3 Lbs of Nik L Nip Wax Bottles Candy Drinks. includes five fruity bottles with some fun and funky names, as diverse as the many decades they've survived: Chillin' Cherry, O-So Orange, Hello Lemon, Blazin' Blue Raspberry, and Groovin' Green.. Nik-L-Nips have been pleasing the young and the young-at-heart for generations! Invented in the early 1900s, these little wax delicacies derive their name from a combination of the original cost of the candy (a nickel) and the preferred technique for opening the wax bottle . How nifty is that?. Each Bottle is 2 3/4 Inches tall. There are approximatley 165 bottles.. For nearly a century, fruit-flavored, liquid-filled Nik-L-Nip Mini Drinks have been a party and holiday favorite.