Peppy (from peppermint)[1] is the polar bear mascot and icon of Fox's Glacier Mints, a brand of boiled mint manufactured by Fox's Confectionery in the United Kingdom.
[2] At around the same time, Fox's commissioned a taxidermist to shoot and stuff a real polar bear, which was put out on display at such public events as football matches and carnivals to advertise the Glacier Mints.
[3][4][5] The exhibition was taken all over the country, and eventually incorporated as many as four other stuffed polar bears.
[3][5] In the 1960s, after the advent of televised advertising and after Rowntrees acquired the company, the exhibition was deemed politically incorrect and was removed from public circulation.
In 2003, the original Peppy – measuring 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) high and 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long,[5] and with an indeterminate gender[6] – was donated to the Leicester Museum & Art Gallery in Leicester, the city in which Fox's Confectionery is based.