The sourness lasted briefly but was quite intense. Sour candies were really popular at this time, and this was a popular choice for those who wanted to have fruity candies that were also really sour. This version of Altoids was sold in apple, lime, mango, raspberry, and tangerine flavors. These little candies were covered in a sour coating that revealed a fruity hard candy underneath. These were hard little candies that were made in various fruit-inspired colors. Just like the licorice, cool honey, and ginger varieties that were made before 2007, this chocolate version of the mints did not make it.Īltoids Sours were added to the Altoids stable in 2001. There were chocolate-dipped Altoid that were sold from 2007-to 2010 in flavors like Crème de Menthe. The sugar-free version is available in the same flavors as the regular mints. There are also Sugar-Free Smalls that are sweetened with sorbitol rather than regular sugar ingredients. Other than this one brief phase, the mints have been sold under the name Altoids.Īs of today, this breath mint with the intense flavor is sold in Peppermint, Wintergreen, Spearmint, and Cinnamon. READ MORE: Candy Mascots - Top 10 Of All TimeĪltoids did spend a small amount of time being sold under the name “Nuttall’s” during a phase where Callard and Bowser were under the ownership of Terry’s. At one time, Callard & Bowser-Suchard made Altoids at a plant in Wales, but the production was moved to Tennessee in the US when Mars Wrigley took control of the brand in 2004. There is a product sold by Marks & Spencer that is similar, but UK residents might never have tried an actual Altoid. This product and the range of flavors that are offered have never been as available in the UK as in the US. There is a lot of peppermint oil used in the modern recipe, just like the old one, which accounts for the strength of the flavor. They pack a powerful punch despite their small size, and they last for quite a long time without totally dissolving. This would still apply to the flavor profile of these little mints. The transition to a breath mint happened gradually, but the Altoid brand itself made the switch in the 19 th century when it came into the hands of the Callard & Bowser company.ĭuring this period, the brand switched from a medicinal focus to being sold as “Curiously Strong Mints”. The little disc shape was easy to make using the techniques that were available during this period, and the modern candy hasn’t actually changed all that much. They were used to deliver medicines and curatives when they were first manufactured. These mints have actually been around in one form or another since the 1700s. That’s still a small price to pay for those mouth jewels of decadence.If you have not heard of Altoids Sours, you probably still are familiar with Altoids. There are brand new tins of Altoids Sours on eBay, but they run from $45 all the way up to $255 a pop. “If a product is not selling particularly well, unfortunately, we sometimes have to discontinue it.” “They were discontinued due to low national demand,” the rep told Bustle. The reason: nobody bought that shit! I know this country just doesn’t appreciate true refinement.Īccording to a Mars customer service representative, it was the former: low sales. Of course, like with many discontinued items, there’s a group of Altoids Sourheads who have been begging for its return! So a couple of years ago, Bustle wrote to the customer service department of Mars, Altoids’ maker, to ask why it was sent to the luxury candy graveyard. But sadly, by 2010, Altoids stopped giving its customers a case of the fruity puckers by shit-canning its sour candies. I thought tangerine was the lone sour Altoid. Every flavor but tangerine gets the “ I don’t know her” label from me because I didn’t even know they existed until today. Flavors included the iconic tangerine, as well as raspberry, citrus, apple, mango, and passion fruit. They were like Warheads for those who prefer the finer things in life. I thought that because they came in a tin, they were the peak of decadence! And if Altoids Sours were around when I was in junior high school, I definitely would’ve handed them out all regal-like, and my bullies definitely would’ve said to me, “ Oh, look something that’s almost as fruity and sour as you!”Īltoids’ line of sours came out in 2001. When I did, you’d think that THE QUEEN herself just anointed me Lady of The Opulent Mints by how I offered those drugstore mints out as though they were edible diamonds in a vintage platinum case. I didn’t discover Altoids until junior high school. Altoids have been around so long that I’m sure Keith Richards used one of its first-run tins to hold his coke and straw (they came out in the 1780s).
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