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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'mint'

May 3, 2008

Untitled photo of race at Belmont, by Ray Haddad at flickr It may be a long hike from Lexington Ave. to Lexington, Kentucky, and even farther to Louisville, but New Yorkers are not immune to the draw of the 'sport of kings.' The 134th running of the Kentucky Derby takes place today and many people around the city will be doing what most seem to do at the races--wagering and drinking. Mapfaced has a......

Continue Reading "Run for the Roses '08"

December 1, 2007

The Hershey candy company is under fire for producing a breath mint candy that police say is hard to distinguish from an illegal drug. Philadelphia cops are complaining that a new iteration of Hershey's Ice Breakers product looks a lot like crack cocaine. When we initially read a quote from a local Philadelphia news station––"Even veteran narcotics officers acknowledged that they could not tell the difference between a package of crack cocaine and the breath......

Continue Reading "Cops: Hershey's Mints Are Crack Cocaine-y"

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