PEZ was first marketed as a compressed peppermint candy over 70 years ago in Vienna, Austria. The name PEZ was derived from the German word for peppermint...PfeffErminZ
Peppermint. Indeed, the name PEZ itself is derived from the word Pfefferminz, German for that flavor.
PEZ was first marketed as a compressed peppermint candy over 83 years ago in Vienna, Austria. The name PEZ was derived from the German word for peppermint... PfeffErminZ. Today, over 3 billion PEZ Candies are consumed annually in the U.S.A. alone.
please eat zerbesB:If you mean the candy, the word comes from a German word for peppermint, pfefferminz. They took the 1st, the middle and the last letter. The company that started producing the pez candy, produced them for smokers so their breath wouldn't smell.
a candy people ate in the 50's and 60's In 1927, in Vienna, Austria, a candy maker by the name of Eduard Haus, III, developed a candy to conceal adult smokers' bad breath.The original flavor for the candy, which is still available today, was Peppermint. When marketers extracted the first, middle, and the last letters of the German word for Peppermint, Pfefferminz, they were left with PEZ. Convenient, headless PEZ dispensers surfaced in the late 1940, and allowed the smoker to pop a PEZ to freshen his/her breath. In 1952, the PEZ revolution spread to the US. Ceasing the opportunity markets came out with fruit-flavoredto attract children andchanged the PEZ dispenser with character headsas a gimmick to attract the children.
The first PEZ (candy) was invented in 1927 in Vienna, Austria by a candyman named Edward Haas III. Edward Haas came up with the idea for this new peppermint candy. It was an adult breath mint that he decided to market as an alternative for smoking. Back then, PEZ, the brick-shaped candies were carried around in pocket tins.The first PEZ dispenser was invented in 1947, naturally, looked like a cigarette lighter.The word "PEZ" comes from the German word for peppermint, which is phefferminz. You take the first, middle, and last letters of the German word - PheffErminZ, put them together and you get "PEZ".
PEZ
PEZ is a candy and the brand name of an Austrian candy manufacturer. PEZ was invented in Vienna in 1927 by Ernst Haas III. The original flavour was mint and the candy took its name from the first, middle and last letters of the German word Pfefferminz(peppermint).Pez has had great success in America, where it was introduced in 1952.The current flavours include:Regular flavoursChocolateColaGrapeLemonOrangePeppermintRaspberryStrawberrySour FlavoursSour WatermelonSour Green AppleSour Blue RaspberrySour PineappleSugarfree FlavoursSugarfree OrangeSugarfree LemonSugarfree StrawberryDiscontinued FlavoursAppleCherryChlorophyllCoffeeFlowerLimeMenthol/EucalyptusYogurt
In English "el pez amarillo" would mean the yellow fish.
fish
pez vela
But isn't a German word.