![]() To Cybele May, the sweets queen behind Candy Blog, Pixy Stix are classic Americana. This direct method of sugar delivery induced raging highs that kept kids up well past bedtime. But then again, I guess when you're 10 years old and it's summer vacation and the lawn has already been mowed, you really don't have anything better to do anyway. Flavor selected at random Get a big sugar rush with a Large Pixy Stix This classic candy now comes supersized in a plastic tube thats a whopping 14in long. Giant Pixy Stix, which came along a little later, packed roughly three tablespoons of sugar into a 21-inch plastic tube. For one thing, the candy packets resembled nothing so much as chewing tobacco, and the weird dipping-stick method took both hands and essentially meant you were doing nothing else for the rest of the afternoon but dipping and licking, dipping and licking. Pixy Stix powder, or as it was then called ‘Frutola’, was originally intended to be used as a drink mixture. This small straw-shaped tube is filled with a delicious blue raspberry flavoured sugary powder, known in the UK as sherbet. ![]() There was something illicit about this whole process. Price: 0.69 Description Retro Candy inspired by Willy Wonka This must be what all the most magical creatures love to eat With their sweet and tangy powdery power, the Pixy Stix is like no other It really is pure Wonka Candy bliss Pixy Stix is a powdered candy that comes packaged in a straw. Pixy Stix are a mega popular kid’s candy in America. This Assortment includes 4 fabulous flavors of candy powder Grape, Maui Punch, Cherry or Orange flavor. Each handy display case contains 85 assorted-flavored 14-inch giant candy filled straws. Did you know that the purpose of the pixy stick powder was meant to be used as a drink mixture But kids liked the power so much that they decided to eat it instead of mixing it in the drink. Just like the original PIXY STIX but these are GIANT. A straw-shaped tube filled with a sugary fruit-flavored powder. ![]() "Kool-Aid"-and continue on in this manner until the powder was gone, or you lost patience and crunched the blandly-sweet dipping stick. Pixy Sticks are one of the kid's favorite candies of all time. The idea, as we all surely must remember, was to moisten a blunt pressed-sugar obelisk and dip it into a packet of flavored powder-which was basically the same substance as in Pixy Stix, i.e. It's one of the stranger members of any 1970s candy list. That was before the machines took over The GIANT PIXY STIX. Whoever dreamed up this high-concept confection must have been something of an abstract artist, or a mechanical engineer. Pixy Stix were initially made buy pouring the Pixy Stix dust into the straws by hand with spoons. ![]()
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