"pez" news and stories

This election year has seen all manner of cooking and food related products ranging from Hop Obama beer to Hillary and Obama aprons. I suppose those Hillary aprons might have some value for collectors. But except for a Japanese confectioner offering lollipops, I've seen precious little campaign confections out there.

Then I happened on this pair of presidential Pez dispensers from Herobuilders. I've never been much of a Pez collector, though I do own a Homer Simpson dispenser. Herobuilders is offering its presidential "Candydates" for the whopping price of $19.95. I don't plan on buying one, but I do know who I plan to vote for pezident, er, president. No word yet on whether Herobuilders plans to cash in on all the hoopla surrounding Joe the Plumber by making a dispenser bearing his likeness.

The San Francisco Chronicle recently ran a short profile of The Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia. According to the Chronicle, the Burlingame museum is the only one of its kind. Apparently curator and shop owner Gary Doss has a specimen of each of the 627 official Pez dispensers ever made. The museum's site has several photographs of the collection, annotated with names and years of production. Also, a comment to a Pez-related post on Candy Addict suggests that there may also be some unofficial releases in the museum's back room.