I was looking at iPods recently and saw some of those really tiny iPod Shuffle things on eBay. It struck me that they would be about the right size to fit in a PEZ dispenser. I am all about homemade stuff, doing things cheaply and can make just about anything with PVC pipes and bamboo. MacGyver has nothing on me.
I was excited to get down to business with my idea until I searched online and saw that Harry McCracken of Technologizer had already done this. He said it was a tight squeeze and that he would not do this with a PEZ dispenser he cared about, but that it was definitely possible.
Even cooler is that one guy made some PEZ MP3 players commercially, but unfortunately it looks like he went out of business, since the link to his Web site no longer works. I think it’s a great idea.
PEZ Dispensers by josh.liba.
This just in – Miley Cyrus loves gummy bears! OMG LOL it’s so like we’re twins or something!‡
Wait a second – who doesn’t love gummy bears? Am I the only one who thinks it’s weird that this gummy bear thing even needed to be mentioned? Loving them is simply part of the human experience, I thought. Even Miley’s father, with his giant mullet and achey breaky heart, can be cheered up by the little guys.
Other celebrity classic candy favorites include Jerry Seinfeld, who loves Bit-O-Honey. To me, Bit-O-Honey tastes like childhood. I remember my mother saying that she loved them too. Great stuff.
Another of my favorites, Callie from The Real World DC, loves Tic Tacs. What? You don’t know Callie? She is the cute blonde one. You have never seen the show? Some friends and I watch it because it was shot here in DC. Otherwise, I would likely never have seen it either. But back to Callie. She seems like the nicest of all the people cast for the show, and she loves a classic candy. What’s not to love about her?
Well, the celebrities have weighed in. What classic candies rank among your favorites?
‡Miley Cyrus and I are not twins, just for the record. Truth be told, I wouldn’t even recognize her if I saw her on the street, much to the horror of my nieces, who love her. I don’t think I have ever seen her in anything she has done. She is a star of a very different generation. But she loves the gummy bears, so deep down she is my soul mate.
Gummy Bear by fdecomite.
A man in Halifax, Nova Scotia is reported to own 3000 PEZ dispensers, according to the Lethbridge Herald. Scott Ferguson started collecting the dispensers about 20 years ago when he bought some for some young relatives. He thought they were kind of neat so he got some for himself as well. Since then, he has amassed quite a large collection.
Part of the fun of PEZ, I think, is that it’s a candy that’s also a toy. That is a winning combination, bringing lots of fun to kids of various ages. I have heard of people collecting the dispensers before, but have never heard of a collection that large. I’d love to see a photo of all of it!
And you thought Tori’s friend had a lot of these things. Alas, Joyce only has about 200 or so, a mere novice compared to her Canadian counterpart. We all have to have something to work toward, though, so I hope Joyce will step into overdrive in her endeavors.
PEZ Dispensers by ingridtaylar.
I am excited about the
East-West Shrine Game this Saturday. This game is a long tradition in football and I know Tori,
our reigning queen of the sport, is excited to watch it as well. Actually, she broke a toe yesterday and will be resting her foot, so likely football will be on the tube and hopefully her fiance will be bringing her some
good candy snacks like these. She deserves it.
For my football viewing pleasure, I plan to have some of the chocolates I photographed, as well as Barbara’s favorite concoction of M&Ms and salted cocktail peanuts. Yum – that sweet/salt combination is easy to get and really something to try! What are you going to have?
As you know, if you have been reading for a while, the Shriners are a group close to my heart. We have given candy to the kids at the Shriners Hospital in Philadelphia and I am active in their various events. You can watch the game Saturday on ESPN2 at 3 p.m.
What is your favorite game-time snack?
Our friends over at Eating the Road have put together another one of their fun What Should I Eat? flowcharts, this time looking at candy. The flowchart is not kind to all candies, but I think their sense of humor will be taken in stride. At the bottom of the chart, note the candy corn and circus peanuts, which are not connected to anything. What gives? My lovely wife is a decision scientist, so I am sure she will enjoy this, especially since she also dislikes circus peanuts.
Here is a preview. Go check it out on their site to see the whole thing!
I don’t know about you, but I am housebound from the snow here in Arlington, VA and the snow is piled up like so much divinity candy. Someday the snow plows will come through and clear a path for us to get out, I am sure. Until then, I am stranded here, about five miles from the candy room, yet almost a world away. For instance, I don’t have a candy room here at home. That’s the biggest hardship.
In the meantime, I have a bag of chocolate chips and likely all the other ingredients for cookies or some other yummy treat I can bring to the office tomorrow, assuming we get plowed out of this nonsense.
If you worked at NCA, what would you want me to make today and bring tomorrow? Please, help me beat this cabin fever.
Divinity by kirstenpdx.
I saw this motorcycle outside the National Gallery of Art a while back and had to wonder, since it would obviously candy-flavored in the magical world where vehicles are made from food, does it taste like orange or banana? Because, as you can tell, it just might be of a circus peanut theme happening there.
More important, it makes me think of summer and warmer climes, whose sun-drenched vistas could warm me and pull me out of this December chill. Granted, this plush carpet high-nap rug-plated motorcycle is not quite as obviously branded as the Jelly Belly bike and other motorcycles we saw at the ALL CANDY EXPO this year, but we can always take a guess. What do you think? Here’s what we saw in Chicago in May:
Jelly Belly
Sunkist
Icee
