{"id":1490,"date":"2010-05-05T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/altoids-to-the-max\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:33:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:33:45","slug":"altoids-to-the-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/altoids-to-the-max\/","title":{"rendered":"Altoids to the Max!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Rogier, KJ6ETL, sent an interesting link to some inspirational projects involving Altoids tins:
http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/altoids_and_tin_cases\/<\/a> The first one that appears seems to belong somewhere else — just scroll down to find the tins.<\/p>\n

Wiki provides background info:<\/p>\n

Altoids<\/b> are a brand of breath mints<\/a> that have existed since the turn of the 19th century. Altoids are less widely available in Britain<\/a>\u2014their country of origin\u2014than in the regions to which they are exported, the standard peppermint mints being the only flavour available and only stocked in relatively few stores. Callard & Bowser-Suchard<\/a> manufacture and produce Altoids at a plant in Bridgend<\/a>, Wales<\/a>, although Wrigley<\/a>, the brand’s owner, announced in mid 2005 they planned to move Altoids’ production to an existing plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee<\/a>, in order to manufacture its products closer to where they are sold.<\/p>\n

The history of Altoids dates back to the reign of King George III<\/a>. The brand was created by a London<\/a>-based Smith & Company in the 1780s but eventually became part of the Callard & Bowser company in the 1800s. Their advertising slogan has been “The Original Celebrated Curiously Strong (insert flavour here) Mints” for a number of years, referring to the high concentration of peppermint oil<\/a> used in the original flavour lozenge. The “Story of Altoids<\/b>” text is printed on the paper liner inside certain tins.<\/p>\n

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One cautionary note: Apparently Altoids mints played a minor role in the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky mess. We won’t go into the technical details here, but suffice it to say that a collection of Altoids tins on your desk at work may raise some eyebrows among some of your colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rogier, KJ6ETL, sent an interesting link to some inspirational projects involving Altoids tins:http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/altoids_and_tin_cases\/ The first one that appears seems to belong somewhere else — just scroll down to find the tins. Wiki provides background info: Altoids are a brand of breath mints that have existed since the turn of the 19th century. Altoids are less … Continue reading “Altoids to the Max!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}