There are only 2 Pez manufacturing locations in the world.
The name of Pez candy from the German word for peppermint,“pfefferminz.”.
Pez comes from the first, middle, and last letters
of the German word for peppermint, PfeffErminZ.
Specifically,“Pez” comes from the German word for peppermint,“pfefferminz”,
with the“p” coming from the first letter of the word;
You can buy commemorative blue doughnuts, Pez figurines that look like Saul
or bag after bag of blue rock sugar.
The highest price ever paid for a Pez dispenser to date was for a soft-head Mickey Mouse dispenser,
which sold at auction for $7000.
However, one collector did buy a Space Gun Pez dispenser for $11,000 on eBay,
but after chemical analysis, this gun was proved to be a fake.
The first Pez mints were not served in modern
day style Pez dispensers, but rather were sold in tin containers, very much like modern day Altoids tins.
Another very popular Pez dispenser in the 1950s was the space gun,
which produced a Pez brick out the barrel of the gun when the trigger was pulled.
Today, the Pez dispensers are made in Hungary and China,
while the candy itself is made in Austria and Connecticut, with the headquarters of the company in Traun, Austria.
Apart from the newly launched Pez in Pune, Polaris India also has 82 other
such Pez spread all over the county to reach out to more people and in turn give the participants a chance to experience the off road racing experience within their city.