When chocolate was a treat: Vintage ads recall heyday of wafer-thin mint as After Eight celebrates 50th birthday. By HAYLEY DIXON . Published: 05:44 EDT, 21 December 2012 | Updated: 10:01 EDT, 21 ...

The runner up is After Eight. Quite possibly the most sophisticated mint on the market, these extra-thin treats come in an elegant box with a whole lot of packaging that Phantom had to fight ...

But now the hands of three large clocks, situated on Nestlé’s factory perimeter in Haxby Road and Wigginton Road, York, have all been turned to just after eight O’ clock – to mark the 50th ...

Brian Sollitt, who has died aged 74, invented the After Eight mint, the wafer-thin chocolate square in a paper sleeve that changed the way the aspirational middle-class rounded off dinner parties.

The man who invented the After Eight chocolate dinner mint has died at the age of 74. ... With a warning to keep the project top secret, bosses asked him to create the wafer-thin mint, ...

You get a very tasty after dinner mint for your money, too. These contain 65 per cent cocoa solids, so it’s a quality dark chocolate outer, and the fondant had a good texture.

One of the joys about this time of year is Girl Scout Cookies.Besides being delicious just the way they are, we’ve come up with recipes that use them as ingredients.

The After Eight box includes 12 bags of individually wrapped mint chocolate figures. It’s worth noting they do contain milk which makes them unsuitable for vegans.

“After Eight wafer-thin mints have the same effect on me as camellias and candlelight; they make me feel expensive, pampered and gay,” wittered one precious pet, biting another sinful square.