Mostly just northern except I have seen them in a few different small shops down south. I don’t like them personally. Tastes like a wish.com after eight
Millets, Blacks and Go Outdoors stores sell them
I mean you simply can’t go hiking without some Kendal Mint Cake. It’s Northern Law.
Lived in the south west and south east, my dad used to get this for hikes, loved it as a kid
National? It went international when Ernest Shackleton took it to Antarctica, and when Hillary and Tensing Norgay climbed Everest. It’s the original energy bar.
It’s one of the reasons I have a love for wilderness and mountains. My dad was from Kendal and we’d break out the mint cake to celebrate us reaching a fell summit. I got a bigger buzz from that than clambering up scree to climb Scafell Pike or Helvellyn.
This goes really well with brandy. Especially on a mountain top.
As bought in bristol in the 80s.
The rawdog version is nicer without the crappy chocolate
You can also get Kendal mint cake liqueur if you fancy a snifter.
I’ve heard of it, but I thought it was just for people who climb mountains. The only place I’ve ever seen it for sale is Mountain Warehouse
I’m as southern as they come and I love it.
Definitely nationwide
I used to eat chocolate covered kendal mint cake 30 odd years ago. Was in a shop with the chocolate bars near where I went with my folks on the weekends. Later I realised that it’s just mint flavoured sugar covered in chocolate. Surprised I don’t now have Type 2 Diabetes.
The chocolate coated brown sugar varient is amazing
Used Kendal Mint Cake 30 years when I was volunteer in Search and Rescue unit. Both for myself and in case was treating someone with low blood sugar.
Horrible stuff don’t recommend- sorry
Definitely not a northern thing, I’m from London and I absolutely love Kendal mint cake. Edmund Hillary had them as energy bars to climb Mount Everest..
They’re ok. Needs a bit of sugar.
I feel like my teeth are dissolving when I eat mint cake. It’s nice though.
No need to sell it down south – they haven’t got any mountains! Also it’s deadly intense and you’re only supposed to eat small portions of it. It’s a survival aid not a confectionery bar.
Kendal Mint Cake (non-chocolate version) dissolved into a thermos of hot water makes a cracking mountain drink
I worked in Uganda very briefly and gave my driver a bit of one… it was the most sugar he’d ever had in his life.. his face was an absolute picture.
Totally forgot about this stuff
I grew up in snowdonia, it was definitely a thing there. So many calories but so damn good. That crystallised melt-in-the-mouth texture.
I’ve had it once as someone born in Hampshire.
Really liked it and I would have it again if I could find it
I must be tired, I couldn’t imagine why mitt Romney would’ve ever been in Kendal, nevermind ripped off the fucking mint cake recipe
Yeah mate it’s all over. Got it in Scotland as a kid and now in the Deep South as an adult.
We used to get it after swimming. Sans chocolate.
I had no idea there was a chocolate covered one. I’ve been buying the mint cake, seriously good.
It’s the closest thing we have to Elven bread, which may have been inspired by it.
First encountered it in the gift shop of a historic house in the south east.
Late 1980s, two large coaches of 10 year olds on a school trip. We each ate a full bar of this and the coach drivers refused to drive us back until we had all run around in a field screaming first. When the sugar crash arrived we all piled back in the coach to come home.
See Kendall mint cake to me was a gloriously sweet and grainy bar of toothpaste, chocolate covered Kendall mint cake was the most glorious thing ever, now, I’d probably eat it and an arm would fall off.
Used to upsell them when I worked at Blacks 20 odd years ago. Easy way to make sure your average items per sale was bumped up, especially because you could add them in as a little freebie on big sales. Ridiculous that selling a £200 pair of boots was mediocre but a £200 pair of boots and 3 extra Kendal mint cakes could keep you in the running for a bonus
It’s even better without the chocolate!
Haven’t had it in a looong time… it’s one of those things that I’ll only buy if I’m actually IN Kendal, kinda like Cornish pasties from Cornwall.
You can’t walk for tripping over this stuff in the Lake District.
It’s been national since 1900 or something
We’re lacking here in Surrey. Please send aid.
Mad mental Kendal cake
Never seen it chocolate covered, but the original plain mint cake is delicious.
Its disgusting
I request a photo of the cake plz.
I used to eat this all the time and I’ve never even seen a real mountain.
Bloody northerners. First thinking they invented being hard as nails and now flavoured sugar!
I’m in my 50s and growing up in Yorkshire you used to be able to buy it anywhere but it’s definitely harder to find now. It’s so good. It got my reluctant walkers ( 9 and 6 at the time) to finish a 7 mile walk.
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Never seen this in my life
That’s just a big After 8 isn’t it?
Mostly just northern except I have seen them in a few different small shops down south. I don’t like them personally. Tastes like a wish.com after eight
Millets, Blacks and Go Outdoors stores sell them
I mean you simply can’t go hiking without some Kendal Mint Cake. It’s Northern Law.
I can also recommend [Grasmere gingerbread](https://www.grasmeregingerbread.co.uk/). Lovely stuff.
Lived in the south west and south east, my dad used to get this for hikes, loved it as a kid
National? It went international when Ernest Shackleton took it to Antarctica, and when Hillary and Tensing Norgay climbed Everest. It’s the original energy bar.
It’s one of the reasons I have a love for wilderness and mountains. My dad was from Kendal and we’d break out the mint cake to celebrate us reaching a fell summit. I got a bigger buzz from that than clambering up scree to climb Scafell Pike or Helvellyn.
This goes really well with brandy. Especially on a mountain top.
As bought in bristol in the 80s.
The rawdog version is nicer without the crappy chocolate
You can also get Kendal mint cake liqueur if you fancy a snifter.
I’ve heard of it, but I thought it was just for people who climb mountains. The only place I’ve ever seen it for sale is Mountain Warehouse
I’m as southern as they come and I love it.
Definitely nationwide
I used to eat chocolate covered kendal mint cake 30 odd years ago. Was in a shop with the chocolate bars near where I went with my folks on the weekends. Later I realised that it’s just mint flavoured sugar covered in chocolate. Surprised I don’t now have Type 2 Diabetes.
The chocolate coated brown sugar varient is amazing
Used Kendal Mint Cake 30 years when I was volunteer in Search and Rescue unit. Both for myself and in case was treating someone with low blood sugar.
Horrible stuff don’t recommend- sorry
Definitely not a northern thing, I’m from London and I absolutely love Kendal mint cake.
Edmund Hillary had them as energy bars to climb Mount Everest..
They’re ok. Needs a bit of sugar.
I feel like my teeth are dissolving when I eat mint cake. It’s nice though.
No need to sell it down south – they haven’t got any mountains! Also it’s deadly intense and you’re only supposed to eat small portions of it. It’s a survival aid not a confectionery bar.
Kendal Mint Cake (non-chocolate version) dissolved into a thermos of hot water makes a cracking mountain drink
I worked in Uganda very briefly and gave my driver a bit of one… it was the most sugar he’d ever had in his life.. his face was an absolute picture.
Totally forgot about this stuff
I grew up in snowdonia, it was definitely a thing there. So many calories but so damn good. That crystallised melt-in-the-mouth texture.
I’ve had it once as someone born in Hampshire.
Really liked it and I would have it again if I could find it
I must be tired, I couldn’t imagine why mitt Romney would’ve ever been in Kendal, nevermind ripped off the fucking mint cake recipe
Yeah mate it’s all over. Got it in Scotland as a kid and now in the Deep South as an adult.
We used to get it after swimming. Sans chocolate.
I had no idea there was a chocolate covered one. I’ve been buying the mint cake, seriously good.
It’s the closest thing we have to Elven bread, which may have been inspired by it.
First encountered it in the gift shop of a historic house in the south east.
Late 1980s, two large coaches of 10 year olds on a school trip. We each ate a full bar of this and the coach drivers refused to drive us back until we had all run around in a field screaming first. When the sugar crash arrived we all piled back in the coach to come home.
See Kendall mint cake to me was a gloriously sweet and grainy bar of toothpaste, chocolate covered Kendall mint cake was the most glorious thing ever, now, I’d probably eat it and an arm would fall off.
Used to upsell them when I worked at Blacks 20 odd years ago. Easy way to make sure your average items per sale was bumped up, especially because you could add them in as a little freebie on big sales. Ridiculous that selling a £200 pair of boots was mediocre but a £200 pair of boots and 3 extra Kendal mint cakes could keep you in the running for a bonus
It’s even better without the chocolate!
Haven’t had it in a looong time… it’s one of those things that I’ll only buy if I’m actually IN Kendal, kinda like Cornish pasties from Cornwall.
You can’t walk for tripping over this stuff in the Lake District.
It’s been national since 1900 or something
We’re lacking here in Surrey. Please send aid.
Mad mental Kendal cake
Never seen it chocolate covered, but the original plain mint cake is delicious.
Its disgusting
I request a photo of the cake plz.
I used to eat this all the time and I’ve never even seen a real mountain.
Bloody northerners. First thinking they invented being hard as nails and now flavoured sugar!
I’m in my 50s and growing up in Yorkshire you used to be able to buy it anywhere but it’s definitely harder to find now. It’s so good. It got my reluctant walkers ( 9 and 6 at the time) to finish a 7 mile walk.