Life Savers trivia

This page is a list of trivia facts relating to Life Savers candy and their cultural history.

Trivia

 * The name Life Savers derives from the particular shape of the white life jackets that became mandatory on ships following the Titanic disaster in 1912.
 * The current slogan found on the official website reads "A hole lot of fun", which is a play on words as "a whole lot of fun" means much fun.
 * The inventor of the Life Savers, Clarence Crane, was the father of Harold Hart Crane, a famous American poet.
 * The original brand of Life Savers candy was Crane's Peppermint Life Savers.
 * The sugar in the candy has been replaced with a calorie-reduced sugar.
 * In 1996, a game called Chomp was sold based on the Life Savers gummy candies.
 * The first commercial for Gummi Savers gummy candies featured candies dancing the conga. Later the candies were chosen to sponsor the MTV Rock and Skate, summer concerts and sporting events of 1998, and later for the video game Croc 2.
 * The Gummy Candy ad was created by Pixar and directed by John Lasseter and won a Clio Award.
 * During an interview, bassist of the band Kiss, Gene Simmons, said that before every show, he held a red Life Saver in his mouth for about a half hour to get a blood-red tongue.