Mail-Order Mintsters

April 18, 2008 12:53 PM

Mint me, MeFi! What are the best mints I can mail-order from Canada?

I have looked through the archives for this, because I'm suprised it hasn't been AskMe'd before, but there doesn't seem to be a lot on the subject of mints/other small flavourful thingies. Perhaps my search-fu is weak.

I'm looking for little candies/mints/whatever that pack massive amounts of flavour and can be ordered online for shipment to Canada. Essentially as a mid-afternoon snack-killing strategy: if I can taste something, I usually lose those pointless "eat-to-taste" cravings.

I'm not fussy when it comes to taste. I like almost everything: licorice, chocolate, mint, whatnot.

I appreciate other "flavourful" suggestions, but please: I really want something in a mint-like "format" -- small, hard candies, easily stored and transported. Not nuts, nor pickles, nor gum, nor anchovies. Mint-esque suggestions only, please. Low sugar a plus but not a must.

I also want reasonable bulk -- I wouldn't balk at ordering a dozen tins at a time of Altoids (were I able to do so), for instance.

Already tried:
Tic-Tacs: fine; could be stronger.
Altoids: Okay. Unfortunately, altoids.com doesn't allow Canadian orders.
Hint Mints: love the tin, but basically sugar candy.
Jelly Bellys: not really appropriate, but okay to suck on; too easy to eat en masse.
Cough drops: Horrible. Horrible. Horrible.
Fruit drops: Bought coming back from England once; too much just hard candy.
Hoof mints: Caribou Coffee does not ship to Canada.

posted by Shepherd to food & drink (9 comments total)

Fisherman's Friends. Available in Canada too it seems.
posted by le morte de bea arthur at 2:05 PM on April 18, 2008

Also look for 'Mighty Imps' if you want an incredible concentrated liquorice/menthol hit.
posted by le morte de bea arthur at 2:08 PM on April 18, 2008

I'd say either Jolly Ranchers or those tiny blue wrapped mints that restaurants often give out. If I were looking for something like that, I'd hit Bulk Barn, Superstore, or Costco, rather than ordering online; I think the savings from online bulk ordering would be made up by the savings in shipping when you buy locally.

If the requirement for online ordering is because you live far away from those kind of stores, I (or many other Canadians, I suspect) would happily ship you a huge supply of the required mints.
posted by pocams at 2:16 PM on April 18, 2008

I love these, especially the licorice-mint ones, but they only ship to the USA. I've seen them in hipster-type stores in Toronto, though.
posted by rokusan at 2:58 PM on April 18, 2008

This may seem odd, but go look at your local office-supply store. They often sell very basic candy in larger quantities than you can get at the store, including (possibly) some of those old-fashioned red-and-white peppermints.
posted by Johnny Assay at 3:00 PM on April 18, 2008

A nice little combination of mint and licorice is Amarelli's Bianconeri: Valoroso in Okanagan imports them, and if they can't arrange mail-order, they might know someone further east who does. (Other potential options: L'Épicerie Européenne in Québec, or Fruiterie Milano in Montréal.)
posted by holgate at 3:59 PM on April 18, 2008

Does it have to be by mail order? Are Altoids not in stores where you are?
posted by winston at 4:11 PM on April 18, 2008

Despite your objection to gum, I would recommend you go to Costco and get a large box of Dentyne Ice gum.

But I'm really here to recommend Sen Sen candies. They're like very concentrated little pellets of black liquorice. They are the size of those nerd candies. I worked at a convenience store many moons ago, and we bought one box a year for the above 50 crowd.

Intense flavor. You'll remember it.
posted by sleslie at 8:25 PM on April 18, 2008

I'm here to tell you to buy something else when you buy Sleslie's Sen Sens, because it will take a lot of something to get that horrible, horrible taste of soap flakes out of your mouth.

I still have flashbacks, okay?
posted by rokusan at 10:35 PM on April 18, 2008