Pixy Stix - Definition and Overview

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 it (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!"