# Outer Tic Tacs shell flavour

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outer-tic-tacs-shell-flavour/700724>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 8, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outer-tic-tacs-shell-flavour/700724 "2014-10-08T03:26:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Artemis\_Tardis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Artemis\_Tardis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Artemis_Tardis)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outer-tic-tacs-shell-flavour/700724/1 "2014-10-08T03:26:38Z")

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Am I the only flock of snow who prefers the taste of the outer shell from Tic Tacs? It has a distinctive sweet, floral flavour. It is interesting that you can feel the transition between this sweet flavour and the peppermint kick. What is inside that flavour? Is there any candy I could buy that tastes like the outside of tic tacs?

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**Author:** ![Mornac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Mornac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mornac)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outer-tic-tacs-shell-flavour/700724/2 "2014-10-08T03:40:03Z")

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I always found it remarkably similar to the outer shell of Good n’ Plenty (which has the unfortunate disadvantage of being filled with licorice!)

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outer-tic-tacs-shell-flavour/700724/3 "2014-10-08T03:49:55Z")

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Those shell suckers over in Café Society can probably do more justice to this OP rather than General Questions. Moved.

**samclem** , moderator

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outer-tic-tacs-shell-flavour/700724/4 "2014-10-08T03:57:24Z")

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Isn’t it more or less hardened corn syrup?

Not really an answer, but somewhat different than a question. Sort of like an interrogative statement…

Obviously, I don’t know  
[Here’s what Wiki says](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic_Tac#Ingredients)

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outer-tic-tacs-shell-flavour/700724/5 "2014-10-08T03:58:59Z")

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[![](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnauba_wax#mediaviewer/File:Suikerbonen_De_Bock_Lentilles_-_Assortie.JPG) ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnauba_wax#mediaviewer/File:Suikerbonen_De_Bock_Lentilles_-_Assortie.JPG)

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outer-tic-tacs-shell-flavour/700724/6 "2014-10-08T07:34:10Z")

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> [@AncientHumanoid](#):
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> Isn’t it more or less hardened corn syrup?
> 
> Not really an answer, but somewhat different than a question. Sort of like an interrogative statement…
> 
> Obviously, I don’t know  
> [Here’s what Wiki says](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic_Tac#Ingredients)

Trouble with that is the catch-all ‘natural and artificial flavours’ - the flavour component of the shell is likely somewhere obscured in that category.

I’ve always thought of the shell flavour as being somewhat vanilla-like. Maybe it’s artificial vanillin (i.e. without all the other stuff that makes natural vanilla complex)

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**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outer-tic-tacs-shell-flavour/700724/7 "2014-10-08T21:11:34Z")

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To me the white ones would taste like vanilla before the mint kicked in but I only noticed it on the white ones.