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PEZ™ dispensers, icons of popular culture, highlight candy’s significance in an American child’s diet. Children relate candy with colorful toys, and food becomes more enticing. PEZ dispensers, featuring cartoon characters, symbolize the body as a food container. The hotdog replaces candy to present meal dispensers. Skin-like masses on the dispenser illustrate the internalization of food, with hotdogs growing from them to visualize “you are what you eat.”