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Product type | Mint |
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Owner | Mars, Inc. |
Country | United Kingdom |
Introduced | ? (as "Pacers" in 1976) [1] |
Discontinued | 1985[1] |
Pacers is a discontinued British brand of mint flavoured confection, manufactured by Mars. [2]
Originally known as "Opal Mints", [3] they were plain white coloured chewy spearmint flavoured sweets, launched as a sister product to Opal Fruits (now known as Starburst). The product was subsequently relaunched as Pacers around 1976, and later, three green peppermint stripes were added to the sweet, [4] possibly to align it with a similar American product of the same name. [5] Television commercials for the sweet alluded to sport and fitness, with participants wearing green and white-striped kit, featuring the slogan "Peppermint striped for two-mint freshness". [5] The brand was discontinued in 1985.
At one point the Glasgow Celtic football team were nicknamed "The Pacers" because of the similarity of their kit to the sweets. [6]