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brand of

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flavoured

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, manufactured by

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. Originally known as Opal Mints, they were plain white coloured chewy

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flavoured sweets, launched as a sister product to Opal Fruits (now known as

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). The product was subsequently relaunched as Pacers around 1976, and later, three green

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stripes were added to the sweet, possibly to align it with a similar American product of the same name.Berry, Steve & Norman, Phil. ''The Great British Tuck Shop'', Friday Books, 2012. pp.230–31 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". The brand was discontinued in 1985. At one point the

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football team were nicknamed "The Pacers" because of the similarity of their kit to the sweets.

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