# The Mystery of the Unwrapped Peppermint Pattie **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 22, 2018, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310 "2018-02-22T02:22:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/21 "2018-02-22T15:34:22Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Don’t call my Peepas short. Little Peepsle?, then? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/22 "2018-02-22T15:47:21Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > I thought it was spelled “Patty”? And that Charles Schulz got a share of all sales, since the candy was named after one of his characters, was it not? [I would have sworn I saw some ads years ago using said character to sell the candy] > > Am I sadly mistaken? I wouldn’t say “sadly.” [Patty the Peanuts character](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppermint_Patty) debuted in 1966; [York PPs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Peppermint_Pattie) in 1940. Schulz got the name of the character from the candy. This does not mean you didn’t see commercials featuring PP hawking PP; I just haven’t found any, yet. As for now, [GET THE SENSATION, HUN-NEEEEEEEEEE!! HA, HA!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne2FchcCDDU) ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/23 "2018-02-22T16:18:56Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > But, count your M&Ms folks sometimes they cheat you out of upwards of 3 per bag. It adds up, peeps or no peeps. > My peeps like the same number in every bag. > I am writing a letter to the PTB tonight. > > On another consumer item, one time I got some garbage bags that were sealed on 4 sides. Stupid, I tell ya > > Burpo you kill me. I had a produce bag that was sealed on four sides once. The next one wasn’t sealed at all and was just an open sleeve allowing produce to drop to the floor. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/24 "2018-02-22T16:29:30Z")
> [@TheMysteryWriter](#): > > Haha > I now fully expect them to all disappear, one-by-one, until one giant fatty Pattie is left. Is your real-life name Pattie, perhaps? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anxious\_Squirrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anxious_squirrel/32/1083_2.png) [@Anxious\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anxious_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/25 "2018-02-22T17:42:18Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Is your real-life name Pattie, perhaps? 😃 Not quite, but I could say it is to make the joke better. 😃 Twas so busy anthropomorphizing my chocolate treat that I didn’t quite catch how else that could be taken. I am accidentally brilliant! And possibly just a figment of everyone’s imagination. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/26 "2018-02-22T18:13:26Z")
I don’t see this thread ending up on Debra Messing’s, “Mysteries of Laura,” any time soon. Huh? It’s cancelled? NM. ---
**Author:** ![Anxious\_Squirrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anxious_squirrel/32/1083_2.png) [@Anxious\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anxious_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/27 "2018-02-22T18:38:01Z")
The Scene: A locked room with no windows or escape hatches. The body of a woman lying dead on the floor. The only clue, an empty peppermint pattie wrapper. The Autopsy: No chocolate was found anywhere inside or outside the body. The Mystery: If the dead woman didn’t eat the chocolate, who did? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/28 "2018-02-22T19:37:28Z")
The dead woman is probably Marcie. Called her, “sir” one too many times. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/29 "2018-02-22T19:43:34Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > The dead woman is probably Marcie. Called her, “sir” one too many times. 😉 Ha! Nice detective work. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@MonkeyCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyCat)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/30 "2018-02-22T19:49:58Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > The rest of them must have ganged up and eaten that one. Once they get the taste of peppermint, there’s no turning back. My thoughts exactly. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@MonkeyCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyCat)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/31 "2018-02-22T19:52:26Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Concur. It is not uncommon for fetus patties to consume their siblings in-fasciculum. This image is only complete if you were twiddling your ridiculously well-manicured mustachio whilst typing. ---
**Author:** ![StraightTalk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straighttalk/32/9982_2.png) [@StraightTalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StraightTalk)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/32 "2018-02-22T21:22:03Z")
If you really want to know, I figure this is what happened. A patty was supposed to go in that wrapper but didn’t (wrapping or placement malfunction or whatever). The bags are filled by weight, not by count. The empty wrapper didn’t really add any weight so it just went in without phasing anything. Enough filled wrappers went in to make the weight. The bag got sent to the store. You bought the bag. You found the empty wrapper. You started a thread on SDMB. And here we are. ---
**Author:** ![Anxious\_Squirrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anxious_squirrel/32/1083_2.png) [@Anxious\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anxious_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/33 "2018-02-22T21:33:38Z")
> [@StraightTalk](#): > > If you really want to know, I figure this is what happened. A patty was supposed to go in that wrapper but didn’t (wrapping or placement malfunction or whatever). The bags are filled by weight, not by count. The empty wrapper didn’t really add any weight so it just went in without phasing anything. Enough filled wrappers went in to make the weight. The bag got sent to the store. You bought the bag. You found the empty wrapper. You started a thread on SDMB. And here we are. That would work, except the inside of that wrapper was all chocolate smeared. So there definitely was a peppermint pattie in there, at one time. So either the pattie fell out of the wrapper, was stolen out of the wrapper, or it ran away of it’s own volition. I suppose it also could have been beamed out by someone from the future. Either way, there was chocolate inside that wrapper at one time. And that’s the truth, your honor. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/34 "2018-02-22T21:57:39Z")
Not exactly the same but I one had an M&M that was only half filled with chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/35 "2018-02-22T23:10:23Z")
It was a pattie-black hole conundrum. That half nude (due to loss-chocolate crisis) Pattie is on the other side of the universe trying to figure out how to get back home. I give him 3 months before he’s tasted and maybe a year before he’s eaten. Too bad. Resistance is futile! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/36 "2018-02-22T23:14:53Z")
I am going to the store and get me some York peppermint patties. Right. Now. Anyone need anything? ---
**Author:** ![Anxious\_Squirrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anxious_squirrel/32/1083_2.png) [@Anxious\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anxious_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/37 "2018-02-22T23:24:49Z")
Poor naked Pattie. ;( She deserved better. If you’re going to the store anyway, could ya get me some skittles? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/38 "2018-02-23T00:21:06Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I am going to the store and get me some York peppermint patties. Right. Now. > Anyone need anything? I’ll take an empty, orange-smeared Cheetos bag. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/39 "2018-02-23T01:57:19Z")
Gotcha covered. Be back soon. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310/40 "2018-02-23T13:07:03Z")
When getting coffee in the lounge this morning, I took a sealed sugar packet out of the bowl. It contained less than half the usual amount (enough for my purposes, so it was OK). Pilferage at the plant? Evaporation? Demodex mites? The mystery deepens… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mystery-of-the-unwrapped-peppermint-pattie/809310.md?page=3)