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Pantteri Duo
Chewy Candy

Description:

Pantteri (Finnish for "panther") is a very popular brand of Finnish salmiakki candy, made by Fazer.

Pantteri candies were first invented in 1965 as small, black salmiakki and liquorice gum drops in a typical cardboard candy box, with a picture of a panther on the box cover. A sugar coating was later added to the drops, slightly altering their taste.

The most famous form of Pantteri, however, is the larger, sugar coated disc-shaped candies sold in a plastic bag, also with a picture of a panther on it.

At first only salmiakki Pantteri candies were available, but in the 1990s Fazer introduced a fruit-flavoured version of Pantteri, "Pantteri Mix" (containing red, yellow and green fruit candies and normal salmiakki candies). Another new version is "Musta Pantteri" (Finnish for "black panther"), which has a slightly higher ammonium chloride content than the regular salmiakki Pantteri. Mixes of salmiakki and fruit candies are also available.

In the 2000s, the Pantteri drops sold in boxes were reverted to the original 1965 version, without the sugar coating. The text on the box says "Original Pantteri drops from 1965".

The newest additions are "Pantteri Duo" in the summer 2005, containing fruit Pantteri candies with a more exotic flavour and two different versions of salmiakki Pantteri candies, and "Lumipantteri Mix" (Finnish for "snow panther") in summer 2006, "Panther Mix" candies with white coating.

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Parma Violets
Chewy Candy

Description:

Delicately perfumed violet sweets.

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Party Ring
Cookies & Cakes

Description:

The party ring is a British biscuit first made by Fox's Biscuits in 1983. It is a circular biscuit with a central finger-sized hole and is not dissimilar to shortbread in taste. On top of this is a layer of hard coloured icing with "wiggly" lines in a different colour. The five colour combinations are:

Orange icing with white lines
Pink icing with white lines
Pink icing with yellow lines
Purple icing with yellow lines
Yellow icing with pink lines

Party rings were a product of the 1980s fashion for the newly developed chemical food dye system that enabled more lavish colours to be incorporated into the manufacture of biscuits. This made them a very popular choice for children's parties, where not only could the colours amuse, but the holes in the middle enabled them to be placed on a finger, often resulting in "ring races". These involved each child taking five rings and placing one on each finger of a hand. They would then proceed to eat them as fast as possible, with the inevitable danger of biting a finger a bit too hard.

The crisp, hard sheen on the icing is because of the use of carob bean gum — the carob, or locust bean, is also sometimes used as a chocolate substitute.

Because of the demographic popularity of the product, most "party ring children" are now of university age, and many universities have societies to appreciate such confectionery items.

These societies came to notoriety in 1999 when Fox's Biscuits changed the packaging of party rings, causing petitions, heavy leafleting campaigns and a sit-in outside their production plant in Batley, West Yorkshire.

A standard pack of party rings consists of a long plastic tray containing five biscuit wells, each holding four biscuits of the same pattern, making twenty biscuits per pack. Fox's decided to remove the purple/yellow biscuit because the dyes used had been linked to certain health problems.

Instead of replacing them, they removed them completely, leaving only sixteen biscuits per pack. Through their determination, the university societies not only managed to have the purple/yellow biscuit reinstated (using newer, safer dyes), but many societies received a letter of apology from the managing director of Fox's Biscuits.

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Pastilles de Vichy
Mint

Description:

These mints have been made in Vichy since 1828, when a local pharmacist figured out how to extract the minerals from the town's famous thermal waters. He mixed the extract with sugar and natural mint flavors, and produced the tablet.

A favorite of the Empress Eugénie, the octogonal pastilles were immensely popular in the nineteenth century, not only for their reputed ability to cure heartburn but for their fresh minty flavor.

The vogue for thermal waters has passed, but the candies remain, a testament of their tastiness.

In the mid-nineteenth century, some doctors advised their patients that eating eight pastilles de Vichy a day would have the same benefit as a visit to the thermal waters themselves.

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Pay Day
Chocolate Snack

Description:

Caramel fudge center with salted peanuts.

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Peanut Brittle
Fudge/toffee

Description:

Also known as Peanut Cluster.

Toasted peanuts in very hard brittle toffee-simply delicious!

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Pear Drops
Boiled Candy

Description:

Yellow and pink, pear flavour, hard boiled sweets.

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Penguin Biscuits
Cookies & Cakes

Description:

Chocolate creme sandwiched between two chcocolate biscuits all covered in milk chcocolate.

McVitie’s most popular chocolate biscuit bar is one of the first biscuits to be advertised by name rather than company, its association with the distinctive birds (the packaging featuring a giant Emperor Penguin) is synonymous with the brand’s appeal.

Penguin was first produced in 1932 by William McDonald, a biscuit manufacturer in Glasgow, and became a McVitie’s brand when McDonald joined with McVitie’s and Price, MacFarlane Lang & Co and Crawford to form United Biscuits in 1946.

As well as the poplar milk chocolate product, Penguin is also available in delicious orange and mint flavours within variety packs. The perfect treat for any lunchbox.

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Pez
Chewy Candy

Description:

PEZ is the shortened name of PEZ Candy Inc. It is also the name of two of its product categories, namely:

pressed, dry candies, straight-edged and shaped like 3/8-inch- (1-cm-) long bricks, and
pocket mechanical dispensers for such candy. (holds 12 pieces of pez candy)
The name PEZ was derived from the German word for peppermint, Pfefferminz, the first PEZ flavour. PEZ was originally introduced in Austria, later exported, notably to the U.S., and eventually became available worldwide. The all-upper-case spelling of PEZ echoes the trademark's style of type on packaging and the dispensers themselves, drawn in perspective and looking as if the letters were built out of brick-like PEZ candies.

Despite the world-wide recognition of the PEZ dispenser, the company considers itself to be primarily a candy company, producing over 3 billion candy bricks each year in the U.S. alone [1]. PEZ Dispensers are part of popular culture in many nations. Because of the large number of dispenser designs over the years, PEZ dispensers are collected by enthusiasts.

History
PEZ was first marketed as a compressed peppermint candy in Vienna, Austria. The candy was invented in 1927 in Vienna by a confectioner named Eduard Haas III. Haas invented peppermint candies using family owned baking powders, and decided to serve the mints in small, hand-size containers. He manufactured a small tin to hold the mints, similar to the modern Altoids tins. The first PEZ mint dispensers, known as "regulars", were similar in shape to a cigarette lighter, and dispensed an adult breath mint marketed as an alternative to smoking. They were invented by Oscar Uxa. Haas Food Manufacturing Corporation of Vienna, Austria, was the first to sell PEZ candies.

World War II slowed marketing and production. In 1945, manufacturers devised and promoted the PEZ Box Regular. In 1952 Eduard Haas introduced his product to the United States, and Curtis Allina headed PEZ's U.S. business. In 1955, the PEZ company placed heads on the dispensers and marketed it for children. Santa Claus, Mickey Mouse and Spacetrooper were among the first character dispensers.

After being unavailable for several years, peppermint flavored PEZ candies were reintroduced in the late 1990's along with remakes of the "regulars".

Oddly enough, Jacko and W both enjoy Pez and little boys in their beds.

In early 2006 the family of the original founder of the company bought back 32.5% of the stock from investment company PGH for €18M. They now own 67.5% of the company. The headquarters are in Traun, Austria. The candies are produced in Traun and Orange, Connecticut. Dispensers are produced in Hungary and China.

PEZ candy has come in a wide variety of flavours over the years, including:

General	Sour Flavours	Sugarfree Flavours
Apple Cherry Chocolate Cola Dextrose Flower Grape Lemon Menthol/Eucalyptus Orange Peppermint Raspberry Strawberry Yogurt	Sour Watermelon Sour Green Apple Sour Blue Raspberry Sour Pineapple	Sugarfree Orange Sugarfree Lemon Sugarfree Strawberry

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Picnic
Chocolate Snack

Description:

Packed with peanuts and raisins all smothered in Cadbury milk chocolate.

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Pineapple Chunks
Boiled Candy

Description:

Cubes of hard boiled, pineapple pleasure with a sugar coating.

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Pink 'n' Whites
Cookies & Cakes

Description:

Two large and crispy wafres filled with thick chewwy mallow - kids love them.

Pink 'n'White Jammies are also available with a splodge on jam in them.

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Pink Panther Wafers
Cookies & Cakes

Description:

The original pink wafer still going strong under the careful watch of the Pink Panther. Layers of Vanilla flavour filling are sandwiched between traditional pink wafers... a family favourite for generations.

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Pint Pots
Chewy Candy

Description:

These soft gums really do taste like beery sweets. Not to everyone's taste but if you like beer then give them a try.

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Pixy Stix
Sherbet

Description:

Individually wrapped assorted fruit flavor candy powder filled fun straws. These come in 4 flavors: Blue Raspberry, Cherry, Grape and Orange.

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Planters Peanut Bar
Chewy Candy

Description:

Planters Peanut Bar... If you like peanuts, this one is for you.

Peanuts, Peanuts, and More Peanuts held together with a thick clear glaze.

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Plopp
Chocolate Snack

Description:

Caramel filled chocolate.

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Pocky
Chocolate Snack

Description:

Pocky is a Japanese snack food produced by the Ezaki Glico Company of Japan.

It was first sold in 1965, under the name Chocoteck, and consists of a biscuit stick coated with chocolate. Pocky was an instant hit among Japanese teenagers, and brought in sales of 30 billion yen in its first two years.

The name was changed to "Pocky", after the Japanese onomatopoetic word for the sound Pocky makes when bitten, pokkin .

The original was followed by "Almond Pocky" in 1971, with an almond coating, and "Strawberry Pocky" in 1977. Today, the product line includes such variations as milk, mousse, green tea and coconut flavored coatings, and themed products such as "Decorer Pocky", with colorful decorative stripes in the coating, and "Men's Pocky", a dark (bittersweet) chocolate and "mature" version.

Pocky is very popular in Japan. In bars, it is sometimes served in a glass of ice water. It also has a significant presence in other East Asian countries such as China and South Korea.

In Europe, Pocky is renamed Mikado after the game Mikado.

In the United States and Canada, Pocky can be found in Asian supermarkets and the international section of most large supermarkets, and anime convention dealers' rooms.

In Malaysia, Pocky was renamed as Rocky, perhaps to avoid a vulgar word in Malay with similar pronunciation. Pocky has recently been marketed in America by LU, a company of the Danone Group, although it is also marketed by Ezaki Glico's American division,

Ezaki Glico USA Corporation.

In Australia, Pocky is usually sold in Japanese convenience markets along with other Japanese foods and products.

Outside of Japan, Pocky is fairly popular among Japanophiles and anime fans. Its constant association with the Engrish phenomenon and the oddness of some of its versions (like the "Men's Pocky" bittersweet flavor), as well as the several Pocky parodies seen on many anime/manga series, contribute to the snack's reputation.

Flavours of Pocky:

Chocolate flavors	Fruit/Nut flavors	Mousse flavors
Anime Pocky Chocolate Giant Chocolate Giant Double Choco Gokuboso Pocky Little Pocky Marble Pocky Chocolate Marble Royal Milk Tea Men’s Pocky	Almond Chocolate Almond Crush White Chocolate Almond Crush White Chocolate/Chocolate Almond Crush Café au Lait Almond Crush Mild Milk Almond Crush Honey White Almond Crush Anglaise Almond Crush Banana Choco Banana Coconut Coconut Milk Cinnamon Apple Green Apple Mango Melon Pine Cream Strawberry Tsubu Tsubu Strawberry Tsubu Tsubu Giant Strawberry	Azuki Black & Latte Blueberry Yogurt Choco Chocolate Creamy Custard Extra Chocolate Green Tea Hazelnut Milk Chocolate Hokkaido White Mango Mild Chocolate Royal Milk Tea Strawberry Tiramisu White New White

Decorer flavors	Seasonal flavors Special Pocky flavors available only during certain seasons.	Regional flavors Special Pocky flavors available only in certain regions of Japan.
Berry Chocolate Grape Mild Chocolate Lemon Chocolate Mont-Blanc White Chocolate Peach & Strawberry Chocolate White Wedding Chocolate Apple Cream Custard Bananu Semi-Sucrée Chocolat de Caramel Fraise au Chocolat Gateau Chocolat Strawberry Gâteau	Winter - Fuyuno Kuchidoke (Winter Melt-in-Mouth) Winter - Murasaki Imo (Sweet Potato) Spring - Honey Summer - Kiwi Mango Cocoa Powder	Nagano - Grape Hokkaido - Yubari Melon Kyushu - Kyushu Giant Mikan Kyoto - Kyoto Powdered Tea Azuki Bean Kobe - Kobe Wine

Reverse	Fortune Telling Pocky	Pocky G
Reverse White Strawberry	Honey & Milk Grape Strawberry	Pocky G Berry Neil

Five Flavor Combination	Crush	Special Occasion flavors
Pocky with a combination of five flavors. Limited edition 2006. Kurogo (Five Black) - black pine nut, black soybean, black karin, black sesame seed, unpolished black rice Goka (Five Fruit) - peach, apricot, jujube, plum, chestnut	Almond Cookie Strawberry	2001 Giant Rainbow (Contains Giant Cider, Giant Green Tea, Giant Custard, Giant Blueberry, Giant Orange, Giant Chocolate)

European Pocky (Mikado)		Other Pocky flavors
Milchschokolade (Milk Chocolate) Zartherb (Bittersweet Chocolate)		Caramel Cereal Almond Kinako (Soybean) Kurogoma (Black Sesame) Lemon Cheesecake Milk Milk Chocolate Whole Wheat Pudding Pumpkin Yogurt Tahitian Vanilla Wasabi Nori