I just discovered these in the checkout lane at the grocery. I had just managed to break my addiction to the regular ginger Altoids, and now they’re selling them dipped in chocolate?
Why don’t they just put pure crack rock on the shelves? They should come with a spoon and a lighter so I can just freebase the damn things. I bet the next time I go to buy some they’ll be $20 a tin.
(All of their other mints are now available dipped in chocolate as well. Bastards.)
The peppermint ones are mighty fine as well.
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That’ll teach me to actually read the boards before I post… 
I just bought the cinnamon-chocolate Altoids last night. They’re already gone. Back home in NB, the nearby town of St. Stephen has a chocolate company named Ganong, which is very popular with the locals. They have these candies called Chicken Bones. No, no, there’s no chicken in them. They’re a hard pink cinnamon-candy shell with a strip of dark chocolate in the middle. You can suck 'em, you can crunch 'em, but they’re addictive. It’s a common Christmas tradition to have a big bowl of Chicken Bones for guests to munch on, but they’re also good any other time of year.
Those new cinnamon Altoids taste like inside-out Chicken Bones. Not quite the same, but an okay substitute until my family can send me my next shipment of Crack Bones.
Aren’t Altoids presented as being British? Why the fuck can’t we get dark chocolate dipped ginger Altoids in Britain then? Eh? Time to invade.
Must obtain!
Yesterday I purchased two dark dark chocolate bars flecked with crystallized ginger.
Well, this has been enlightening. I’d always thought ‘Altoids’ were a kind of antacid tablet, since that’s what they sound like.
I still don’t know what they are, but now I guess I know what they aren’t.
We had one of those. It didn’t last long.
Oddly, I can’t seem to sell anyone else at work on these. The plain ginger ones are, admittedly, a little harsh if you don’t love ginger, but the chocolate seems to attenuate it a little bit. Oh well, more for me.
Haven’t tried the chocolate ginger Altoids yet, but has anyone tried the Choxie “Hot Chocolate” with chipotle pepper in it from Target? It’s quite crack-like as well.
Tried them today! Dangerously delicious!
Altoids are kinda chalky, but what they manly are is strong. Mint Altoids (Peppermint and Wintergreen) are minty to the point of really being spicy and bitter, liquorice Altoids are very intense in exactly the way most black candies are not, and ginger Altoids are really only for people like me who love ginger. The company also makes fruit-flavored sour Altoids, of which the Mango Sours are my favorite, which do taste like more traditional sweet candies once you get through the fairly intense sour coating.
I absolutely love Altoids and will stop at nothing until I have obtained a tin of dark chocolate-covered ginger Altoids.
I have a tin of Dark Chocolate Dipped Ginger Altoids on my desk right now. There’s an Altoid in my mouth as I type. I sucked all the chocolate off, and am now enjoying the gingery goodness. They – and the other chocolate-dipped varieties – are currently lurking at the checkout counter at Walgreens, so you can’t help but buy a tin on your way out.
Great, I have to go through hell and high water to find *regular *ginger Altoids and now they come in chocolate-covered? I can see I’ll be spending my weekend looking for them now!
Bought my second tin of them today! Still not thru the first one yet, but there they were at the store I was in, and I didn’t want them to feel neglected!
I always thought I liked ginger, until I accidentally bought a tin of the chocolate-covered ginger Altoids. O.M.G. Very intense ginger flavor.
I’m a mint-a-holic and adore the choco covered peppermint ones, though.
jjimm, send me your addy and I’ll be happy to ship you some.
In the interest of fighting ignorance (my own) I rushed over to Walgreen’s and bought some. They only had the peppermint kind. They’re good. I’ve seen the cinnamon ones but don’t think I’d like them.
Ginger Altoids are my favorite but hard to find. I’m guessing Choco-Ginger will be even harder. I’ve seen web sites but I don’t want to buy 6 boxes, I want one.
Hope to see these in Canada soon. I did a residency in NB and do love my chicken bones.
I mostly eat my CG by itself, but it does go well with chocolate. I’ll have to take a look at the specialty-candy aisle when I go shopping tomorrow. Could you tell me the brand?
I’ll try the Altoids as well, but I don’t eat a lot of hard candy. I remember Chicken Bones very fondly too; I see that Ganong takes mail orders, so maybe…
Well, great. Now I have a new addiction. I’ve gone through three tins now (with the help of my coworkers, who are also now addicted…“Didya bring any more in? Didya? Didya?”) but I’ve only been able to find the pepermint and the cinnamon. The chocolate makes the cinnamon a bit less intense, so they are getting gobbled up quickly. But I really, really want to try the ginger. Walgreens only had the peppermint and cinnamon, Target, too…where else should I look?