Really. Literally. Spelled out, forty-eight and a half pounds of M&Ms. Sitting in two big boxes in my living room.
48.5 lbs.
I run a D&D game. Every week, the players will bring some junk food over, a “DM tribute” of sorts. I usually supply the bulk of the munchies and sodas, but the players do their part. Until today.
I just got a new player last week. He’s good, has a lot of potential. He’s asked about including his brother, and I’d responded vaguely, as I wasn’t sure if we really had a lot of room for another player. But this week, they showed up with the ultimate DM tribute.
Forty-eight and a half pounds of M&Ms.
And eight 12-packs of Mountain Dew.
I let him play. And, as it turns out, he’s good. It’s going to be a great group.
So, Dopers, what would you do with forty-eight and a half pounds of M&Ms?
simple at the wholesale stores you can buy them between 5 and 20 pound bags
there that big for baking and the handfull for a quarter machienes
you can also go to like smart and final and buy a box of the indivisual packages for about 15
so its not inconceviable that one can buy 40 pounds …
although betwen that and the dew you cna have one cafiene and sugar rush
I don’t know if you still can, but once upon a time (about 2.5 yrs ago) I went to the offical M&M site, and had them send me their free recipe book. There are some pretty cool recipes in it. But, until then you can make M&M bar cookies to your heart’s contentment, just follow any chocolate chip cookie recipe, subsitute M&Ms for chocolate chips, and put in an 8x8 or 9x9 pan to cook.
How much is there, volume wise? I would put them in a bathtub, climb in wearing a bathing suit but scatter the m’s so it looks like you could be naked, have someone take a picture, and use the picture as your Christmas card this year. Hell, it beats the usual angels and bells and crap I normally get from people.
Ooooh! I know what you can do with all those M&M’s! Send them to pricciar! He hates it when the colors get mixed. He could spend the next 10 years separating the colors into their own little piles!
My mother could take them off of your hands-she’s an M&Ms fiend! Ever since I can remember, we’ve always had a can of them in the living room, right by her chair…
So far, suggestions range from cookies (hmm…) to bathtubs (Hmmmmm…) to propositions (erm… um… blush.). And yeah, supposedly they’re for the gamers… but we’re gonna be sick of them long before they run out.
To give you an idea of the sheer scope of this conundrum, I had to clear out the entire bottom shelf of my fridge for these crates of chocolaty goodness. The boxes barely fit.
I don’t have room in my fridge for them forever. I live in Tuccson, so storing them anywhere else is likely to result in two big slabs of ex-M&Ms. I can’t ship them (sorry, folks…) for much the same reasons; by the time they got out of state, there would be some interesting brown stains spreading in the shipping cartons. I don’t care what you say about not melting in your hand; in Arizona, anything is subject to melting, as numerous members of my Deceased Cassette Club are willing to attest to.
So, my first step in M&M redistribution will be to bring one of the 25-lb boxes in to work. Fortunatly, I work at a hospital, and chocolate is one of the cherished substances hereabout. I’m gonna do a “Fill up your own container with M&M’s” tour around the various offices, and see what’s left after that.
Anyone know how much an individual M weighs? I’m trying to figure out how many I have left…
