I just came across PEZCast.com, a podcast about PEZ dispensers. I knew people were crazy about these but had no idea there was a whole podcast dedicated to them! I know Tori’s boyfriend’s mom will get a kick out of this, as will fellow PEZ fan and loyal reader Sarah G. What’s cool about PEZ, at least in my book, is that it is a candy requiring a toy to dispense it. The toy can fit in your pocket but keeps the candy from getting covered in pocket lint. You get a little taste at a time and, best of all, candy out of someone’s neck. It’s like magic.
The curious thing about PEZ dispensers is that there have only been a few that have been modeled after real humans. I could only find four in my search and all of them great patriots important to the founding of our country: Daniel Boone, Betsy Ross, Paul Revere and Elvis Presley. Actually, three types of Elvis. Elvises. Elvii.
What I would like to see is some of my great literary heroes immortalized in a plastic candy dispenser: Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Langston Hughes, John Keats and Tim McLaurin. Tim would find humor in being remembered by way of a PEZ dispenser, I am sure, as long as it inspired someone. Then we could have a series of political leaders, including among others, The Founding Fathers, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles De Gaulle, Henry Kissinger and Dr. Zaius (an exception to the “human” category but a political leader nonetheless).
Who would you like to see as the next human-modeled PEZ dispenser?
Elvis PEZ Dispensers by hmmlargeart.
