{"id":358,"date":"2007-04-26T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T01:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/the-latest-mentos-ambassador-shipment\/"},"modified":"2007-04-26T20:57:09","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T01:57:09","slug":"the-latest-mentos-ambassador-shipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/the-latest-mentos-ambassador-shipment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Mentos Ambassador Shipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/scottfidd\/473998256\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/216\/473998256_752461eccd_t.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"100\" width=\"44\" \/><\/a>Last week I discovered a big old box with Asian stamps on it in my mailbox. I pulled it out and thought to myself, &#8220;what on earth am I getting from Hong Kong?!?&#8221; Then I looked at the return address, &#8220;of course&#8230; (newly badged) Mentos Ambassador Stoll!&#8221; Ambassador Stoll had been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noboundaries.org\">working his way around the world<\/a> since last August. And I, just as I do whenever I hear someone is going out of the country, asked him if he&#8217;d keep his eyes open for new\/crazy Mentos flavors not available in the US. He certainly didn&#8217;t disappoint. Included in his package were some old standards: foreign labeled Mint, Strawberry, Apple, Fruit (or Rasa Bua!), Grape and Pink Grapefruit. There were also a few surprises with some flavors I haven&#8217;t seen before. There was Red Orange, which I have, but in a different wrapper. The other t<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/scottfidd\/473998772\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/227\/473998772_6a33099b29_t.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>wo new ones are Lemon Yoghurt and Ice Mint. The Lemon Yoghurt is totally new to me, but I&#8217;m guessing it is similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/new-mentos-flavor-strawberry-yogurt\/\">Strawberry Yoghurt<\/a> I got last summer, fruity flavored with a little bit of yoghurt tang. The Ice Mint I&#8217;m guessing is similar to the Mentos Strong I had several years ago. It is an Altoid-like strong mint flavor. Thanks for the shipment&#8230; your Mentos Ambassador Card is on the way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I discovered a big old box with Asian stamps on it in my mailbox. I pulled it out and thought to myself, &#8220;what on earth am I getting from Hong Kong?!?&#8221; Then I looked at the return address, &#8220;of course&#8230; (newly badged) Mentos Ambassador Stoll!&#8221; Ambassador Stoll had been working his way around&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/the-latest-mentos-ambassador-shipment\/\" title=\"Read The Latest Mentos Ambassador Shipment\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mentos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}