It’s going to be a challenge to write this review without letting Canadian pride and nostalgia take over. This is a chocolate bar that’s been in my life for as long as I can remember. I’m not sure when Laura Secord launched this bar, but I imagine it was long before I was born. Also, for those unfamiliar with Laura Secord the person, it’s worth a quick Google. That is unless you’re American, because during the revolutionary war she kind of screwed you guys over.

If I try to make this review unbiased, it’s not really a unique bar. Chocolate and mint have been together for a long time and this bar is not really doing anything that unique with the format. It’s simply milk chocolate with a slight minty flavour. The mint is subtle, so it doesn’t blow you away, but it’s strong enough that it cuts through the chocolate. Frankly if I’m to be honest, I have memories of it being a little stronger, and I wish it was.

I also wish they did something with the chocolate to make it appear to be a little more interesting. It has the nice Laura Secord portrait and logo, but a little green colour might have made it a little nicer. I’m not sure why green chocolate makes minty chocolate aesthetically pleasing to me, but it does. I’m also not sure why it’s called French mint, as I don’t think I’ve ever known the French for making particularly good minty chocolate.

Without the history, and in my case nostalgia, this is a fairly boring, medium quality mint chocolate bar. If you love mint chocolate, you’ll be okay with this bar. If you hate mint chocolate you’ll hate it. If you’re a Canadian kid born in the 70s with grandparents that had a sweet tooth you can’t live without this bar.