Spearmint chews penny sweets

It has been ages since I had a spearmint chew, those sweets you get a the newsagents sold as penny sweets.

I found them tasting like sweet toothpaste or perhaps my tastebuds have changed.

To be fair, these chews are a different brand to the regular spearmint chews.

Also they are sugar free when I googled them which might have affected the taste.