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{{Short description|Chocolate-covered mint candy}}
{{Infobox Brand
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|name=Haviland Thin Mints
|image=Haviland Thin Mints - cropped.jpg
|type= [[Confectionery]]
|currentowner= Log House Foods (since 2018)<ref name="loghouse">{{cite web| url= https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2018/12/05/a-splintered-necco-forges-a-future-around-the-world-just-not-in-revere | title= A Splintered NECCO Forges A Future Around The World, Just Not In Revere | date= December 5, 2018 | publisher=[[WGBH Educational Foundation|WGBH]] | accessdate=2018-12-10| quote= Haviland Thin Mints and Mighty Malt Milk Balls went to Log House Food in Minnesota.}}</ref>
|origin=United States
|discontinued=
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|previousowners=Miller and Hollis Corp.<br />1961–1970: Deran Confectionery<br />1970–1993 [[Borden (company)|Borden Inc.]]<br />1993–1994: Great American Brands<br />1994–2018: [[Necco]]
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'''Haviland Thin Mints''' are a [[chocolate]]-covered [[Mint (candy)|mint]] [[candy]] produced by Log House Foods of Plymouth, Minnesota.<ref name="loghouse"/> The candy is a mint [[Fondant icing|fondant]] covered in [[dark chocolate]], similar to the [[York Peppermint Pattie]] but smaller, thinner and shorter.

The brand dates its origins to at least [[World War II]], when it was one of the candies supplied to U.S. soldiers (made by Miller and Hollis).<ref>{{cite web | url= http://archive.ccm.edu/rosie/LWtranscript.htm | title= Transcript of an interview with Leonora Whildin | date= June 13, 2006 | work= [[Rosie the Riveter]] Project | publisher= [[County College of Morris]] | accessdate= 2009-07-12 | quote= Even my mother worked at that time, and she worked in what’s now Haviland Chocolates.  It was Miller and Hollis.  And they used to make some of the candy for servicemen. | archive-date= 2008-11-20 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081120003327/http://archive.ccm.edu/Rosie/LWtranscript.htm | url-status= dead }}</ref>  Haviland Thin Mints and related brands were acquired in 1961 by Deran which was in turn itself acquired in 1970 by [[Borden (company)|Borden]]<ref>[https://thecambridgeroom.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/the-sweet-history-of-cambridge-an-exhibition/ The Sweet History of Cambridge: An Exhibition]</ref> which manufactured them for over twenty years.<ref name="our"/> Under Deran and Borden the Mints were sold by youth to raise funds to attend [[YMCA]] summer camp.<ref>[https://m.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Pinback-YMCA-I-Am-Selling-Deran-s-Thin-Mints-Pin-Pinback/323660405350? YMCA I am selling Deran's Thin Mints pinback]</ref>

Haviland Thin Mints were briefly owned by [[Great American Brands]] (GAB), an investment group,<ref name="our">[http://www.necco.com/OurBrands/Default.asp?BrandID=10 Our Brands: Haviland] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704065358/http://www.necco.com/OurBrands/Default.asp?BrandID=10 |date=2009-07-04 }} at [[Necco]]</ref> who filed for bankruptcy in 1994, and in September of that year, the brand was acquired by [[Revere, Massachusetts]]-based [[Necco]].<ref name="our"/><ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=00-2386.01A | title= Antonietta Larocca v. Borden Inc. & Northern Trust | date= January 8, 2002 | accessdate= 2009-07-12 | quote= The plaintiffs ... worked in Borden's Deran Confectionary Division ... Borden sold this division to Great American Brands (GAB) on April 8, 1993.... On June 27, 1994, GAB declared bankruptcy under Chapter 11....The New England Confectionery Company (NECCO) purchased the relevant GAB assets on September 1, 1994... | url-status= dead | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070902143828/http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=00-2386.01A | archivedate= September 2, 2007 }}</ref>  In the wake of Necco's 2018 shuttering, Haviland Thin Mints along with Mighty Malt Milk Balls were sold to Minnesota-based Log House Food.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.candystore.com/blog/candy-news/necco-candies-coming-back/#loghouse|title=NECCO Candies Are Coming Back.|date=2019-03-20|website=CandyStore.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-13}}</ref>

Haviland Thin Mints also come in flavors such as Raspberry Crème and Orange Crème.<ref name="our"/>

==See also==
* [[List of chocolate bar brands]]
* [[List of confectionery brands]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.loghousefoods.com Log House Foods]

{{Necco brands}}

[[Category:Brand name confectionery]]
[[Category:Chocolate bars]]
[[Category:Necco brands]]
[[Category:Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2018]]
[[Category:Mint food]]

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