![]() ![]() My great-grandmother kept a small candy jar on the counter with these in it. These mints will always have a special place in my heart. Here are some frequently asked questions emailed to me you might want to read first.Posted by Douglas John Boston on 28th Jan 2022.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Looked and felt pretty gritty I am sure it would do a great job of removing tooth enamel. ![]() You turned the lid to match the little holes up with the holes in a metal plate underneath then you could shake out the tooth powder onto your brush. It came in a metal painted oval-shaped tin with a lid that had little holes in it. When I was a pre-teen back in the 1960’s, my parents had a tin of Colgate Tooth Powder in a box of rarely used OTC products on the top shelf of the linen closet. I did order the spearmint ones once too-good, but not as good as the Wintergreen. Walgreens/Rite Aid don’t carry them (we don’t have CVS), none at Wal-Mart, Target or any grocery store, never seen them in a dollar store (no Dollar General or Cracker Barrel either) I have to order via Internet to satisfy my craving. Love these mints but impossible to find locally (haven’t seen them in over 20 years). Daffin’s Candies Factory & World’s Largest Candy Store.The name Canada Mint in this case was because it was sold in Canada starting in the 1880s and looks pretty much unchanged since then. (About 12 calories each, for those who just track that.)Īs a strange side note, there is a plant that’s known as Canada Mint, Corn Mint or simply wild mint ( Mentha arvensis) which is the only mint species native to North America. They’re also 100% carbs, for those watching those. The package heralds that they’re fat free. Now I just buy Neccos every once in a while (mostly because they’re available in rolls). I used to buy them a lot when I was a teen and when I was in college, I think because it was a dirt-cheap candy, usually less than a dollar a pound. They’re supposedly available in rolls, but I only ever see them in bulk bins or in these types of bags. The only problem I can think of with wintergreen is that it doesn’t really go well with coffee.Ĭanada Mints come in a peppermint version in white as well (and supposedly a spearmint version that I haven’t found in years). I pretty much love these and don’t care of someone thinks that I’ve been rubbing muscle-soothing balms into my muscles (but my pink tongue is probably a dead giveaway that it’s candy related). (There’s also a slight and quick-to-dissipate bitter aftertaste, but I chalk that up to the presence of Red #40.) I prefer the texture of these to something like the LifeSavers Wint-O-Green (but there’s no spark-making with these). They’re crumbly, not too sweet and have a pretty intense wintergreen flavor, so much that it makes my mouth a little numb. The texture of the tablet is a little softer than a conversation heart. They’re a bit more intense than Necco wafers. They’re a simple candy, just a firm sugar-based dough with some gums & gelatin in there to hold it all together in a firm chalky tablet.Ĭanada Mints are made by Necco, who makes another slightly different version of these called Necco Wafers in different flavors (the only real difference in the ingredients is some dextrose and glycerine). So even if you enjoy the flavor, other people associate it with those things and when they smell it they ask if you have sore muscles or a queasy stomach.Ĭanada Wintergreen are built on the flavor and don’t seem to have suffered for it. It’s also a flavor found in Root Beer and Birch Beer, two other uniquely North American flavors.įor many of us Wintergreen is associated with things like Pepto Bismol, Icy Hot or Ben Gay. (Still, I characterize it as a mint flavor, because it reminds me tooth powder - yes, I’m old enough to remember tooth powder.) It’s a flavor that’s more popular in North American than the rest of the planet. Wintergreen is sometimes called Winter Mint, but isn’t really a mint (in the sense that it’s derived from a mint plant), but it still falls into the “aromatics” of flavors. It’s also found in the North American teaberry and birch bark. Wintergreen is a natural flavor derived from a few sources, one of them being the Wintergreen plant. Wintergreen is one of those flavors that has been ruined for some by its use in medicines and salves. ![]()
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