Pez

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Pez

The logo was designed by Eduard Haas.
Type	Peppermint
Place of origin	Austria
Region or state	Traun
Created by	Eduard Haas
Invented	1927; 97 years ago (1927)
Main ingredients	Sugar, corn syrup, plant-based fat, flavorings and colorings
Variations	Peppermint,Grape, Cherry, Orange, Lemon, Strawberry, Raspberry, Cola, Sugar Cookie, Fizzy, Sours, Candy Corn, Cotton Candy, Vanilla Cupcake, Banana, Lychee, Mango, Coconut, Chocolate, Dragon Fruit
Food energy (per 8.5 g (1 roll) serving)	34.4 kcal (144 kJ)
Nutritional value (per 8.5 g (1 roll) serving)	Protein 0 g Fat 0 g Carbohydrate 7.9 g
Other information	www.pez.at
Media: Pez

Pez (English: /pɛz/, German: [peːts]; stylised as PEZ) is the brand name of an Austrian candy and associated manual candy dispensers. The candy is a pressed, dry, straight-edged, curved-corner block 15 mm (5⁄8 inch) long, 8 mm (5⁄16 inch) wide and 5 mm (3⁄16 inch) high, with each Pez dispenser holding 12 candy pieces.

Pez was invented in Austria and later exported worldwide. The all-uppercase spelling of the logo echoes the trademark's style on the packaging and the dispensers, with the logo drawn in perspective and giving the appearance that the letters are built out of 44 brick-like Pez mints (14 bricks in the P and 15 in each of the E and Z).

Despite the widespread recognition and popularity of the Pez dispenser, the company considers itself to be primarily a candy company, stating that "[t]oday, billions of PEZ candies are consumed annually in the U.S.A. alone".^[1] Pez dispensers are a part of popular culture in many nations, an example being "Soul Candy" in the Japanese manga series Bleach.^[2] Because of the large number of dispenser designs over the years, they are collected by many.