photo © Thomas Raven
If you want a product to live forever, make it a candy product. The American Candy Company was founded in 1899 in Selma, AL and it invented “wax lips”. These were just big, red, puckered lips that included enough confections that they could be chewed like gum when the wearer got tired of puckering up. While I don’t know for sure that the same company made the fanged lips, it seems like a reasonable assumption.
I got all sorts of weird, wax, Halloween “candy” when I was a kid. There were mini wax soda bottles that contained a shot of colored sugar water, there were orange wax whistles that looked like Pan flutes (hated by parents everywhere due to the horrific noises they produced), and there were even liquid-filled wax ghosts and witches.
While these are a lot of fun for about thirty seconds, they don’t taste very good when chewed. They’re a bit like very stale, hard chewing gum and due to the size of the lips you can quite literally break off more than you can chew. If you want to try them out, they’re still being produced today due to the nostalgia factor. Just be careful with your dental work.