Peppermint is....
 

Vote first, then read on if interested.....

big UK/US difference here, I think. Am sort of getting used to it, but still hard to understand that when Hebe says her "peppermint" sweater, she means the red, pink and white striped one....) ...to me it's white ..or green as a second option -an "away" strip if you will.....

so white and red is a quick-and-away winner..but despite living here 9 years, that's just not peppermint colors to me. white. and green if there has to be a second

Well, technically it is GREEN, because it is a plant after all! But I voted white.

I voted green, because it's a plant. If I'd known you were talking about clothing color, I probably would have voted pink.

Same here. Actually, I was thinking about the candy. It's usually white with pink stripes. But sometimes I think it's white with green stripes. But when used to decribe color for clothes, it would be pink and white stripes.

Candy Canes? White and red.

It's a flavour. Do you have synaesthesia?

Green and white is spearmint.

Or wintergreen. Or is that blue? And sparky?

That reminds me. When I was a little girl, I had a book called "Peppermint" and it was about a white kitten.

Oh my GOD I found it online! I think I actually still have this book in a box somewhere.

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/image....L._AA148_.jpg

Yes, blue.

Peppermint=candy canes=white and red.

Don't complicate a simple thing people!!

Peppermint as a flavour is white of course.
If someone I knew had a cat called Peppermint I would completely expect it to be white.

But I would not expect peppermint to be used as a description for clothing, I admit. Unlike Duck egg, a food stuff which I consider to be completely acceptable as a colour.

What else... Hmmm.
Butter/ buttermilk
Honey
Corn (usually hair)
Chocolate
Coffee
Mustard

Funny - all of the above vary in colour, but if I read that someone was wearing a chocolate coloured suit I would NOT expect it to be white!

It's not just candy canes tho, round mints are red and white too. But not in the UK. You just wouldn't expect a red and white candy to be peppermint. You just wouldn't. Spearmint is a sort of nasty lime green. I love peppermint, I HATE spearmint.

Round mints too?
Urgh!
Red is berry, everyone knows that!

Acceptable colours for mint sweets: white, black and white, blue, blue and white, a sort of greeny-blue, greey-blue stripes.

Red and white? Goodness, no that's a fruit sweet!

Peppermint is white. Chocolate covered peppermint is yummy. I mean brown on white and packaged green. I never see green or pink peppermint creme although there probably is.

Packaging can be green if it's tea and blue if it's mints like the ones in the rolls. Peppermint gum is white packaged blue.

Mint ice cream is green. Peppermint ice cream is pink.

That candy cane color is well you know white with pink stripes. Prior to the 1900 peppermint candy canes were all white.

I hate starlight mints..they look like a candy cane. I don't like candy canes unless they are the soft natural peppermint ones which are all white.

I can see how a kid will think pink stripes is a festive Christmas color dubbed peppermint but in Easter the color of peppermint
( or mint )changes to green.

Peppermint oil is clear.

For Sundae: :P

I picked red and green. I guess I'm just wierd. :rolleyes:

Weird? No, it means you're an individual.;)

We are ALL individuals!

Some are collectives, aggregates, while others are distilled essences.:p

Bruce, honey, nobody wants to hear about your distilled essence...

:lol2:

Heeheee @ Peppermint Patty! Love those Peanuts!

Red and White.

The Color of proper Candy Canes and those round swirl mints that are wrapped in plastic twisted on each end. I don't hold with this new-fangled colored stuff, although I do sometimes like the fruit-flavored more colorful candy canes. But if you get the red and white you know where you stand. Pepperminty goodness.

I'm not!

What... you don't want to hear it coming? :p

Nah, I like to be suprised!

Just thinking about it - peppermint is pink too.
But only in the case of seaside rock.

That is all.

Proper peppermint saltwater taffy is white with red stripes.

it makes a sound?

Sointly. :cool:

Mint Green

Mint Green
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I imagine that your reaction to this question is different in December when candy canes abound, and July when Mojitos and Mint Juleps are near to hand.

Candy Canes are still red and white out of season. It's not like they go bad and turn green on January 1st.

yabbut... it's all about the power of suggestion....that's MY point

Starbrite mints are available year round, bucko.

so are knuckle sammiches

The Legend Of Candy Canes
 

Lumberjim Vs Wolf ... hmmm, that'd be an interesting match-up.

(Hang on, didn't that happen in Little Red Riding Hood?)

no inciting, bub.

Not just candy canes, which are seasonal, these are year round.