Peppermint Patty is a fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulzs comic strip Peanuts. Her full name is Patricia Reichardt, and she is one of a small group in the strip who live across town from Charlie Brown and his school friends. Peppermint Patty is known for being a natural athlete and the manager of her own baseball team. She is also depicted as a thinker and has been defying gender norms for 50 years. Peppermint Patty has chin-length hair that she describes as "mousy-blah", most often depicted as a medium brown. Schulz stated that he coined Peppermint Patty's name after noticing a dish of peppermint patties in his house and deciding the name was so good that he should use it before another artist thought of the same joke. Peppermint Patty debuted in the strip of August 22, 1966.
It is important to note that Peppermint Patty is also the name of a candy. Homemade peppermint patties are made with confectioners' sugar, peppermint extract, and condensed milk and dipped in chocolate to make marvelous mint treats.
