Now, let’s talk Pez. Launched in 1952, but the iconic character heads—like the classy Santa and the creepy Easter Bunny—really hit their stride in 1958. You know Pez: the candy that tastes like compressed childhood and requires a tiny plastic guillotine to eat.
This stuff was originally invented as a breath mint for smokers in Austria. Yes, you read that right. A mint for adults. Then someone yelled, “Let’s add fruit flavor and a cartoon head!” and history was made. Today, the Pez dispenser itself is more famous than the candy. You can buy a gun-shaped dispenser that shoots Pez across a room—purely for legal, non-combative snack warfare.
