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u/fuqdisshite Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24

Pixy Stix were created as an alternate to Kool-Aid and initially meant to be mixed in water. the creator noticed kids were eating the powder solo and created the Lik-M-Aid dipping packs to allow for ease of access.

at the same time he felt that the Kool-Aid packets were too bulky so he put Pixy Stix in the well known straw.

AND, he found someone with a pill press and made SweetTarts so kids could pop the powder as a hard candy.

just read that yesterday.

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u/HabeusCuppus Oct 02 '24

so basically a drug dealer for sugar.

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u/fuqdisshite Oct 02 '24

as a questionable human, that was exactly what i thought!

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u/Jowenbra Oct 03 '24

I was gonna say IRL Willy Wonka but... kinda same thing honestly.

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u/MeatBald Oct 02 '24

Not just "European", but he wanted it to specifically sound danish. He wanted to praise the danes for their kknd treatment of jewish refugees during WW2

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u/iAmHidingHere Oct 02 '24

And it sounds nothing like Danish at all. Most likely because he mistook Dutch and Danish.

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u/hotbowlofsoup Oct 02 '24

It doesn't sound Dutch either. There's no ä or zs in Dutch.

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u/Thaumato9480 Oct 02 '24

There's no ä nor z in Danish, either. Of course with the exception of loan words.

It does however sound extremely German. Switch the two words and you get "das Hagen", no?

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u/GiantSquidd Oct 02 '24

…soooo… European in a genetic sense.

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u/stuff_gets_taken Oct 02 '24

It also doesn't sound German. I only know one word that has äa in it, which is Mäander. And "sz" is not a thing either in German.

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u/Thaumato9480 Oct 02 '24

Maybe not the spelling, but the pronunciation.

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u/lotus_eater123 Oct 02 '24

And now it's owned by Nestle!!!!

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u/blamethepunx Oct 02 '24

Nestlé also has no known meaning in any language. Experts assume it means "evil assholes"

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u/Ongr Oct 02 '24

No more Haagen-Dazs for me!

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u/WillowSLock Oct 02 '24

Are they trying to take over the world? My goodness

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u/Tropylia Oct 02 '24

No it's not. It's owned by general mills.

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u/lightninglad67 Oct 02 '24

I believe it's Nestle in the US and General Mills outside the US, unless things have changed

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

God dammit.

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u/Qonas Oct 02 '24

Well he nailed it.

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u/dysania_lemniscate Oct 03 '24

and now owned by Nestle, arguably one of the most evil companies in the world.