It this is a double post, I apologize. I tried to post it a half-hour ago, but it doesn’t appear on the board. I think I made a mistake somewhere in posting it, so I’m trying again.
Anyway, for nostalgic reasons I am trying to find a candy mint that was popular in the 1960s. I have looked for them in several stores and on several of the internet sites that sell “old-time” candy, but I can’t find it. Maybe it is still being sold and I am just not looking in the right places.
The candy in question was a round, flat, solid mint, about one and one-half inches in diameter and one-quarter inch thick. One side was smooth and one side was ridged. They came in a long (eight inches) narrow box with a cellophan side so that you could see the mints which were in the box stacked on their edges. Each box had ten white mints, ten yellow mints, ten green mints, and ten pink mints. They melted in your mouth and were incredibly sweet. I suspect they were mainly sugar and a little coloring. But I loved them.
Does anyone else remember them? Can anyone tell me where I can find them?
Buttermints?
I’m sure you can make them in any shape you want, but this it the candy (that I know of) that comes in different colors and melts in your mouth.
I have a follow-up question. Was this a sugary type candy or something made out of white chocolate? Now I’m wondering if you’re talking about those white chocolate disks?
Either way you might want to check in your phone book for stores that sell confections.
Ok, I think I found them! Not the brand I remember, but they sound right…ridged, pastel, not chocolate…I can http://www.oliverscandies.com/index.cfm/product/110_10/pastel-mints.cfm still taste them! Hope this is what you were looking for! Now, if I can rearrange my shopping this afternoon to go by B.A. Sweeties and see if they have them…lol
Okay, messed up the coding on the link, but still! And one of the comments mentioned they were also called Merrimints in another brand, and that the Vermont Store had them.
I remember buying those, or something like them, when I was really young! They were in a candy shop, like Fanny Farmer’s. I would beg my mom to get them whenever I saw them. They were packaged just as you describe. If they were called Merrimints, Kittenblue’s link looks just like them!
You might be able to find a recipe and make something similar. The “real” Merrimints are no longer made.
This! The ones we bought were just called Pastel Mints. Pretty sure it was just from the store, as this was decades ago and there were no specialty shops where I lived. Though I was born in Vermont…maybe it’s a NE thing. Hrm…
About the only similarity between Necco wafers and the mints described in this thread is that both confections are round. Necco wafers aren’t mint, and the texture is very, very different. That’s not to say they aren’t great and nostalgic. Just very different.
Necco wafers IMHO are very dissimilar from the Merrimints of my youth. The merrimints melted quite nicely in the mouth, with just a little slow mastication.