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A packet of small Pixy Stix. Pixy Stix are a sweet and sour colored powdered candy usually packaged in a wrapper that resembles a drinking straw. The candy is lightly poured into the mouth from the wrapper, which is made out of either plastic or paper. Pixy Stix contain dextrose, citric acid, and artificial and natural flavors.
Ronald Clark O'Bryan (October 19, 1944 – March 31, 1984), nicknamed The Candy Man, The Man Who Killed Halloween and The Pixy Stix Killer, was an American man convicted of killing his eight-year-old son Timothy (April 5, 1966 – October 31, 1974) on Halloween 1974 with a potassium cyanide-laced Pixy Stix that was ostensibly collected during a trick or treat outing.
While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.
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The study said Pixy Stix has the most sugar, while Red Vines Black Licorice has the least. The QR Code Generator research analyzed 100 beloved American candies. The nutritional information was ...
On Halloween night in 1974, O’Bryan cut open five 21-inch Pixy Stix tubes and replaced the top few inches with cyanide before giving the candy to his two children and three of their friends who ...
He also handed the cyanide pixy stix out to other children who never consumed them, "presumably hoping that if several children died, it wouldn't look nearly as fishy," according to the Austin ...
It must be a (reliable) source discussing or attesting the existence of that slang word or phrase, like a book about Spanish slang or even a dictionary. There's a lot of unreferenced slang words and phrases in the list. I'll clean the list up someday. --damiens.rf 17:22, 10 April 2014 (UTC)