Your birth year
2006
Pixy Stix
19591950s
Pixy Stix is 47 years older than you
It's from 1959, before you were born.
- Maker
- Nestlé / Ferrara
- Type
- Powdered candy
- Debuted
- 1959
- Note
- pure flavored sugar
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About
As of 2026, it's 67 years old.
Pixy Stix is, with admirable honesty, just flavored sugar in a paper straw. There is no candy to speak of — only a tube of tangy powder and the implied dare to pour the entire thing directly into your mouth.
It began as a drink mix in 1959 until someone noticed kids were skipping the water entirely and eating the powder straight, at which point the company wisely stopped fighting it.
Pure, unapologetic sugar delivery, Pixy Stix is less a confection than a parent's worst-case scenario in a colorful straw.
Pixy Stix through the years
1959
1959
Introduced
Flavored sugar powder sold in colorful paper straws.
1959
1959
From drink mix to candy
Kids preferred eating the tangy powder straight.
You were born — 2006
