{"id":232172,"date":"2023-05-28T07:16:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T11:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=291176"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:05:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:05:22","slug":"the-centennial-history-of-the-tazos-the-round-of-plastic-that-went-crazy-to-the-millennials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-centennial-history-of-the-tazos-the-round-of-plastic-that-went-crazy-to-the-millennials\/","title":{"rendered":"From Collectible Craze to Millennial Obsession: Unveiling the Centennial Story of Tazos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the 90’s<\/a> if you didn’t have tazos you were nobody. <\/strong>That’s how it was. For 25 pesetas you could have a bag full of potatoes and the most coveted thing: a plastic round with drawings on both sides that was worth different points and that was useful to win fights in the schoolyard, expand the collection and be the king with a Portatazos full to the brim. However, the history of the tazos begins seventy years before and goes halfway around the world:<\/strong> yes, only in one country we had the Chiquitazos, fistro.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Maui, Hawaii, 1927. Milk bottles have something very special apart from the food itself, which the manufacturers introduced as a mere necessity: a little cardboard circle that serves as a cap to protect the bottle, <\/strong>each one with a different brand. Children, sixty years before the NES <\/a><\/strong>and twelve years before television, had to have fun somehow: they collected these little circles, put them in a tower and played at knocking them down. You took the ones you knocked down, and it was the next one’s turn. A game of chance in which you could enter with forty and leave with eighty\u2026 or nothing at all. <\/strong>Take that, Las Vegas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the new bottling system made them a thing of the past, and in the 1940s they were lost, never to return\u2026 until 1971.<\/strong> That’s when Haleakala, a Maui milk brand, launched a new fruit drink <\/a><\/strong>called Pog (Passion Orange Guava) and, to promote it, gave away little cardboard circles like the ones of yesteryear with their logo printed on them.<\/strong> They became such a hit that they adopted the name of the drink itself: pogs. Incidentally, the drink in question is still on sale today, but without a prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Twenty years later (not even Doctor Who<\/strong> travels that far back in time), in Hawaii in 1991, a teacher on Oahu taught children to play pogs <\/strong>as a way of learning math and hoping that the kids would stop throwing balls at each other and move on to a non-violent alternative. Little did he know that he had just unleashed a typhoon that would reach Europe and South America in record time. To give you an idea: before it was exported out of Hawaii, the average number of pogs a child could have there was estimated at 1700.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1993, Pogs was no longer the only one selling them: it quickly became a smash hit around the world. Any company you can think of (like McDonald’s <\/a><\/strong>or Marvel) introduced them in the United States, causing a real fever that was called by different names around the world<\/strong>, like Flippos and, of course\u2026 Tazos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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