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| Thread ID: 97305 | 2009-02-11 08:27:00 | M&Ms | radium (8645) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 746886 | 2009-02-11 08:27:00 | My Girlfriend brought a pack of M&Ms and we opened it, only to find that the packs are now individual colours Seems very strange eating M&Ms that are all one colour. Does anyone know the story behind this? |
radium (8645) | ||
| 746887 | 2009-02-11 09:06:00 | WAT pics or it didn't happen. |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 746888 | 2009-02-11 10:27:00 | Seems the candy company are having a promotion whereby they're selling M&Ms as separate colours in each pack, and if you find a mixed pack YOU WIN(!) something or other. global.mms.com http://www.colourbreakup.com.au/ Seems like a lot of work on their part to disadvantage most of their customers, who are expecting a full range of colours/flavours(?) (or am I being overly cynical). |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 746889 | 2009-02-11 10:44:00 | As an interesting aside, M&M's actually stand for Mars and Murrie (the 2 people who produced it) | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 746890 | 2009-02-11 18:05:00 | Does this mean Mars Bars aren't imports? | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 746891 | 2009-02-11 18:44:00 | Does this mean Mars Bars aren't imports? Of course they are! They come in on flying saucers from - where? - - - - - - - Say it aloud: MARS Don't eat the green ones. They are aphrodisiacs. It's nice that youse guys found the originators' names - now tell WHY they made them. (10 EXTRA points for NOT using WIKIPEDIA). |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 746892 | 2009-02-11 23:57:00 | In a way it puts me off buying them, I mean they just don't seem like M&Ms anymore | radium (8645) | ||
| 746893 | 2009-02-12 01:07:00 | Why did they make them? Because growing them is too difficult in most soil types. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 746894 | 2009-02-12 01:26:00 | They were commissioned by the US Army as a way for the soldiers to get chocolate in the field without it melting all over the place. M&M's were created in 1940 after Forrest Mars Sr. saw Spanish soldiers eating chocolate pellets coated in sugar during the Spanish Civil War, to prevent the soldiers from gaining sticky hands after eating chocolate. M&M's were first sold in the United States in 1941. By World War II, American soldiers were given the candy by the United States Army; soon after this it was marketed to the public. The candies were named for "Mars & Murrie" (Mars' business partner was Bruce Murrie, son of rival Milton S. Hershey's partner William Murrie.) M&M's soon became a hit because, in those times when air conditioning was not usually found in stores, homes, or the automobile, melting chocolate candy bars were a problem; but in M&M's, the candy's coating kept the chocolate from getting messy. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 746895 | 2009-02-12 02:04:00 | Ahem. | Metla (12) | ||
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