"do not wipe the taste of the day away with the false and foreign taste of mint"

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Mint is lovely in all its forms: discuss

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 20 July 2003 11:39 (twenty-three years ago)

PEPPERmint
SPEARmint

mint mint mint

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 20 July 2003 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Fennel toothpaste can be bettah in cases of extreme hangover mouth of grimness situations.

― RickyT (RickyT), Sunday, 20 July 2003 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

i am a mintalist

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 20 July 2003 11:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Minty Clinch!

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Sunday, 20 July 2003 11:45 (twenty-three years ago)

i don like Mint Choc Chip

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 20 July 2003 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Mint is OK. But I prefer garlic.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 20 July 2003 11:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Mint is good in most other common usages ie: mint sauce on yer lamb, mint choc chip (stevem = crazy fule obv), thee gum of chewing, the holy polo, BOREK, ect ect.

I am unsure about the 80's dinner party sensation that was Viennetta.

― RickyT (RickyT), Sunday, 20 July 2003 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I prefer peppermint to spearmint.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Sunday, 20 July 2003 11:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Vienetta was good, tho i never tried the mint version.

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 20 July 2003 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Do they still make Viennetta?

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Sunday, 20 July 2003 11:55 (twenty-three years ago)

they make it as fast as i can eat it (hence its apparent scarcity possibly)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 20 July 2003 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I recently spotted a packet lurking suspiciously in the depths of a corner shop freezer, so I assume so, unless it had been there since 1996.

― RickyT (RickyT), Sunday, 20 July 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

cleaning teeth w/ minty paste then drinking yr orange juice = most horrible mouthtaste ever

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Sunday, 20 July 2003 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Though thinking about it, recently as used above could translate as any time in the last couple of years, so maybe it is gone forever.

― RickyT (RickyT), Sunday, 20 July 2003 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

"Wall's Viennetta is still going strong"

― RickyT (RickyT), Sunday, 20 July 2003 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

i love mintz. a smokers shield.
classic if the girl has on before giving head.

― kephm, Sunday, 20 July 2003 12:03 (twenty-three years ago)

That promo site Ricky links to really hams it up.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 20 July 2003 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

A very good candidate for my favourite sentence, from Gravity's Rainbow, the War's Evensong episode (p130):

In the pipefitters' sheds, icicled, rattling when the gales are in the Straits, here's thousands of old used toothpaste tubes, heaped often to the ceilings, thousands of somber man-mornings made tolerable, transformed to mint fumes and bleak song that left white spots across the quicksilver mirrors from Harrow to Gravesend, thousands of children who pestled foam up out of soft mortars of mouths, who lost easily a thousands times as many words among the chalky bubbles - bed-going complaints, timid announcements of love, news of fat or translucent, fuzzy or gentle beings from the country under the counterpane - uncounted soapy-loquorice moments spat and flushed down to sewers and the slow-scumming grey estuary, the morning mouths growing with the day tobacco and fish-furred, dry with fear, foul with idleness, flooded at thoughts of impossible meals, settling instead for the week's offal in gland pies, Household Milk, broken biscuits at half the usual points, and isn't menthol a marvelous invention to take just enough of it away each morning, down to become dusty oversize bubbles tessellating tough and stagnant amont the tar shorelines, the intricate draftmanships of outlets feeding, multiplying out to sea, as one by one these old toothpaste tubes are emptied and returned to the War, heaps of dimly fragant metal, phantoms of peppermint in the winter shacks, each tube wrinkled or embossed by the unconcious hands of London, written over in interference-pattersn, hand against hand, waiting now - it is true return - to be melted for solder, for plate, alloyed for castings, bearings, gasketry, hidden smokeshriek linings the children of that other domestic incarnation will never see.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 20 July 2003 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I dislike mint flavoured things.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 20 July 2003 12:35 (twenty-three years ago)

offal in gland pies!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 20 July 2003 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

YUM!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 20 July 2003 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

i like the smell of mint far more than the taste

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 20 July 2003 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

stevem = OTM!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 20 July 2003 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I grow several different varieties of mint in my herb garden. The strangest one by far is the pineapple mint plant, which tastes odd but is quite nice in fruit salads.

― C J (C J), Sunday, 20 July 2003 12:50 (twenty-three years ago)

mint is rhizomatic!! deleuze and guattari to thread!!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 20 July 2003 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah mint's good y'know

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 20 July 2003 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

There's this plant in the gardens my friends have which is apparently a mint-like weed -- not to be used AS edible mint, but it grows in many spots and when crushed, you can definitely get that rush.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 July 2003 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I love fresh mint leaves -- the ones that are a little fuzzy. Chewing them is a very nice tactile sensation all the way around. I love when I'm out hiking or whatever and find a little mint patch -- a nice refreshing snack. Mmmm.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Sunday, 20 July 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

(lemon basil leaves are nice as well)

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Sunday, 20 July 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I like it on lamb. And I always liked Fox's Glacier Mints (except when they aged and became chewy), but that was probably mostly down to the nice polar bear in the ads.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 July 2003 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

all polar bears are nice

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 20 July 2003 18:22 (twenty-three years ago)

except those Coke-guzzling ones, freaks.

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 20 July 2003 18:22 (twenty-three years ago)

There is very little that cannot be done with mint. Use it in sweets and savouries! In drinks alcoholic and temperant! To clean your mouth and body! Dilute! Dilute! OK!

Wintergreen, however, is vile.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Sunday, 20 July 2003 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that a real variety of mint or just an invention of Dr Wrigley's? I like it anyway. But I get bored with mints too. A whole packet of menthol cigarettes - yuck.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 20 July 2003 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't stand mint. In a world where I was all-powerful, mint would be one of the first things to go.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 20 July 2003 22:59 (twenty-three years ago)

If I ever get married, my husband will not be allowed to brush his teeth with mint-tasting paste, for I shall not kiss him if he does.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 20 July 2003 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You are a cruel mistress.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 July 2003 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, it's preferable to vomiting in his mouth, yes?

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 20 July 2003 23:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree with mark, although there is one horrific exception...

Disneyland's Mint Julep at the Blue Bayou..

Toothpaste soda, anyone?

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 20 July 2003 23:06 (twenty-three years ago)

As a kid, I had of course DISCOVERED the amazing property mint has where once you swish the oils around in your mouth, and you drink water afterwards, it turns the water ICE COLD. I had many ambitious to profit off this plan as a kid in the form of pro-mint marketing campaigns during the hot summer months.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 20 July 2003 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I love fresh mint to use in cooking. However, I HATE mint gum -- I associate it with a lot of smokers I have known and the combined scent of heavy cigarette smoke and mint gum is one of the most nauseating smells I know.

― Larcole (Nicole), Sunday, 20 July 2003 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Just last night I harvested some peppermint from my backyard to use in a spinach pie. It turned out badasstacular!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 21 July 2003 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

It gave you diahorrea?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 July 2003 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Wintergreen comes from berries, I think; I remember this from Little House On The Prairie books.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 21 July 2003 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Totally off topic, but Donut Bitch, I played one of your trax0r at muh little disco the other night, and it was Good.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 21 July 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

mark tell the truth

did you start this thread just so you could say mintalist?

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 21 July 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Breyer's mint chocolate chip ice cream (and not the "lite" variety, mind) is H-E-A-V-E-N. It's so minty it gives your mouth that little tingle, which can't be said of many (often green-colored) mint chocolate chip ice creams.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 21 July 2003 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.icecreamusa.com/products/images/large/77567-25424_large.jpg

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 21 July 2003 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

all polar bears are nice

His Dark Materials Trilogy fans to thread!

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 21 July 2003 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

We got some of that (Breyers Mint Chocolate Chip) in our freezer right now.
I'm addicted to Altoids. I eat like 40 tins of Altoids a day.

― NA the Billion Dollar Hobo (Nick A.), Monday, 21 July 2003 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

mark P: no i started it bcz i love MINT!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 July 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I admit with some reluctance that I ate an entire gallon of Breyer's mint chocolate chip ice cream this weekend.

Do we prefer red-and-white mint sucking candies or mint chocolates as an after-dinner treat?

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 21 July 2003 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I strikes me that many Americans are gluttons.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 July 2003 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a documented fact!

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 21 July 2003 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark S. you rule!

― m.s (m .s), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 07:56 (twenty-three years ago)

haha ms (= not me btw but m**y***?) surely i merely recycle

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 08:25 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was little, I hated Breyer's mint chocolate chip because it wasn't green.

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

...and now?

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

but peppermint ice cream!! peppermint ice cream!!!!! with little bits of hard peppermints sending minty red nebulas outwards through the ice cream! OH MY GOD. i need some of this now (but where to get??)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Friendly's!

(This was what I loved about them as a kid; they had peppermint stick ice cream year round.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mint is classic!

Mint Tea from fresh mint = yum

And the ultimate is the glory that is Tabboulah:

Handfull of Mint Leaves finely chopped, Handfull of Parsley (pref curly to hold the juice) leaves finely chopped, Handful of Bulghar wheat soaked for 15 minutes, juice of one lemon, 3 tomatoes finely chopped, 3 spring onions finely chopped, big load of extra virgin olive oil and plenty of seasoning = ultimate salad ever. Eat with Goats Cheese or Lamb, and scoop up with lettuce leaves for ultimate results. Perfect summer food.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 01:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, it is m-n, and I think you don't recycle, you're too brilliant

― m.s (m .s), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 03:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Starlight mints always feel special, even though you've had them all your life. Yummy.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 04:24 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.ebaynham.com/Merchant2/graphics/skbl_lg.gif

― Dada, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 05:12 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.joemaller.com/desk/desk050.jpg

plus when you crunch them with the lights off, they set off warm green thundersparks in your mouth.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 05:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I miss mint Spangles. Why did they stop making those?

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 06:17 (twenty-three years ago)

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