Brian notified us of a grave problem affecting Long Island that’s nearly as depressing as the Islanders’ suckage — the dearth of cinnamon Tic Tacs. He writes:
So, this sounds like a silly topic, but I figured with all the bank failures and credit card problems on the site, something light hearted might be nice.
I have noticed in the stores, there are NO cinnamon Tic Tacs anymore. I have tried various stores, and unless the tic tacs are old, no stores have them.
I HAVE seen a new Christmas Tic Tac that has cinnamon and mint (red + white), but that’s it.
The rest of the world still gets cinnamon, which continues to be listed as a standard flavor on the Tic Tac website. So what’s going on here? Has someone on Long Island horded the cinnamon delights or is there a trade embargo in effect?
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You know, I submit a quite a few tips to Consumerist that are A MILLION times better than this story, but as usual, I get a “we’ll look into it” response. Maybe I’ll start emailing my tips directly to Phil.
@temporaryscars: C’mon, this is a real story!
@temporaryscars: You’re not alone.
@post_break: I’ve had relatively decent success at getting my tips posted, but there are a few I’m surprised I never saw.
@temporaryscars: agreed, i got we’ll look into it almost a year ago about me spending like 4 hours dealing with linksys support, i even have replies in my email from consumerist asking me if i sent the old one in for replacement, but they never replied after that, pretty sad because i had all the evidence lined up, even these screenshots showing the call log on my phone.
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@krztov: @krztov: Yours sounds like more of a non-story than the tic-tacs. 4 whole hours? How did you pull through?
@temporaryscars: Aww, poor you.
@temporaryscars: Did you provide a launching board for unreasonable (yet: so FUN!) pitiable mocking of either New Jersey, or failing that Long Island?
If not, you’re doing something wrong.
@temporaryscars: Do you really think complaining that your stories haven’t been posted endears you to either the other readers or the Consumerist staff? I know if I read your whining here, I certainly would make it a point never to post anything you sent in.
I’ve noticed that you can’t get Flaming Hot Cheetos outside of the Mid-West. I’ve lived in Chicago, Florida and New York, and I can only find them in Chicago.
What gives with that?
@CoarseLive: We have them here in South Carolina.
@tgrwillki: NC too.
@K-Bo: San Francisco, as well.
@CoarseLive: they are the most popular chip/snack here in south texas. try em with nacho cheese. i remember bout ten years back there was a wheat shortage and fritos stopped make funyons and other chips just to stay up with the hot cheetos demand. hispanic kids grow up thinking spicy is candy, if you guys ever visit mexico about half the candy is cover in spicy powder similar to lucas (its a candy).
@firemunkie: Don’t forget Limon. That stuff is so tart.
@CoarseLive: I always see then up here near chicago. And also the rip-off brand that i believe are called flaming curls, or something to that nature (i know it has “curls” in the name). I always thought the flaming hots were better (especially the lime ones).
@firemunkie: Yeah it’s true, a lot of hispanic kids do tend to think spicy is a candy flavor and I know exactly what kind too lol. Although I’m part mexican I only really liked the limon lucas.
@CoarseLive: Also Atlanta. In fact, my coworker’s brother works for Frito-Lay, and deals exclusively in the Flamin’ Hot products.
@CoarseLive:
I’ve seen them in Chicago before.
@CoarseLive: We have them in Texas, as well as the Limon.
@CoarseLive: Northwest has them all over the place
@CoarseLive: they’re in Florida now, at some publix locations.
@The Porkchop Express: and 7-11 sometimes.
@CoarseLive: yup atlantas got em, but you know i’ve been looking for the flaming hot BAKED cheetos and, cant find them anywhere… now thats a product i would buy more of if they had them in Atlanta
Philly has um
I can report there are no cinnamon tic-tacs on the central Connecticut shoreline either (unless Walmart has them, but I’m not going to check there).
My advice to the OP is to write a letter to the maker of Tic-Tacs (Ferraro, according to wikipedia) and demand to know why there are no cinnamon flavored tic-tacs in your area. In my experience, such a letter will result in one of two things: a handful of coupons for tic-tacs (and no response as to why you can’t obtain them in cinnamon flavor), or a case of free cinnamon-flavored tic-tacs.
Good luck. =)
@339point4: Hey, we live in the same general area. No comment on the tic-tacs, though. I’ve never noticed.
@aloe vera: Pfft. Just got some in Clinton a couple weeks ago.
If you’re from Long Island bad breath is the least of your problems.*
*Said with love!
@ExtraCelestial: I had a geology professor in college who was very fond of pointing out that Long Island was glacial waste, the equivalent of a prehistoric landfill.
@H3ion: I never really thought of it that way. Very interesting.
For those not from Long Island, the island was formed as a glacier moved south. As it melted, it dumped rocks, silt etc.
@ExtraCelestial: Long Island is the only thing stopping our Northern Overlords from rolling southward and conquering us, simply because they favor the aesthetic pleasure of a maple leaf flag flying from The White House.
Not because they fear it, but because they don’t want to KEEP it.
On a tangent… Why the hell are tic tacs pumped full of artificial colors in the US? As silly as it sounds, I buy mine via a friend in Toronto.
Up there, they color the container, not the candy.
@shockmonk3y: But the candy needs to be colored or else someone can mess with you by switching your delicous tic tacs. Imagine the horror of eating what you think will be an orange tic tac, only to discover it is wintergreen!!!
@Trance1861:
*looks around all shifty-like*
you mean… someone would dare touch my TicTacs?
@Trance1861: Wintergreen is the most disgusting flavor EVER. I refuse to eat it in any form.
@Trance1861: “Booger” is my least favorite Tic-Tac.
Followed by “Menstrual Mint” (which, also being red, I’ve had more than I’d have chosen willingly).
I knew something was up with red tic-tacs! I have major problems finding them, as far as I know there are only 2 stores in my city that still sell them.
No cinnamon tic-tacs in my area too…west philly suburbs. It’s been this way for a couple years, one day I looked and they were all gone. Cinnamon is the only flavour I like. Once in a great while I’ll find a cinnamon, but it’s rare. I thought they stopped making them!
But they always have orange – gross.
@catniplover: I LOVE the orange ones, I have no clue why. Although Tic Tacs usually aren’t my first buy when it comes to stuff like that, ice breakers all the way.
@catniplover: Do not besmirch the good name of the orange Tic-Tacs!
@h3llc4t has a slow work day: The orange ones aren’t bad, but when I get then I find myself eating them more like candy than mints.
Stock up for your personal use and then get rich with your cornered market!!!
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They’re available on Amazon in a 24 pack. I think they ship to Long Island but you may have to bring them in by boat.
@H3ion: My husband laughed at me for ordering Cinnamon Breathsavers from Amazon when the local stores stopped carrying them. I live in Southwest Virginia. The Republican candidate for governor has allegedly said that we don’t need lower grocery taxes out here because we hunt our own food. Maybe that’s the problem. Anyone know how to get a hunting license for tic-tacs?
When I was in Florida this weekend, I noticed that Publix was stocking Tim Tams under the Pepperidge Farm label. Foolishly, I didn’t buy any as I felt the combination of chocolate coating on the biscuit and the long drive home spent in too much Florida heat wouldn’t end well. Now that I’m back in North Carolina, I have yet to find those. Damn you, Florida weather!
@JulesNoctambule: Tim Tams? Real Ozzie Tim Tams? [checks driving time to Florida]
@JulesNoctambule:
They are real Aussie Tim Tams, though the special edition ones I still get from my Aussie friends I have a package (pepridge farms) here in Jersey but I can’t remember where it’s from. I believe last time I was hounding them they sold them in a Delaware food chain and south from there. And for some reason a winery down in south Jersey that my parents go to occasionally has real Aussie Tim Tams, seek and you will find. Thank god I don’t live in OZ anymore or I’d be 500 lbs.
More importantly, why are ginger and licorice Altoids so hard to find?
@vladthepaler: My grocery store carries “Newman’s Own” version of the ginger altoids. They taste the same to me. If you have an organic section check there, you might get lucky!
@vladthepaler: The chocolate-dipped ginger Altoids especially. mmmm.
@_catlike_: Oh god, those are soooooo good.
@vladthepaler: Never heard of ‘em. Not sure I’d try them either.
@vladthepaler: Aw man. Could it be because they are disgusting and everybody realizes it?
@vladthepaler: Because I squat in my TJ’s in Los Angeles, scarfing all the Ginger Altoids with gleeful relish, wolfing them down hungrily while motioning to the cashiers to bring me MORE from the back.
Bwah haahaahaa ha!
I make my own Tic-Tacs at home, but I hear they make you fat and cause “the gay”, so I never eat them and instead raise my own kids like people used too instead of expecting the government interwebz to do it for me.
Wait…
@ArcanaJ:
I also heard this as well about the cinnamon flavor does cause….
(Please don’t touch the orange ones)
@WatchOutNow: I suppose I could make an opposite joke about orange flavor, oranges and Anita Bryant, but that would require way too many pop culture sub-references, and I’m far too busy what with all my tic-tac making and such.
So, you know, your beloved orange ones are safe from me.
@ArcanaJ: That’s nothing. I make the ingredients that I make my Tic-Tacs out of. At home, of course. Takes about 13 hours a batch (not including growing time for the sugar) but I save almost $0.98, so of course it’s very important to inform the internet.
The 7/11 on Sunrise in West Islip used to have them all the time. Just sayin’.
Poor dear. Might have to switch to cinnamon Altoids or something.
@CFinWV:
Tic Tacs don’t have animal products – Altoids do for those whom that concerns they contain gelatin. Newman’s own mints are very tasty though and without gelatin.
Cause Long Islanders are hippies.
The Tic-Tac Overlords deemed that if a locality can’t SPELL “cinnamon”, they don’t get to BUY “cinnamon”.
It’s pretty kewl. Imagine a dictatorship, run by Grammarians. With rules instead of rifles, and a piercing, hard stare over waterboarding. And NO Cinnamon Tic-Tacs. Oh, no, there will be NO Cinnamon Tic-Tacs for you!
@Trai_Dep: Christ no, don’t go for that. If we go with the spell-it-and-you-can-have-it rule, we’d barely have any libraries and most of the country would be missing the entire month of February. Just gone, poof.
I was going to ask, “why can’t I get Herr’s Steak & Worcestershire Potato Chips in NYC?” but it appears they might not be making them anymore.
In any case, why are we deprived of meat flavored potato chips in the US? The ones I bring back from the UK are half crumbs by the time I get them home.
People actually like the cinnamon tic-tacs? I never got that. Same thing with Big Red
@gridman-srk: Love Big Red, hate cinnamon tic tacs
Sadly, can only get UTZ Crab chips (potato chips with Old Bay seasoning) in Md./Pa./Del.
Yum, crab chips.
@subtlefrog: Someone ELSE who hates eggs and mayo?
My long lost-twin!