# Do you care what color M&Ms you get? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 5, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-care-what-color-m-ms-you-get/523803 "2010-01-05T22:15:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-care-what-color-m-ms-you-get/523803/41 "2010-01-07T18:51:13Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Not in the slightest. It’s da chocolate dat matters! Seconded. I don’t even notice the colors, really. ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-care-what-color-m-ms-you-get/523803/42 "2010-01-07T19:07:22Z")
I swear that the red and blue ones taste the most like food colouring. I save the green ones for last as they are my favourite tasting the least artificial to me. Damn it! Now I have to have M&Ms! ---
**Author:** ![maisoui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@maisoui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maisoui)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-care-what-color-m-ms-you-get/523803/43 "2010-01-08T02:38:01Z")
> [@ToeJam](#): > > If i was really bored, I’d have M&M wars, where i’d try to crush two M&M’s together between my fingers, with the one that cracked first being eaten first and the survivor continued. 5 Wins and he won his freedom to be eaten last or to face another 5’er. > > Survival of the fittest! Or send him back to the company for breeding purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-care-what-color-m-ms-you-get/523803/44 "2010-01-08T03:12:53Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > As long as I don’t get any brown ones. If I do, well, I just start smashing shit. Eddie, is that you? > **[Did Van Halen's Concert Contract Require the Removal of Brown M&Ms?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/)** > > Did Van Halen's contract call for the removal of all brown M&Ms from bowls of candy placed backstage? ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-care-what-color-m-ms-you-get/523803/45 "2010-01-09T07:57:24Z")
The blue ones are a violation of natural law\*. They must be destroyed immediately. So I eat 'em first. - George Carlin once did a whole routine on why there is no blue food. (except for an occasional bad jello in the school cafeteria.) I ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-care-what-color-m-ms-you-get/523803/46 "2010-01-09T08:21:15Z")
> [@Valgard](#): > > I don’t care what colors I get but I notice that if I have a handful I tend to eat them so that I’ve got one of each color left at some point (as opposed to gobbling up all the browns, then the blues, etc). Aha, me too! Although I don’t pour more than a few into my hand at any given time anyway. Brown ones tend to go first. I am irrationally biased against the blue ones. Sorry, George, but I’m smart enough without any godsbedamned unnatural blue foods! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-care-what-color-m-ms-you-get/523803/47 "2010-01-09T16:23:49Z")
Nope. Eat them all without regard to race or creed. ---
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-care-what-color-m-ms-you-get/523803/48 "2010-01-09T16:24:20Z")
Yesterday I was shopping at Walmart and noticed that they are now selling small containers of M&M’s in individual colors. Containers are about the size of a butter tub - probably 4 or 5 ounces. Priced at 55 cents an ounce. Seemed kind of high to me so I looked at the standard 1 pound bag I usually buy. That worked out to about 21 cents an ounce. It’s a tough job, sorting them by colors I guess. But I’m up to the challenge. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-care-what-color-m-ms-you-get/523803.md?page=2)