Pixy Stix
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A Pixy Stix is a Willy Wonka–brand powdered candy packaged in a wrapper not unlike that of a drinking straw. It is popular during Halloween. The sugar is usually orally ingested, though it has become popular to ingest it intranasally, mocking cocaine usage.
Pixy Stix in popular culture
- The Breakfast Club - Ally Sheedy's character has a memorable scene in which she eats a Pixy Stix sandwich.
- In an episode of The Simpsons, Apu calls Lisa a "little pixie", saying, "You are as sweet as the sticks that bear your name!"
- In another episode of The Simpsons, Bart convinces the Flanders kids that there is no sugar in Pixy Stix.
- In the Upright Citizens Brigade pixy stix are a drug known as Supercool, featured during the second seaon.Template:Food-stub