These new drinks quickly became the after-dinner drinks of Prohibition. Together they came up with the novel idea of selling non-alcoholic fruit syrups they called “New Era Beverages”. Nonetheless, you can’t keep a good man down, as they say, so Prost started a company called Prost & Callahan, Callahan being a childhood friend of Prost. Upon his return, however, Prost found himself out of a job as Prohibition had started while he was away, banning all production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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Consequently, he left his job at Cuisinier in New York and worked as a volunteer ambulance driver and stretcher carrier for the Red Cross in France. In 1916, the 32-year-old New Yorker had worked his way up the ladder of Cuisinier, a producer of fine liqueurs based in New York City however, with the start of World War I, Andre felt it his patriotic duty to serve both his country and the country of his French parents. Though it didn’t make its way to America until 1970, ZotZ might have never made it here at all if it weren’t for a young man by the name of Andre Prost. So without further ado, let’s take a walk down memory lane and read about how the “Big Fizz Candy” got its start. They were so good and so fun, you just had to share them with your friends and show them “where the fizz izz” (one of ZotZ’s slogans). You know ZotZ – that hard candy that tickled your tongue with its fizzy center. If you grew up anytime in the 1970s, you probably remember going down to your local candy store and trying out ZotZ candy for the first time.
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