I first tasted these in New j Jersey almost 50 years ago. I've been buying them whenever I could find them ever since. It's wonderful to have a reliable source. What's so special is hard to say. The chocolate is very good quality and the shell is a moderately strong mint. Since it's become fairly difficult to find a good chocolate lentil. I used to wait every year for Christmas because Hershey would make something similar to M&Ms but with much better chocolate. Hershey trashed their chocolate recipe five or ten years ago. The first Hersheyette I tasted seemed won't (amazing in such a small chocolate) and when I checked the ingredients there was something called PGPR. I understand that it's an ingredient that lowers the cost of production but it ruins the chocolate. Mint lentil is became my only candy coated chocolate option an be here I am, subscribing to them!