Abstract: Slide dispenser apparatus comprising a manually operable, controlled-quantity merchandise dispenser of a type including a base and a separable upper merchandise-storing chamber positioned thereover and having a bottom opening for merchandise gravity-feeding relationship with respect to an upwardly open, intermediately positioned, merchandise-receiving-and-dispensing chamber positioned between the bottom of the merchandise-storing chamber and the underlying base, and with said intermediate chamber being provided with a manually-extendible-and-retractable merchandise-receiving-and-dispensing slide member having an upwardly open merchandise-receiving cavity of a size such as to receive a desired quantity of particulate merchandise material, or a unit of globular merchandise material, or the like, completely within the cavity for slidable transverse extending movement of the slide member into a position such that the cavity will be exterior of the base for dispensing the particulate material from a spoon carried