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“Hard white rectangles notorious for causing dental fillings to come out when chewed.”

Minties

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Minties is a brand of confectionery originating in Australia and manufactured in both Australia and New Zealand for their respective markets. They are hard white, chewy, rectangular and mint-flavoured, which on chewing become so sticky that they are notorious for causing dental fillings to come out. They were originally packaged in 5lb (around 2.2 kg) bulk tins or 3oz (around 85g) cardboard boxes, but now come in packs ranging from 150g - 1 kg. Minties are wrapped in waxed paper with a cartoon underneath the logo with the common caption "It's moments like these you need Minties". About 500 million are consumed each year. In the early 1990s, Chocomints were marketed, which integrated milk chocolate into the traditional recipe. Later in the 1990s, Minties released 'Spearmint Minties', but these were taken off the market for unknown reasons just before the end of 1999. In 2013, Nestlé (Australia) introduced Allen's Minties "Smooth Mints Choc & Vanilla" which had choc-mint and vanilla-mint

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Minties are Australia's stubbornly adhesive mint confections—hard white rectangles that transform into chewy, sticky masses on your tongue. So relentlessly sticky they've earned a dark reputation for extracting dental fillings, these mints come wrapped in waxed paper with a cheerful cartoon promise: 'It's moments like these you need Minties.' Half a billion consumed annually suggests Australians have made peace with the stickiness.

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  • beloved in quantity (500M yearly)
  • long-standing heritage mint
  • iconic cartoon branding

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