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On 11/25/2014 10:17 AM, S Viemeister wrote:
> On 11/25/2014 9:16 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>>> I think "Scotch" mints are just the US name for Mint Imperials, the
>>> only other kind of mint are Glacier mints.

>>
>> I can not currently find anything in this country, online or otherwise
>> that are labeled as Scotch. I do remember getting some in bulk in a
>> store that is no longer there but can't remember what they called them.
>> They tasted and looked just like what I got in Canada.
>>
>> The ones in your pic look flatter and bigger around than the ones I
>> remember.

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> The ones I remember (in Scotland) were called pan drops.
>


"Pan drops" were really something I had forgotten but I remember them
now. They were white and fairly hard weren't they? I also remember
Glacier Mints: transparent, colorless, hard candies. I shall have to
look in a few import stores.

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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