I have a huge, and I mean, huge, patch of chocolate mint along the back bank of my pond, it sure loves that wet area to say the least. But it's a great spot for it, what ever creeps into the lawn just gets mowed and I get the added benifit of smelling it when the lawn mover goes over it. I'll have to get a pic of it next spring, it really is pretty there with it's brown and green leaves and the water iris's growing through it, a very nice contrast and a great way to hold up the bank of the pond, one of the few spots the muskrats leave alone. Plus when I'm back in that area, I tend to pick a leaf to chew on as I garden, I love the taste, it's like getting some chocolate mint candy without the calories, lol. I also have Kentucky Colonel and what was sold as mountain mint, growing in drain tiles I suck into the ground to contain them. We all know how mint can spread and this keeps them in a nice neat little bunch and just big enough for my use. They have been there for years and seem fine with the arrangement, both clumps are only about a foot around. In this pic, you can see in the back, some sort of voluteer mint. I took a sample of it to a herb grower and she said it's just a mongrel. It doesn't have a distinct smell of any certain type, not one I use in cooking, but since it doesn't seem to mind the shade and does add interest to the area, I leave it, it's been there for years, I think the shade keeps it under control.

Those multi-colored little dinner mints. Yes, I like them. Y'know I was thinking about getting some of them just recently but somehow forgot when I was at the store. They were popular for things like weddings. Put them in a little paper cup mixed with peanuts or cashews. The sweet and salty taste is great. If you can't find any, let me know. I'll send you some.

All you chocolate lovers, just imagine if all of a sudden you couldn't eat chocolate anymore because it will give you abdominal pains that may last for days or you may even throw up! That's me, and it still kills, even after several years of abstaining, to see or smell anything chocolate. Just reading here about your house candy made my mouth water.

I really do not see a problem with it. I agree with wildchild. If you are responsible for children that are too young to understand NOT to drink hand sanitizer, which btw i imagine would taste so foul to a child (or anyone) that they are more likely to spit it out than chug it, then don't have it around. Better safe than sorry. Children that young should probably not have hand sanitizer on their hands anyway,scented or not. It leaves a residue and its much better to just wash their hands or wipe them off. This reminds me of the explosion of children getting sick and dying from eating Tide Pods. I am still baffled by that. HOW are children too young to know any better getting a hold of Tide Pods to eat? Tide Pods became popular around the time my nieces and nephews started arriving. My mom loves tide pods. No child in her care at her home (and there was often a LOT of em,let me tell ya, 15 and counting so far) ever got hold of a tide pod to eat. How? Well, she easily kept them out of reach. And by the time said children were tall enough to reach it, they knew better than to eat it. I would think that is common sense. But NOOOOOOOO, its apparently the manufacturers responsibility to account for parents not taking simple precautions. They had to come up with extra safety measures to make up for the lack of common sense. Its THEIR fault that because the COLORS made them look like candy. Its not the parents fault for not simply putting it away. Geez. Kids too young to know better than to drink sanitizer are too young to buy it. And its easy enough for adults with children too young to know better not to buy it either. Seems like an easy thing to avoid to me.