Burlingame Online's PEZ Exhibit

Site:
http://www.spectrumnet.com/pez/

Category:
Hobbies

Review (in 1996):

With its cult following, PEZ candy has invaded the Web here with an exhibit of roughly 175 dispensers. Before entering the exhibit, we learned that PEZ is an abbreviation of the German word for peppermint, and that the seemingly addictive little bricks were created by Austrian Eduard Haas in 1927 as a cure for smoking, no less. At that time, they were marketed for adults in plain, characterless dispensers known to collectors as "regulars".

The page includes a diagram showing how to properly insert the pellets into the dispensers, and ads for PEZ collectibles like the out-of-production Smurf dispenser.

The collection includes the usual suspects - Miss Piggy, Foghorn Leghorn, and Daffy Duck - along with stranger entries like Mr. Ugly, Wounded Soldier, and Diabolic. Sorry, no Marie Antoinette.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.