This is a day celebrating a chocolate mint confection that is branded, rather than a generic one. The full name is properly the York Peppermint Pattie, named after York, Pennsylvania and manufactured by the York Cone Company.
Although this particular candy is a trademarked variety, the general concept itself, which is simply covering a peppermint interior with chocolate, is common and pre-dates it. What makes the York Peppermint Pattie different is that prior versions all had a soft interior, and the York variety was instead hard. The patties could be snapped. This was, in fact, the final test for the patties after manufacture, whether they could be snapped or not. If they couldn't, that pattie (or rather the batch) was a second.
As with many mint and chocolate candies, the chocolate exterior of the original York Peppermint Pattie is made from bittersweet, aka dark, chocolate, rather than milk or white.
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