WEBVTT - SYSK Selects: How Pez Works 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:03.280 Hello, friends. I hope you're enjoying your Saturday, and you're 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.480 gonna enjoy it a little bit more if you listen 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.320 to this Stuff you should Know. Select episode from October 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:12.480 two thousand fifteen, How Pez Works. I love these pop 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:19.880 culture episodes. Everyone Pez. Welcome to Stuff you Should Know, 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:28.840 A production of I Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey, 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.720 and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.440 Chuck Bryant, there's guest producer Noel And this is stuff 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:43.400 you should have to do. The peas at nice. I 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:47.640 like that another Null cast as well. Yeah, pretty exciting. 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:50.920 It's part of the Null spint. We then old stint. 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:56.440 We're gonna fell it. Uh. Do you like pest? I 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.040 like Pez? Do you like the candy? I? Do you 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.840 like to taste? I like the taste of Pez. Yes. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.960 Describe to me what happens when you can put a 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.520 candy has candy in your mouth? Well, I put a 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:11.160 PEZ candy, I pull the head back, the kicker kicks 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:15.960 it out. Pop. Yes, it's nice, and I take it 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.040 from the Pez dispenser with my tooth. Oh you don't 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:22.520 really you'd like go mouth the mouth with it? Sure? 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:28.960 Well tooth tooth to kicker, okay uh and then I, um, yeah, 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.000 what do you do? Use your hand? Well, I don't 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.600 eat PEZ, but back when I was eight, I would 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:37.240 be delighted when I would pull the head back the 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.360 little candy with chewed out. Now pick it out with 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.600 my hand, put in my mouth. Yeah, I use my teeth. Interesting, 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:44.480 I would feel like I was like going into to 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:46.760 make out with a daffy duck or something. If I 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:54.800 did that, Oh, let's half the fun. Oh oh boy. Anyway, 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.640 I don't care for the candy though, I wasn't done 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.600 describing PEZ. Go ahead, sorry, And then I take it 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.840 onto my tongue right, and I start to savor the 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:09.400 flavor of it. Typically I prefer maybe um, well, definitely 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.240 one of the fruit flavors. I've never had a mint 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.880 PEZ or chocolate pets, which is new. I would try 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.800 the chocolate one, but say, like orange, We'll just go 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:22.919 with orange. I'm sitting there. I let it sit on 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.200 my tongue for all of like six nano seconds, and 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.400 then I started to bite into it, and it's very 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.720 much like um. This explains why I like pets, especially 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:38.360 orange pests. And once eight almost an entire bottle of 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:43.680 orange flavored baby aspirin for the taste. That's why I 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.400 like pests. How old were you then, would be a kid? 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.880 It was like twenty something, Yes, I was a kid. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.720 Well did you what did it hurt? You know, nothing 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.200 happened to me. We talked about that before. It feels 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.320 like because they aren't even it isn't even medicine. I 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.520 wonder it's just a placebo. But how could you use 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:04.880 a placebo and a little kid? I mean, I guess 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.120 it work, but certainly there's an age where they're just 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.840 like I feel like half of parenting is probably placebo. Probably, 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.760 well you would know now, well not yet, Well let 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.160 me know she doesn't believe my lies yet. That will 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.040 come later. Yeah, I mean, I'm surely kids are pretty dumb, 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.320 so you can get them to believe anything. Sure, but 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.160 there seems like there would be an age where they 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.760 wouldn't They wouldn't make that connection, and a placebo wouldn't work. 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.320 I don't think of placebo would work, like say, from birth, 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:36.800 And I don't remember what age you can start giving 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:42.200 kids baby aspirin. Baby, I don't even children aspirin anyway. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.040 I like pez I like how it tastes. I like 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.000 the experience of eating a pets, all right. I don't 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.200 care for pets. I also like the shape the brick, 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:55.640 the brick that it helps with the taste. I saw 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.160 we did the l a podcast pest this last weekend, 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.560 and I can't remember her name, but very nice young 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.280 lady brought us some different candies and things. The Lego candies. Well, 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:05.880 you jumped on that bag. It's like, you want these 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.080 lego brick candies and you're like, yeah, give me a 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.600 second time, man. I love those things. Yeah, And that's 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.280 sort of this. I put those on in the same category, 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:19.479 which is just like compressed sugar right in like a 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.560 brick form. As a matter of fact, it turns out 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:27.080 the Pez company to the state, uses about fifty thousand 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.360 pounds of sugar every four days making its Pez candies. 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.520 That's right. And here's a factoid for you, all right. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.480 It takes three thousand pounds of pressure to compress the 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:42.480 Pez ingredients, which is not just sugar into the delightful, tiny, 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.480 disgusting brick that you love. I don't think it's disgusting. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.960 I don't like candies. I have another one for you. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.880 They make twelve million tablets a day at their Orange, 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:59.360 Connecticut facility, the headquarters of Pets, and three billion PEZ 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.960 bricks are consumed in the US alone each year by 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:07.040 people like me who like Pez. Yes, roughly twelve at 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:11.080 a time, because that's how much the standard dispenser holds. 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.160 And if this kind of thing floats your boat right now, 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.880 go check out how Stuff works brain Stuff series on YouTube, 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.800 and specifically look up the one on pop rocks that 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.440 I did a year or two ago. It was really 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:26.400 interesting stuff. Candy manufacturing is fascinating. I don't care what 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.200 you say. No, I like manufacturing processes. I just don't 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.080 like to eat candy. I got you. You know what 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.560 I mean? You just go to the plant watch it 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.359 made and then turn down the free samples like no, 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.760 thank you. I find that disgust. They're like, now, would 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.240 you like to try some? Yeah? I don't do that. 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:43.479 On beer tours, I'll sample that. You mean, I went 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.840 to the maker's mark distillery. Oh, did you dip your 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:51.680 own bottle? Yes? No, yes, we definitely have one, but 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:53.960 I don't remember if we. I guess we did dip it. Yeah, 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:55.560 I think that's a thing. But it was like a mini, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.919 so maybe not. Maybe we bought a mini that was 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.040 like just a man need to commemorate it, and they 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:02.719 made you buy like a fifth or something and dip 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.400 your own bottle. And we're like, man, it's fine because 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.560 we'd we'd be like, we would want to open it that. Yeah, 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.359 we didn't dip our own. Body forgot. That was exactly 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.880 the conversation we had. Wow, you guys to put a 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.760 lot of thought into that one. Anyway, it's a pretty 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.400 cool tour, to tell you the truth. I strongly recommended. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.160 I've never done a distillery. I'd like to do that. 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:27.800 There's there's a new one here in Atlanta, Avandale Whiskey Distillery. Well, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.600 I can tell you go on any whiskey tour and 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.479 you will find what Mila Kunis is talking about with 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.640 the angels share stuff. It's a real thing. The evaporating 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:42.680 whiskey fills the um whatever the place where they're aging 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:45.920 em barrels, and it's actually really dangerous, like the place 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.279 could blow up at any time because like very much so. 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.880 We're a sugar factor, right, um. But the smell is 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.240 one of the most amazing smells I've ever experienced in 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.960 my entire life, like smell good or just weird good 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:05.280 great eat like the the half of a percent of 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:10.000 whiskey that is just glorious. It's in the air, right, 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:15.800 it's amazing. Oh man, now I'm thirsty. All right, So 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.680 let's talk pez Um. In two thousand and eleven, this 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.000 is something I didn't know. There was a wedding while 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.160 I didn't know this part um in the United Kingdom 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.880 between a guy named William and a little lady named 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:32.880 Kate Waity Katie? Do people call her that? Some? Some 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.040 people did? What like that she's overweight? No? No, that 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:40.000 she waited around? Oh okay, it's like, man, how mean 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:45.600 can people get? Yeah? That would be. So they made 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.000 um specialty pez dispensers out of Prince William and Kate 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:54.040 for that, and they were expensive, three sixty dollars at 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.400 a charity auction. Clearly that's the most expensive pez dispenser 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:01.680 ever sold. Not so, my friend, what uh? Supposedly that 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.240 is the thirty two thousand dollars in two thousand and 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.000 six for an astronaut limited edition Astronaut deemed It was 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.480 from the two World's Fair and there were two of 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:15.200 them too in existence. Yeah, that's why it's expensive. And 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:19.000 what's neat is that that's that Um was that auction 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.720 took place on eBay, which is very appropriate that peest 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:27.200 dispenses are sold on eBay because the guy who founded eBay, 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:32.080 what's his name, Pierre Um, Pierre r Right, He Um 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.679 founded eBay and party. He was inspired to found eBay 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.040 because his girlfriend at the time, I think his wife 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.680 is his wife. Now, Um collected PEZ and he thought, hey, 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.360 this would be a really great We may not have 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.520 eBay today if it weren't for Pez peest dispensers electing 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.600 peest dispensers, which is a relatively new thing. It really 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.800 took off in the eighties, late eighties. Actually, it wasn't 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.319 until the late eighties that people really started collecting peest dispensers. 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.480 And now I felt you of the Tweetie Bird episode. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.160 I had to go back and look it up. But 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.760 once I did, I started to remember, Yeah, I think 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:10.280 Elaine and Jerry and George Ritta George's girlfriend's piano recital, 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.199 and Jerry put the Tweetie Bird pest dispenser on his 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:18.000 lap or on Elane's lap, and Elaine started laughing, ruined 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.120 the performance, and then she was later outed when she 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.160 laughed again in front of that lady right, and then 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.720 the Tweetie bird um Pez Dispenser also factored into the 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:30.720 plot because Jerry and his friends had an intervention for 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:35.240 another friend who had a drug problem and he was resisting, resisting, 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.480 and then for some reason, Jerry brought out the Pets 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.520 dispenser in the wave of nostalgia that washed over this 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.360 guy caused him to admit that he had a drug problem, 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.280 but then he became hooked on pest. Well in nostalgia 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.120 figures in a lot. Uh, it really does. Kids from 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.760 the well, kids of all ages grew up with pez 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:56.760 kids of all ages? What am my circus announcer? Step 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.480 all on up? What do they calls? I was gonna say, 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.920 circus himself, Barker, ring master, your circus Barker. Well, there's 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.920 two different Those are two different things. I think unless 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.920 you're in like a low budget carnival, then it's maybe 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.439 the same thing. Yeah, that's I would be. But the 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.160 Barker is the one who's like, step on up, we'll 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.360 guess your weight. The people he's trying to get people 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.480 to come in. The ring master is the one who's 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.360 like running the show. Once the show starts, I feel 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.640 like I'd be the barker. Would you need to be 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.640 the ring master. You'd have to wear a straw boater 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.480 hat and like striped suits. Yeah, I'd be the barker, 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.400 and you'd be the guy that like swings from things 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:36.560 with his teeth. Do strong teeth as opposed to my 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.440 little when I fell off and there's some of my 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.920 teeth jammed into the trapeze bar. Still, well, you like 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:47.719 a Loonington's cartoon now, yeah, but imagine it in reality 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:52.240 even worse it is. Uh, I feel like we should 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:56.400 take a break and regain our composure. All right, we'll 0:10:56.400 --> 0:11:27.000 be back right after this. All right, So we're back, 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.440 and I think we should uh start in the traditional 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:33.360 way that when we handle our pop culture casts and 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:37.360 talk about history, because well I thought it was a 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:41.920 pretty interesting history. Actually, yeah, I'd love this article. Eduard 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:46.640 Hass the third he was an Austrian. Um he was 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.160 he made sweets. He was a confection ere. Well, his 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.680 family was in the grocery business and he was successful 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.360 in that. But yeah, his heart was in candy like yours. 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.920 His heart was in candy. It was also in hygiene. 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.800 I get the impression that he was very strong germophobe. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.440 Well it's probably good when you're running a candy factory. Yes, 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.960 you know. He was also anti smoking, and he decided 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:15.080 he went to a chemist, uh, pharmacist, and said, hey, 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:19.280 give me some really strong peppermint essence. And he used 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.040 that with some sugar and made mints basically a proto 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:27.320 altoid um, and put him in little tins and marketed 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:31.640 them as quitting smoking or smoking cessation aids. Basically, if 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:33.280 you're trying to quit, you needed something to put in 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.640 your mouth, just chew one of these pez mints. That's right. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:40.280 And he got the name Pez from the abbreviation the 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.679 German word for peppermint, which is uh. It starts with 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:49.000 three consonants, which is always fun. Come on, you took German, 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.400 you know Germany. Well, I mean I would just say, uh, 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:58.600 fefa mints. I would say, I like that better. That 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.640 sounds like the remix version. But it does start with 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.400 two p's in an F, but shorten that and take 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.120 out letters from the beginning, middle, and end and you 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:12.760 get peasy. So uh, like you said, he said, you 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.880 can either use this to try and quit smoking as 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:19.199 a sort of an early version of Nicarett gum, even 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.520 though I had no nicotine in it that we know of. 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.440 Or you can use it if you do smoke, to 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.240 make your breath fresh, because no one wants to smell 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:31.920 you stinky smokers. Uh. And we'll see, we'll we'll wrap 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:33.920 them up in like a little candy bar at first, 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.480 and that's how we sold him for like a year. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.880 Well yes, um, they were also sold in tins, right, 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.959 and he invented Pez and that's when they first set 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.400 the market. Um. But again I get the impression that 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.640 he was a germophobe and he didn't want everybody to 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:54.280 put their grubby hands into the same Pez tint and 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.559 touch the other ones that other people were putting in 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.080 their mouths. And he probably imagined all the poop and 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:04.320 bacteria who knows what on those people's hands German sausage 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.680 touching his beloved Pez. So we thought there has to 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.200 be a better way to dispense Pez. We need some 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:15.560 sort of I don't know, Pez dispenser, that's right. And 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.440 so there was an employee of his company, oscar Uxa, 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:24.440 And you know what Oxcar Uxa does he's a dispenser genius. 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.200 And he says, hey, how about this, Why don't we 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.360 make a dispenser that looks like a cigarette lighter, because 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.320 this is for smoking conson And I'll have a little 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:37.240 contraption on here, that kicker that'll spit out one at 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:42.760 a time. And he said it's genius, right. Edward Hoss 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.600 kicked the Kleenex boxes off of his feet and stood 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.960 up and hugged oscar Usa. Yeah. And by the way, 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:52.280 they're selling them in tens again now in Peppermint with 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:57.120 a little throwback retro looking um. One of the Pez 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:01.920 ladies girls. Yeah, the Pez girls, which were supposedly like 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.200 this very sexy thing to sell Pez. Did you see them? Yeah, 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.160 they look like bell hops. Oh yeah, they're They're basically 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:12.000 drawn like pin up girls, except not nearly as racy. Um. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.080 And they had a little bell boy hats. Sure a 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.800 lot of them did. Um. And they went from the forties, 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:19.800 I think, all the way up until the early eighties 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.120 they used Pez girls to market Pez. You know what 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.080 they reminded me of was um back in the day 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.800 when you would have like be at a club and 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.360 a and a woman would come around. Yeah, cigarettes Yeah, 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.400 they would have a little tray around that was hung 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:37.520 around their neck with cigars and cigarettes and mints and uh, 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:41.480 who knows what else. Pez. I guess Pez. I guarantee 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.800 you Pez was in there. You're probably right. So um, 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.760 so they were a hit among adults in Europe big times. 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.280 Yeah they did. They did the trick the Yeah, they 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.520 were already pretty popular. But when once they packaged them 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:58.600 into these um cigarette lighter dispensers, like they really cemented 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.680 themselves as like iconic candy. People say, look, you just 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.600 pop it open and the candy comes out and you 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:08.520 put your teeth on it. It's right, it's wonderful pop off. 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.240 So they went, they went nuts for the stuff. And 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.040 then he said, you know what, let me expand the 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:18.760 United States is where it's at. Uh. He found out 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:23.320 that kids in America. We're delighted over this because I 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.240 guess kids in America were like adults in Europe at 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.600 the time. Um, and they love the way these things 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.160 popped out. Plus it probably made them feel a lot 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:36.080 like they were smoking. You think, probably I never got 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.440 the tie to the lighter. It was completely lost on me. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.000 So you like flick a lighter? I got it now, 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.000 but I never had made that association until I knew this. Okay, 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:50.720 so imagine a Peest dispenser without the head. Oh yeah, 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.360 that's what the original. Can imagine that because I used 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.520 to take the heads off my okay, all right, but 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:59.120 so that's the original peest dispensers, which are called regulars now. 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.280 The first before they started adding heads, very much resembled 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.760 like a nice slim lighter. So if you're a kid 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.120 like this kind of thing, like there's a there's the 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.679 manual thing where you're flicking a lighter. Then there's the 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.680 oral fixation that's satisfied by putting the mint into your mouth, 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.960 and it's mimicking smoking, which is one of the reasons 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.000 why it was one of the ways it was marketed. 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.879 The idea was that it would it would alleviate that 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.720 desire for those those Freudian fixations that you had when 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:30.560 you were a smoker, if you were trying to quit, 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.520 if you're a little kid and you wanted to smoke 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.640 but you just couldn't get your hands, and cigarettes yet 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.440 a good way to do that. I didn't have arms, right, 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:42.040 but in the fifties, yeah, probably, I saw candy cigarettes 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:43.159 the other day in the store. By the way, I 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.080 thought those work. Believe they make this, Yeah, I thought 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.959 they were completely gone. Okay, if you want to know 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:52.600 a candy that I think is abhorrent and disgusting, candy cigarettes. 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.720 Gum cigarettes are awesome. Do you remember those, the kind 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:01.000 where you puff them? Oh, those are great. The candy cigarettes, 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.680 they're just like sticks of candy that are disgusting. No, 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.439 I'm talking about the gum that would blow out fist smoke. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:10.840 I love that they still make those. But the gum cigars, 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:14.240 I think we're gross. They have some weird chemical taste 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.040 to them. I never saw that they were not one 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.240 and the same, which is surprising. And they still make those, 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.920 and they still make big league chew yes like it's 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.480 it's amazing that they can, still, like with good conscience, 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.040 market tobacco products to children, and that they're allowed to. 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:34.000 I remember um probably the greatest tasting gum of all time, 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:41.000 Big Red No. No, it was a Rambo gum that 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:45.960 was sold to commemorate Rambo three. Yeah. No, it had 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:49.520 like a It was marketed as like black raspberry or 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:52.080 something like that, but it didn't taste like that at all. 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.720 It had I've never tasted anything like you know, usually 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.200 like you run into a taste years later, like there's 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.760 only ten tastes or ten cents, you know. Um, this 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.600 was I've never experienced it before after and it was 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.119 the best tasting gum ever. But it was in the 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.960 big league chew pouch and it was big league to shreds, 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.000 So clearly it was made by the same company for 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:14.359 the makers of Rambo. But the flavor they used was 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.199 perfect sweat and gunpowder and you could get it for 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:20.160 like one summer. What did it have a cartoon version 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:22.680 of of stallone on it? No, it was a photo 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:26.000 of him with like the very famous rocket launcher okay, 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.760 the rocket from Rambo three um, and uh it was 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:33.879 just a picture of it on the big League two pouch. Yeah, 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.480 and I loved it. I guess they had to market 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.200 it that way because first blood gum didn't go over 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:43.399 so well. Exactly tastes just like blood. Uh man, I'm 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.159 wondering all kinds of things. Well, hold on, hold on, 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.520 we're getting ahead of ourselves. Oh no, we're getting super distracted. 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:53.480 That's what it is. In the fifties, kids very surprisingly 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:57.800 liked pez but they were like this is pretty strong mint. 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.720 And I'm a little kid sure like fruity flavor and stuff. Yeah, 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.400 I like the dispenser, but gonna get your game going 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.760 with the candy exactly, and and Hass and company listen 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:10.719 big time. So they kept mint pez still, but they 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:16.119 started releasing lines of of fruit flavored ones and cola. 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:20.880 They had one called chlorophyll coffee flavored, a yogurt one 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:23.520 that probably was just European. What is the chlorophyll? I 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:26.600 couldn't get a read on what that was like. Um, 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:29.440 and I looked. I think it's like a um, it's 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:33.439 a mint. It's a definitely mint flavor. Um. Did they 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.960 just use the wrong word. There's another there's a gum 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:39.760 out there that has a similar sounding names. It's just 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:43.439 like a very bright like mint, not peppermint. It's not 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:49.080 as sweet. It's mintier. Um. But yeah, chlorophyll is interesting. 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:52.119 But they had other stuff too, like orange and I 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:56.119 think cherry maybe something like that traditional flavors, but not peach. 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:59.240 There's a fun trivia effect for you. They have had 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:02.359 peach flavor, but it was never released in the US. Yeah, 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:04.479 I'm a weirdo. I don't like peach flavors or peaches. 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:07.720 So since they realized that kids are going bonkers for 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:11.480 this candy. Um with bonkers. That was another good candy too, 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:13.479 But I don't know what that is. It came out 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:18.120 in the eighties. It was great. Um. They they decided 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:21.639 to try to make Petz a little more parent friendly 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:24.399 because even back in the fifties, I think parents were like, 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:26.560 I don't want you teaching my kid to smoke with 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.119 this candy. So they said, well, let's change it from 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:33.160 a cigarette lighter into something different, a toy, and we'll 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:37.760 add like a beloved cartoon character on there. How about that? 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:40.240 And that's fine. It was genius because what he did 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:43.760 was he combined candy with a toy, uh, and not 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.960 only a toy, but a collectible and it was it 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:49.920 was genius for kids. That was all they needed. Um. 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:53.080 They were pretty cheap and so kids could buy them. 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:55.639 They could like go around and probably finding money on 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:58.040 the ground in a given day to go buy a 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:02.080 little pet dispenser, right, or build like, uh, like a 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:04.800 soapbox racer and sell it to the rich kid in 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:10.040 the neighborhood buy a bunch of pez did. Yeah, that's 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:13.639 another thing too. I didn't like the the stick that 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:16.919 you had to lick, but the sugar was just great. 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:20.159 So the sugar stick that you dipped into the sugar, 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:23.480 the sugar stick didn't have enough flavor for me. Yeah, 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:25.440 it just I was thinking about fund it the other 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:27.240 day when I was driving for some reason. It was 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:29.600 just remarkable to me that they would just make a 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:32.200 sugar stick that you dip in different flavors of sugar, 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:34.320 and you would then eat the sugar off the stick 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:36.320 and then eat the sugars right. Well, they they didn't 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:39.480 even try back then. Like it's like that smacks used 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:42.399 to be called sugar smacks, and then they changed to 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:44.520 the honey smacks and they're like, let's just go with smacks. 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:47.359 That wasn't just called smacks, I believe. So it's not 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:49.960 sugar smacks. No, it hasn't been sugar smacks for years. 0:22:50.600 --> 0:22:53.160 I don't need much cereal. Like they would get chased 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:55.359 out of the grocery I whenever they tried to restock that. 0:22:55.440 --> 0:22:58.160 If they still call it sugar smacks, I just don't 0:22:58.160 --> 0:22:59.959 mess with Captain Crunch peanut butter. That's all I got 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:02.160 to say. Captain Crunch has one out now. I saw 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:05.000 in the cereal all the other day. It's sprinkled donuts 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:08.439