{"id":1679,"date":"2006-10-01T20:37:32","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T20:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/10\/ms_curiously_st\/"},"modified":"2006-10-01T20:37:32","modified_gmt":"2006-10-01T20:37:32","slug":"ms_curiously_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/ms_curiously_st\/","title":{"rendered":"M&#038;S Curiously Strong Mints Really Altoids In Disguise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marks &#038; Spencer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britsuperstore.com\/acatalog\/Marks_and_Spencer_Sweets.html\">Curiously Strong Mints<\/a> are just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altoids.com\/index.do\">Altoids<\/a> aren&#8217;t they? Altoids, although made in the UK (by Wrigleys), are notoriously hard to find here, whereas M&#038;S mints are, well, pretty easy to get. They also tend to be about 6p more expensive.<br \/>\nThey both have nice and awfully <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/custom?domains=makezine.com&#038;sitesearch=makezine.com&#038;q=altoids&#038;sa.x=0&#038;sa.y=0&#038;cof=GALT%3A%23008000%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3BVLC%3A663399%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BALC%3A0000FF%3BLC%3A0000FF%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A0000FF%3BGIMP%3A0000FF%3BFORID%3A1%3B&#038;client=pub-1711976718738240&#038;forid=1&#038;ie=ISO-8859-1&#038;oe=ISO-8859-1&#038;hl=en\">useful<\/a> tins though, which makes them much better to get than, say, Trebor&#8217;s Extra Strong Mints.<br \/>\nNow I just need to peel back the UK label to see what&#8217;s underneath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marks &#038; Spencer&#8217;s Curiously Strong Mints are just Altoids aren&#8217;t they? Altoids, although made in the UK (by Wrigleys), are notoriously hard to find here, whereas M&#038;S mints are, well, pretty easy to get. They also tend to be about 6p more expensive. They both have nice and awfully useful tins though, which makes them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}