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August 2, 2006
Pez: Lock and load
There is nothing like vintage candy to reduce a staff of professional (and grown-up) men and women to squealing 7-year-olds. Today, a colleague here at the Daily News brought in a collectors set of Star Wars Pez dispensers and the swarm of people who came to marvel at them was, frankly, embarrassing.
And just like 7-year-olds, we didn't bother to consider the potential investment in such a collectors set. We didn't bother to consider that perhaps 30 years from now this set, if left unmolested, could be worth a mint. No, we ripped it open in a frenzy of excitement, divvied up the dispensers like jackals to a dead animal, and within seconds, I was the proud owner of a Death Star Pez dispenser complete with the strawberry version of confection locked and loaded.
One colleague commented that Pez tastes like children's aspirin, which makes me wonder how on earth this candy has such a devoted following, but then again who cares how it tastes when it's coming out of Chewbacca's neck.
Posted by Sharon Kaplan at August 2, 2006 3:34 PM