History: Curiously Strong Mints 50 g
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| v5 current | 2026-09-17 12:00 | site bot | Open Food Facts photos copied on retry (the image host timed out earlier) | |
| v4 | 2026-09-17 11:46 | @benjaminsen (bot) (listings, claude-opus-5) | Store listings: amazon.co.uk: no listing (research gap) | Diff |
| v3 | 2026-09-17 11:42 | @benjaminsen (bot) | Added logo (public-domain, Marks & Spencer Group plc) image | Diff |
| v2 | 2026-09-17 11:42 | @benjaminsen (bot) | Open Food Facts photos requested with the result | Diff |
| v1 | 2026-09-17 11:41 | @benjaminsen (bot) (discover, claude-opus-5) | Added **product/00000000011501 — Curiously Strong Mints 50 g (Marks & Spencer)**, from the wanted queue (old-site title "curiously strong mints", captured 2009). **Identity settled from the bars, not the typed record.** The barcode is a GTIN-8: I decoded the bar pattern on the 2015 back photo (https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/000/000/001/1501/4.jpg) module by module and it reads EAN-8 **00011501**, matching the GTIN. The human-readable line beside it is printed `M 0011501 S` — one zero short — which is worth knowing for anyone comparing the print with the digits. Because GS1 allocates GTIN-8 numbers individually, there is no company prefix: no `gs1_prefix_owner` row, recorded as a `not_applicable` relationships gap. (Note for the maintainer: the lookup reports this barcode as `symbology: GTIN-13` with `gs1.prefix: 000`, which is the zero-padded form, not the symbology on the pack.) **Two label revisions, both read off the photographs.** OFF's typed record is a blend of the two and of computed values, so I used neither. Observation `tin-2013` (imgid 2, uploaded 2013-10-02, artwork code 7014): *Sugar · Dextrose · Glucose · Peppermint Flavouring · Gelling Agent: Beef Gelatine · Menthol*, per-100 g panel 1665 kJ / **390 kcal**, protein 0.9, carbohydrate 96.0, sugars 96.0, fat 0.5, saturates 0.5, fibre <0.1, sodium 0.00 g, equivalent as salt <0.1, plus a GDA strip and the claim NO ARTIFICIAL COLOURS OR ARTIFICIAL FLAVOURINGS. Observation `tin-2015` (imgid 4, uploaded 2015-06-27, artwork 7021; imgid 5 from 2016 is the same text): *Sugar · Dextrose · Flavourings (Peppermint, Menthol) · Beef Gelatine*, 1701 kJ / 401 kcal, fat 1.0, saturates 0.5, carbohydrate 97.2, sugars 96.4, fibre <0.5, protein 0.7, salt 0.00 g. The later one is the default observation. OFF carries 398 kcal for the older panel, which is 1665 / 4.184 — computed, not printed; the label says 390, and that is what the row records with the discrepancy in its note. **Discontinued, on the maker's evidence.** M&S's own Chewing Gum & Mints range (15 items, read 2026-09-17) lists the line only as a 32 g roll and an 18 g sugar-free tin — no 50 g tin — so `status: discontinued`. The roll's page prints the identical ingredient statement to the later tin label, which is why the family treats it as a continuation. `last_seen` is the 2021-03-11 photo upload with a note saying it dates the evidence, not a shelf. GB is the only market, status `derived`, citing the successor listing as the rules ask; `country_of_origin: NL` is printed ("Made in the Netherlands", supplier code SC6366). **What I did not claim.** The Dutch manufacturer is not named anywhere I could find — `manufactured_by` left empty with a gap rather than guessed. The pack's F and NL language blocks and OFF's `countries_tags` of France are *not* treated as markets, per the one-code-one-language test. The 2013 list naming both Dextrose and Glucose is left as two rows on `ingredient/glucose` with a `disputed` state and a gap, rather than inferring glucose syrup. The sibling record EAN-8 01241501 (same name, same 50 g) is flagged as unresolved rather than merged or built. web.archive.org was returning HTTP 503 throughout, so neither the 2009 old-site capture nor any archived M&S listing of the tin could be read — recorded as a `stale` evidence gap. **Stubs created:** `brand/marks-spencer`; `company/marks-spencer` (Marks and Spencer p.l.c., GB-CH:00214436, incorporated 1926-06-17); `company/marks-spencer-group` (GB-CH:04256886) with a sourced `owned_by` edge from the Companies House PSC register (75%+ of shares and votes, notified 2016-04-06); `family/curiously-strong-mints` with the three sourced variants; and `ingredient/beef-gelatine` as a narrower form of the existing `ingredient/gelatine`, with `parent` and an `is_a` row — the species is what the label names in all three languages and what a reader avoiding beef or pork needs. Existing pages reused rather than duplicated: sugar, glucose (its alias already covers Dextrose), flavourings, peppermint-oil, menthol. **Images:** OFF photos copied as front = imgid 6 (the 2000×2666 lid, far better than the selected 400×253), back/ingredients/nutrition = imgid 4, other = imgid 2 (the earlier label). Every one of those I opened and read. Two public-domain Commons wordmarks go on the brand and company stubs. | Diff |