Initially, PEZ dispensers resembled cigarette lighters, befitting PEZ’s market position as a breath mint for adult smokers rather than a candy.
In 2002, a Snopes reader emailed with the question,"Is it true that Betsy Ross was the only real person to be a 'Pez Head'?PEZ began in 1927 as an Austrian manufacturer and vendor of compressed peppermint tablets . Now, of course,is an international business known not just for its fruit-flavored candy tablets, but for the ubiquitous, brightly-colored molded plastic dispensers sold with them.
When PEZ inventor Edward Haas brought his product to the American market in 1952, sales were less than encouraging, so he made a couple of key changes intended to appeal to children: PEZ became fruit-flavored , and the dispensers were topped with the heads of cartoon characters, animals, circus figures, and other kiddie favorites.
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