Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/21/pez-originally-marketed-as-smoking-cessation-aid.html
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There’s a reason why Pez guns are no longer produced
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oh my goodness gracious
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PEZ tablets are made by compressing confectionary sugar and flavoring with thousands of pounds of force until each brick holds together.
Ah, so that’s how the tutti-frutti flavor had that interesting mosaic design!
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Yeah, that detail about the massive amount of pressure necessary to make the candies struck me too.
Hell, they should advertise that fact, makes the candy kind of metal
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I read only the pull-quotes, but given the lede of the article I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned how much “serving” a pez is like lighting a Zippo…
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My guess is the PEZ candy gun was taken off the market when too many kids launched candy into their windpipe.
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