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A brief history of Peppermint Crisp and Mint Cracknel

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Peppermint Crisp (and Mint Cracknel)

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The basics

A milk chocolate bar filled with bright green mint-flavored cracknel (brittle, sugary, crackly sort of thing).

The place

South Africa and Great Britain

The story

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