# If you like ginger, you'll love Ginger Altoids **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 10, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-ginger-youll-love-ginger-altoids/167777 "2003-04-10T13:56:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-ginger-youll-love-ginger-altoids/167777/21 "2003-04-10T23:03:43Z")
Hmmm. I don’t like cinnamon or mint. I do like the tangerine and citrus. And I love anything ginger. Looks like I’ll have to do some searching. (Anise?! :::shudder::: ) Ginger is **great** for preventing motion sickness, if it’s real gingerroot that is. Speaking as one who’s thrown up in the back of a lot of cars from childhood on. Crystallized ginger is especially tasty as well as good for fighting nausea. Or you can usually find ginger capsules in the supplements aisle at most drugstores. They work too, you just don’t get to taste the ginger. 'Cept when you burp. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-ginger-youll-love-ginger-altoids/167777/22 "2003-04-11T03:30:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voguevixen \* > Bleah! I hate ginger. If they start making anise or clove Altoids though get out of the way because I will run you over to get some! Mmmmm…clove Altoids–now _there’s_ a lovely thought. I miss the days when I could get Adams Clove gum. But I’d go for ginger Altoids, too. I like pretty much all the flavors so far. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-ginger-youll-love-ginger-altoids/167777/23 "2003-04-11T04:38:23Z")
Anise – yum. Clove - yum, but maybe not so much yum as anise. Ginger sounds do-able, I’ll have to look for 'em. I’m off to email my friend who lives near a Trader Joe’s. I’ll let y’all know if I can score some! ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-ginger-youll-love-ginger-altoids/167777/24 "2003-04-11T05:59:10Z")
Tried 'em. Love 'em. But man, they’re hotter than the cinnamon. ---
**Author:** ![AquaPura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AquaPura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AquaPura)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-ginger-youll-love-ginger-altoids/167777/25 "2003-04-11T06:12:32Z")
Mmmmmm Altoids… I haven’t met an altoid that I didn’t like yet. I one of the Dr.'s at work had some ginger ones… tasty. But I too haven’t been able to find them around here. But my favorite altoids, even better than cinnamon, are Spearamint! Taste-a-licous! You can send those tasty Spearmint Altoids my way if you like! Trust me they will have a good home with this poor college student! ~aqua ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-ginger-youll-love-ginger-altoids/167777/26 "2003-04-11T06:49:11Z")
The ginger altoids sound like they’d be great… I’ll have to look for them. I surely won’t be paying the price that’s shown on that listing on E-bay. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-ginger-youll-love-ginger-altoids/167777/27 "2003-04-11T07:46:05Z")
I love all Altoid flavors I’ve tried, but I’ve never even seen Ginger Altoids. I’ll need to look for some now. As I live in Montana, I’ll be looking for Ginger in the North. 😃 (Although I do think they should have made the fruit flavors more sour and less light-and-sweet. Altoids should not be reduced to `just another hard candy.’ After all, they are not just another mint. They are Curiously Strong. :D) ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-ginger-youll-love-ginger-altoids/167777/28 "2003-04-11T12:27:57Z")
Derleth, that was horrid. If I recall correctly, we have Ginger Altoids here. Email me, and perhaps I can mail a tin or two out to the teeming millions. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-ginger-youll-love-ginger-altoids/167777/29 "2003-04-11T13:11:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AquaPura \* > \*\*You can send those tasty Spearmint Altoids my way if you like! Trust me they will have a good home with this poor college student!~aqua \*\* Email me your addy. You should know they’ve been opened, but I’m clean! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-ginger-youll-love-ginger-altoids/167777/30 "2003-04-11T13:14:32Z")
No, not Ginger. I’m a Mary Ann fan, myself… 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-ginger-youll-love-ginger-altoids/167777.md?page=1)