I realize this is something I should already know living less than twenty minutes from the PEZ HQ in Orange. What does PEZ mean? The name PEZ comes from the German word for peppermint, “PfeffErminZ” which I’m not even going to attempt to pronounce. They took the P from the first letter, E from the…
PEZ, who’s visitor center is right here in Orange, CT, was not meant as a fun candy at all. It started as more of a mint type item to help people quit smoking. The creator or PEZ who was Austrian named the candies after the German word for peppermint (Pffefferminz). They were first released in…