Monday, January 27, 2003
Mission accomplished! 10 yuppie markets, 3 drug stores, 1 book store and 1 Safeway later…
When all else fails, thank heaven… for 7-11, of all places — and just across from work, too! The inventory was untouched, of course, and the clerk looked at me as if I had grown three heads (“Ginger,” she said, shaking her head. “I think I like that in teriyaki.”). So I rescued the entire stock from the philistines, display box included; some for myself, and some as “thank you” gifts for my diligent operatives. Let those who appreciate the joy of ginger be the ones to hoard it!
Anyways, I feel like I just snapped a picture of Bigfoot. Yay!
And to continue the joyfest a bit: if it wasn’t obvious above, apparently my camera has decided to work for me, for this once at least.
(Ah, see? Dead again!)
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Ginger altoids, gingered up yukinos ale-ing heart. Yet to put it gingerly, I think it’s made your mind snap.
7-11?!? Did the manager lose a bet? buy them as a joke? fill in the wrong box? I’m having a hard time believing 7-11 had Ginger Altoids on purpose. Maybe Altoids had some promotional thing, where they included a few tins of ginger in every peppermint order. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Anyway, congrats on the find.
(And check out the Sours.)
Camera go boom? :(
Obviously you need to practice playing more golf. ;P
So I e-mailed altoids.com a couple days ago about where to find Ginger Altoids, and this was their official response -
“Thank you for visiting our curiously strong website and for your inquiry on where to find Ginger
ALTOIDS.
Currently, Ginger ALTOIDS are distributed in stores around the U.S., but because of the limited number of units we produced it may be hard to find. However, if you’re having a difficult time finding it in stores, the product has become a popular item for purchase on e-Bay, the online action site.
We recommend you visit www.ebay.com and search for “Ginger Altoids.” Although we can’t guarantee that there will be some for purchase, you may likely see some available—good luck!
Please add our site, http://www.altoids.com/ , to your bookmarks and visit us again soon!”
Limited amount manufactured? Encouraging the trade of their wares on Ebay? Jim was so right! “We are being manipulated by Phillip Morris (of which Callard and Bowser is a wholly-owned subsidiary).” Can you see it people? Tulip bulbs, BeanieBabies, Altoids…
oh, they’re so excellent. you have to like ginger, of course! but i love ginger.
Can I just tell you about the amazing Beef with Ginger and Green Onion Hot Pot that I had last night at Hing Loon? F@#% yah, that was good.
You could tell me, but then you’d have to buy me some. Hmm, you seem to have just told me.
Excellent.
damn! i had no idea! the citrus sours are good. now i just have to figure out where you are relative to me and which 7-11 that is….
I must be living in a world of minty darkness! I went to 7-11 today to pick up some ginger altoids and dishwashing liquid and I couldn’t find any here. I couldn’t find all the other ALTOIDS flavors everyone was talking about either. Virginia sucks!
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Excerpt: [Selva], there aren’t any [ginger altoids at 7-11] here in Richmond. I’m disappointed.... [more »]
YES, EARTHLINGS I HAVE SOLD OVER 200 GINGER ON EBAY AND NOW THEY ARE NOT AVAILABLE FOR THE QUANTITIES ARE DISAPPEARING AS FAST AS A COMET!
7-11 IN CERTAIN PARTS OF THE BAY AREA CLAIMS THAT THEY CAN NO LONGER GET THEM AND THEY REPLACED THEM WITH SPEARMINT.
MY BOUNTY HUNTERS ON THE EAST COAST MENTIONED THE FACT THAT THEY WERE DISTRIBUTED THROUGH VARIOUS VENDORS TO US ON THE WEST COAST FIRST.
THIS IS WHY A LOT OF BUYERS OF GINGER ALTOIDS HAVE UTILIZED EBAY FROM THE EAST COAST. SEVERAL TRANSMISSIONS WERE INTERCEPTED TO PROVIDE YOU WITH THIS VALUABLE REPORT.
IT IS A GOOD THING THAT I HAVE 50 TINS LEFT ALTHOUGH I WOULD CONSIDER TRADING THEM FOR REBEL SPIES! [—o—] [—o—] [—o—] [—o—] [—o—]
ALSO, I HAD ALL FLAVORS. I STILL HAVE ALL OF THE LIMITED EDITION TINS FOR SALE. I HAVE SOME OF THE SMALL “TINY TINS” AND THE SOURS! I SOLD OUT OF THE TANGERINE FLAVOURS. I WILL HAVE TO GO BACK TO TATOOINE TO REPLINISH!
IF YOU HAVE A DESIRE FOR THEM JUST GO TO EBAY AND PUNCH IN ALTOIDS IN THEIR SEARCH BOX. THIS WILL LEAD YOU TO A PAGE AND YOU WILL FIND ME.
CURRENTLY, I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO OFFERS THE THREE LIMITED EDITION TINS (FURTHERMORE, I AM THE ONLY ONE IN THE PAST THREE MONTHS WITH THE BEST PRICES)UNDER $5.00 AND IF YOU WERE TO BUY THEM AT 7-11, YOU WOULD PAY $6.00!
FOR ALL OF YOU WHO LIVE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA I AM RIGHT BY YOU AND FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT, WELL YOU HAVE OPTIONS!
LET US SEE WHO IS CLEVER ENOUGH TO FIND ME AND E-MAIL ME. IF YOU DO, THERE WILL BE A “FREE BONUS” JUST FOR YOU. IF YOU CAN FIND ME AT EBAY, THEN E-MAIL ME THROUGH EBAY AND SEND ME A TRANSMISSION (E-mail) WITH THE CODE WORD” HOTH.
THIS WILL PROVE THAT YOU WERE CLEVER ENOUGH TO FIND ME! MY NAME IS HERE FOR ALL TO SEE. THE ONE THING I LEARNED IN LIFE IS NEVER TO BE BOXED IN WITH ONE SUPPLIER!
IN CLOSING, IF IT IS INFORMATION THAT YOU SEEK, I WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO PROVIDE YOU WITH ANSWERS. I DO HAVE SOME VERY INTERISTING ITEMS: CANVAS 1988 LIMITED EDITION “POLAR SOUL” BY DARIO ROBLETO. IF YOU ARE A TRUE FAN OF ALTOIDS, THEN YOU WILL KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT.
ALSO PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM NOT UTILIZING THIS SITE TO ENDORSE SALES OF ANY KIND OR IN ANY FORM, IF YOU TRULY SEEK INFORMATION, CONTACT ME, INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL BE FREE!
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darthoz
“IF you have knowledge, then let others light their candles by it!”-Fuller.
Entry: "How to eat only 15 cookies — and get away with it."
Excerpt: Trader Joe’s carries Chocolate Cats Cookies (for people), which are little chocolate cookies. They’re quite good, look like little cats and 15 of them are 2 points. The problem is that they don’t come 15 to a tub. Before taking…... [more »]
Ginger Altoids are great! I can’t find them in New York. I bought a single tin ina supermarket in Hawaii. I wish I wuld have bought more! They really are great, but yeah you have to like ginger.
The supermarket was Daei in Waipahu, (Ewa Beach), Hawaii where I found the Ginger Altoids.
I can’t begin to tell you how upset I am. As a traveling salesman, I found some ginger altoids one day. I found them quite refreshing. The next couple days were bliss. Then I started to notice the tin was begining to dwindle. Then I started trying to remember what town, and what store I bought them.
Still looking.
Moose
I think Sashafoo was right. A local supermarket chain got some in “in a drop shipment” and I’ve been after them ever since for more.
my wife loves ginger. I found some @ a 7 - 11 store in gardena california. But they have no more.
LOOKS LIKE I AM THE LUCKY ONE TO BE WORKING IN THE ALTOIDS FACTORY IN SOUTH WALES. DONT DISPARE HOPEFULLY WITH THE INTEREST YOU ALL SHOW THIS FLAVOUR WILL BE ADDED TO THE ALTOIDS RANGE. WELSHMAN.(WALES FOR THE WORLD CUP)
HAH! Through this hilarious web phenomenon, I find other like-minded souls—people who can experience and appreciate that heightened pleasure in what the masses regard as at best mundane, at worst repulsive—spiced candy! The kind of heighted pleasure that brings about such obsessive Spiced-Candy Quests. Cheers to you all!
When I too most unexpectedly found those wonderful Ginger Altoids Christmas Day ‘02 at a Dallas 7-11 half-price/close-out counter, I excitedly bought that lone remaining box. A one-dollar Christmas gift to myself, I ate 80% that day and then tried to conserve the rest, but, alas, that tin was empty by New Years. Found them again 6 months later unexpectedly at another 7-11, and readily paid full price for their entire stock of 5 tins. Their general unavailability is frustrating—especially with the omnipresence of the those regular flavor altoids at every store checkout. What’s the deal Collard & Bowser?! Spearmint (merely pleasant) just doesn’t do it. We don’t need Sours—We gots to have GINGERS!!!!!!!!
Another unsatisfied spiced-candy-quest obsession: Blackjack (licorice) gum & Clove gum — its manufacturer puts it on the market only for brief and infrequent (once a decade or so) special promotions. Why are we forced to go on these Spiced-Candy Quests—Can’t we just walk into
a Safeway and just pick up ONE item at the checkout like a [normal] person?!
[Rant Ended—back to work]
I’m way behind. I’ve just returned from the States to Hertford, England having discovered Cinnamon and Wintergreen flavour - both are brilliant. I would love to try ginger flavour (yes, I too love ginger).Can all these flavours be bought in England or does the Welshman sell them at the Altoids factory? (Wales for worldcup).
hey ill be receiving a whole shipment of these in about a week if anyone is wants some then email me and ill see what i can do. have fun. mo@burntmail.com
Hmmm, I really want some, anyone have any idea if they’ve reached Michigan yet? Anyway, I have a friend in Nebraska looking for them too. I heard they were actually made by Kraft, which seems odd that Collard and Bowser is still on the tins. But anywho, maybe if Kraft has like a company tour thingy like Hershey’s does, we can get them there. Plus if you check out my website, I drew some tins in pixel art :)
http://www.clorders.com/altoids.htm
Found a way to order them online without Ebay.
I didn’t even know ginger Altoids existed! I was heartbroken to read that they couldn’t be found in New York. I’ll have to join you in finding them where I can. My friends and family all think I’m insane because of my alphebetized 5-tier storage chest of spices. I love them, and I adore ginger. I have seen the clove gum, etc., at Fanny Farmers. Happy hunting!
David…Thanks for the info. Shame on others trying to make maajpr bucks on our discriminating taste.
I have found ginger altoids at both costplus world market and trader joes.
In Southern California at least they are available at Trader Joe’s. Can’t say anywhere else. They are also available on my desk.
Entry: "Ginger Altoids"
Excerpt: Yes, Ginger Altoids. These. So what? So buy some. I found these in Target one day, and they are fiercely strong. They are something like twice as strong as Old Tyme Jamaican Style Ginger Beer, which is so unfindable that…... [more »]
I LOVE GINGER!!!!!
Guess I’ll be calling 7-11 stores!!!
Or candy wholesale store.
….and here I thought these wonderful Ginger Altoids were brand-new.
I just tasted these babies for the first time yesterday, my son ran across them somewhere. I love ginger, and I also suffer from acid-reflux disease. (Doesn’t everyone nowadays??) These are just the ticket.
And yeah, why can’t you find BlackJack & Clove gum all the time? And don’t forget Teaberry.
The Altoids website has been updated so you can get the candies directly from them, minimum order of six tins.
http://www.altoidsshoppe.com
I am so happy I can get Ginger Altoids any time now and intend to stock up on them. Did you know ginger cures nausea, especially motion sickness?
They ARE OUT OF STOCK! WHat could this mean? Are they discontinuing the greatest of all Altoids?
I enjoyed the ginger altoids, but they are hard to find in South Carolina. I found it once at a Walmart, but no more. Anybody know where to find it in the lower east.
I Love Love Love Ginger Altoids!!!!
They are difficult to aquire however worth evry oz of effort.
DrSODA.com has them online for 1.95 a tin. If you like Giner altoids you should try GINGER People GINGER CHEWS!!!! also seach online I found them in bulk for the best price at GingerPeople.com
Do you think this paaion could be left over from always wanting to be Ginger On Gilligans Island???
I have seen Ginger Altoids at several WORLD MARKET ( part of Cost Plus out of California) stores across the country. Last time in Maryland. Go to WORLDMARKET.COM to get the location of a store closest to your zip code.
Good Luck and enjoy!!!!!
I thought I was the only one…in Northern Minnesota target quit selling them..now Im not sure what to do…
-I was hooked a couple years ago when a coworker had some but couldnt remember where he got them from (very annoying).
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
thee sitting careless on a granary floor…
(Keats ‘To Autumn’, so don’t bug me about it)
Yay!! Yay!! Yay!! hey…where’s mine?