pez dispenser

Description

PEZ was first established in 1927 by Eduard Haas III in Vienna, Austria. Their first offering was as a peppermint-flavored breath mint sold in rolls as “Drops,” like Life Savers candy today. The company name PEZ came from the German word for peppermint, which is “pfeffermintz” Haas took the ‘p,’ ‘e,’ and ‘z’ to get the candy’s name. After eight years, the company was doing so well that it had to build an additional factory in Czechoslovakia to increase production. In the 1930s, the brick-shaped PEZ mints were sold in small tins that kept the candies clean while stored in the pocket.