Dear Ferret Folks-

My 6 year old nephew is a huge Pez fan. Remember Pez? Those pastel
colored little sugary bricks of candy that come with their own special
dispensers? You flip the head back, and out comes a Pez. When I was
a little girl in Austria and Germany (long family trip) street car
conductors would go up and down the aisles looking for kids to give Pez
to. They kept the little dispensers in one of the leather sockets in
their change belts, the ones that they wore around their waists. My
parents would buy tickets with paper money and get coins and tickets in
return. I would get Pez, and an indulgent smile. In those days I was
very cute with straw blond hair, very Aryan! It got me a lot of Pez.

Today Pez International is still alive and well. It's dispensers are
tagged to individual childrens movies out in circulation. A few years
back there was a movie version of something called" the Golden
Compass", nominally written by C.S. Lewis. I never read the book or
saw the movie, so I can't say how tightly the original held to the
screenplay. I unserstand that the screenplay was troublesome to some of
the more fundamalentist congregations in the U.S.Specifically Catholic
congregations who chose to boycott the finished product.

[Posted in FML 6648]