Peppermint is....

monster • Dec 18, 2009 10:06 pm
Vote first, then read on if interested.....
monster • Dec 18, 2009 10:10 pm
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.....
monster • Dec 18, 2009 10:36 pm
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
Juniper • Dec 18, 2009 11:06 pm
Well, technically it is GREEN, because it is a plant after all! But I voted white.
Cloud • Dec 19, 2009 12:01 am
I voted green, because it's a plant. If I'd known you were talking about clothing color, I probably would have voted pink.
Tulip • Dec 19, 2009 12:34 am
Cloud;618964 wrote:
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.
piercehawkeye45 • Dec 19, 2009 1:35 am
Candy Canes? White and red.
ZenGum • Dec 19, 2009 1:39 am
It's a flavour. Do you have synaesthesia?
xoxoxoBruce • Dec 19, 2009 2:28 am
Green and white is spearmint.
Juniper • Dec 19, 2009 3:27 am
Or wintergreen. Or is that blue? And sparky?
Juniper • Dec 19, 2009 3:29 am
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.

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xoxoxoBruce • Dec 19, 2009 3:44 am
Juniper;618987 wrote:
Or wintergreen. Or is that blue? And sparky?

Yes, blue.
Trilby • Dec 19, 2009 8:37 am
Peppermint=candy canes=white and red.

Don't complicate a simple thing people!!
Sundae • Dec 19, 2009 8:57 am
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!
monster • Dec 19, 2009 9:03 am
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.
Sundae • Dec 19, 2009 9:05 am
Round mints too?
Urgh!
Red is berry, everyone knows that!
DanaC • Dec 19, 2009 9:16 am
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!
skysidhe • Dec 19, 2009 9:16 am
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.
Undertoad • Dec 19, 2009 9:22 am
Peppermint oil is clear.
DanaC • Dec 19, 2009 9:25 am
For Sundae: :P
SamIam • Dec 19, 2009 10:56 am
I picked red and green. I guess I'm just wierd. :rolleyes:
xoxoxoBruce • Dec 19, 2009 11:03 am
Weird? No, it means you're an individual.;)
DanaC • Dec 19, 2009 11:34 am
We are ALL individuals!
xoxoxoBruce • Dec 19, 2009 12:03 pm
Some are collectives, aggregates, while others are distilled essences.:p
DanaC • Dec 19, 2009 12:38 pm
Bruce, honey, nobody wants to hear about your distilled essence...
monster • Dec 19, 2009 2:37 pm
:lol2:
Shawnee123 • Dec 19, 2009 2:39 pm
Heeheee @ Peppermint Patty! Love those Peanuts!
wolf • Dec 19, 2009 3:44 pm
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.
ZenGum • Dec 19, 2009 5:27 pm
DanaC;619126 wrote:
We are ALL individuals!


I'm not!
xoxoxoBruce • Dec 19, 2009 10:24 pm
DanaC;619138 wrote:
Bruce, honey, nobody wants to hear about your distilled essence...
What... you don't want to hear it coming? :p
DanaC • Dec 19, 2009 10:29 pm
Nah, I like to be suprised!
Sundae • Dec 20, 2009 6:08 am
Just thinking about it - peppermint is pink too.
But only in the case of seaside rock.

That is all.
wolf • Dec 20, 2009 12:57 pm
Proper peppermint saltwater taffy is white with red stripes.
Happy Monkey • Dec 20, 2009 4:31 pm
Plant, green. Candy, red and white.
Cloud • Dec 20, 2009 4:37 pm
xoxoxoBruce;619278 wrote:
What... you don't want to hear it coming? :p


it makes a sound?
xoxoxoBruce • Dec 21, 2009 2:28 am
Sointly. :cool:
Spexxvet • Dec 21, 2009 4:58 pm
Mint Green

Mint Green
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Hex triplet #98FF98
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lumberjim • Dec 21, 2009 5:03 pm
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.
wolf • Dec 21, 2009 6:26 pm
lumberjim;619728 wrote:
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.
lumberjim • Dec 21, 2009 6:47 pm
yabbut... it's all about the power of suggestion....that's MY point
wolf • Dec 21, 2009 6:48 pm
Starbrite mints are available year round, bucko.
lumberjim • Dec 21, 2009 7:02 pm
so are knuckle sammiches
Nirvana • Dec 21, 2009 10:07 pm
http://www.angelrays.com/fla/legend.html
ZenGum • Dec 22, 2009 1:09 am
Lumberjim Vs Wolf ... hmmm, that'd be an interesting match-up.

(Hang on, didn't that happen in Little Red Riding Hood?)
lumberjim • Dec 22, 2009 1:14 am
ZenGum;619818 wrote:
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.
xoxoxoBruce • Dec 22, 2009 5:49 pm
Not just candy canes, which are seasonal, these are year round.