Peppermint is....
 

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big UK/US difference here, I think. Am sort of getting used to it, but still hard to understand that when Hebe says her "peppermint" sweater, she means the red, pink and white striped one....) ...to me it's white ..or green as a second option -an "away" strip if you will.....

so white and red is a quick-and-away winner..but despite living here 9 years, that's just not peppermint colors to me. white. and green if there has to be a second

Well, technically it is GREEN, because it is a plant after all! But I voted white.

I voted green, because it's a plant. If I'd known you were talking about clothing color, I probably would have voted pink.

Same here. Actually, I was thinking about the candy. It's usually white with pink stripes. But sometimes I think it's white with green stripes. But when used to decribe color for clothes, it would be pink and white stripes.

Candy Canes? White and red.

It's a flavour. Do you have synaesthesia?

Green and white is spearmint.

Or wintergreen. Or is that blue? And sparky?

That reminds me. When I was a little girl, I had a book called "Peppermint" and it was about a white kitten.

Oh my GOD I found it online! I think I actually still have this book in a box somewhere.

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/image....L._AA148_.jpg

Yes, blue.

Peppermint=candy canes=white and red.

Don't complicate a simple thing people!!

Peppermint as a flavour is white of course.
If someone I knew had a cat called Peppermint I would completely expect it to be white.

But I would not expect peppermint to be used as a description for clothing, I admit. Unlike Duck egg, a food stuff which I consider to be completely acceptable as a colour.

What else... Hmmm.
Butter/ buttermilk
Honey
Corn (usually hair)
Chocolate
Coffee
Mustard

Funny - all of the above vary in colour, but if I read that someone was wearing a chocolate coloured suit I would NOT expect it to be white!

It's not just candy canes tho, round mints are red and white too. But not in the UK. You just wouldn't expect a red and white candy to be peppermint. You just wouldn't. Spearmint is a sort of nasty lime green. I love peppermint, I HATE spearmint.