Oral Fixation makes its literary debut in the first chapter of Laura Vanderkam’s Grindhopping, published by McGraw Hill. In her book Laura documents the Oral Fixation success story and how the company and its young execs, Henry & Eric, are the prime example of how creating your own job description can lead to a rewarding career – sans the lifetime spent climbing up the corporate ladder. Laura vividly recounts her visit to the Chocolate Factory and even mentions our buddy Jack! To get your hands on a copy and read Laura’s take on the Chocolate Factory’s interesting décor, how Oral Fixation breaks the mold, and fab quotes from the Mint Guys…click here.

“Grindhopping is the hottest career alternative for anyone who wants to skip the long hours, low pay, and lackluster rewards of entry-level corporate jobs. Join the wave of young professionals who are starting their own companies, freelancing, consulting, job-hopping, and networking their way to success.” – back cover of Grindhopping by Laura Vanderkam.

We were happy to see our 6Packs featured on the fancy dancy trendspotting blog, Trainspoter. Thanks for the post, Justin!

A delightful article on everyone’s favorite mints in the Foodie publication, “The Nibble”.

Nibble Nibble.

Oral Fixation made an appearance in this week’s very sexy Nerve Scanner, just above the picture of a translucent pink vibrator shaped like a woman. What an honor!

Back in college, we had a friend with a single pick-up technique: flicking open a slim 1920s cigarette case and offering you a smoke. (Curiously, this seemed to work best on non-smokers.) Now that smoking is banned in New York bars, we hope he has discovered Oral Fixation mints, with their similarly sexy cases and their self-conscious resemblance to narcotics. In any case, several dozen tins were shipped to our office last week and our desk has smelled like “Seven Deadly Cinnamon” ever since.

Oral Fixation was featured in today’s LiquidTreat, a very cool weekly newsletter sent out to design afficionados around the country. Our mints made the cut as this week’s Magic Potion>

Move over Altoids—there’s a new cool mint in town. Three fresh-breathed friends in Hopewell, N.J. are introducing a delicious and decorative line of sugar-free mints including Mojito Mint (a lime mint cocktail flavor, engraved with a Cuban star), and Night Light (caffeinated Chai mint emblazed with the word ON), to name two. All six flavors come in collectible brushed metal tins and custom-designed wax paper. A super-treat sampler, The Oral Fixation 6-pack, is available for $15.

Thanks, LiquidTreat!

We were psyched to hear that our favorite blog, Chandrasutra), who calls Oral Fixation the Boing Boing post:

Oral Fixation mints are cleverly packaged mints with clever names (Sugar Free Tibet, Mojito Mint, etc). Never tried ‘em and who knows but they may taste like hell, but they sure make a pretty picture.

We rolled into the Chocolate Factory bright and early this morning and were astonished to see a CRAZY amount of people had just ordered mints—Florida, Missouri, Texas, Maryland, New York, London, and the orders just keep flying in from all over the country—and it’s not even 10AM!! Then we found out that Yahoo! chose our site as one of its featured links today, which is a great honor! Thanks Yahoo! people, and enjoy the mints! Woohoo!

There’s this new form of homespun journalism, sort of like a radio blog, where people basically speak into a microphone for a while and then post their ramblings onto the web. Then people download these “shows” onto their iPods, thus the name “Podcasts”. Nathan Santamaria had a good NPR piece about Podcasts. ANYWAY, this one dude, Frank Edward Nora, talked about our mints on his Podcast the other day (starting at minute 23). His show is called “The Overnightscape” and he seems to put out a 30 minute episode every day. Cool stuff, Frank. Thanks for the mention!

Just caught this TV spot on New York 1’s Weekly “Trend Report” (Oh Boy!) about Oral Fixation. Looks like Beyonce uses our mints in the epic battle against Halitosis. Glad we could help, Beyonce! Fight the good fight!

Check out the TV spot here.