28.040 it sugar smacks. I just don't mess with Captain Crunch. 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:30.320 Peanut butter, that's all I gotta say. Captain Crunch has 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:32.000 one out now. I saw on the cereal all the 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:36.760 other day. It's sprinkled donuts Captain Crunch, and it looks awesome. Yeah. 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:38.880 I just the peanut butter is so good. Even though 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:41.240 it tears of the roof of your mouth, it's worth it. 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:45.000 But that's a fatal flaw, don't you think not to me? Ali, 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:47.159 I'll get a box of that, like every three or 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:49.440 four years. I'll get a box of that, like when 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:53.760 Emily's out of town dinner time, because if she would 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:55.480