Junior Mints
It's from 1949, before you were born.
- Maker
- Tootsie Roll Industries
- Type
- Mint & chocolate candy
- Debuted
- 1949
- Note
- famous Seinfeld episode
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About
As of 2026, it's 77 years old.
Junior Mints are dark chocolate wrapped around cool peppermint cream — light, refreshing, and famous for the dignified way they melt at the movies. They've been around since 1949, quietly being the most elegant thing at the concession stand.
Their crowning cultural moment, naturally, involves one being dropped into a surgical patient on Seinfeld, a scene fans still quote with the reverence usually reserved for great cinema. 'It's chocolate, it's peppermint — it's delicious.'
Cool, creamy, and weirdly sophisticated for something sold in a cardboard box, Junior Mints are the candy that thinks it's at the opera.
Junior Mints through the years
Introduced
Cool peppermint creams coated in dark chocolate.
A famous Seinfeld moment
A Junior Mint mishap becomes one of TV's most-quoted scenes.
