I loooooooooove real peppermint.  It’s probably not *real* real, like you might’ve got 100 years ago (if you were rich) but the peppermint-flavored bulk-candy canes.  Skittles and Jelly Belly are making fruit-flavored candy canes now.  It’s just… *wrong* somehow.  My husband and I made an agreemenet a long time ago, that we were llowed to simply have the occasional random rule, there doesn’t have to be a good reason behind it.  I think mine’s going to be “Only real peppermint” this year.