Pacers (confectionery)

Pacers is a discontinued British brand of mint flavoured confection, manufactured by Mars.<ref name="Hyslop 2014">Template:Cite news</ref>

Originally known as "Opal Mints",<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> they were plain white coloured chewy spearmint flavoured sweets, launched as a sister product to Opal Fruits (now known as Starburst). The product was subsequently relaunched as Pacers around 1976, and later, three green peppermint stripes were added to the sweet,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> possibly to align it with a similar American product of the same name.<ref name="tuck">Berry, Steve & Norman, Phil. The Great British Tuck Shop, Friday Books, 2012. pp.230–31</ref> 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".<ref name="tuck" /> The brand was discontinued in 1985.

At one point the Glasgow Celtic football team were nicknamed "The Pacers" because of the similarity of their kit to the sweets.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>