# I mourn the loss of... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 28, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mourn-the-loss-of/125959 "2002-08-28T17:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mourn-the-loss-of/125959/1 "2002-08-28T17:39:00Z")
… the light brown M&Ms. They were the only ones that truly tasted good. They make the lavender dye for the lavender ones out of dog poop so I hear. I think the blue ones are made out of tampon water™. Tampon water is obviously that blue water they use to show how absorbant tampons are on television commercials. As it is now, I just opened a bag of M&Ms and since I am so incredibly anal about this type of thing, I sorted them all out by color. I only eat one color at a time so not to cross contaminate my tastebuds you see. Not only did the fiends get rid of the light brown ones, I noticed they are trying to get rid of the regular brown ones too! There was only one regular brown M&M in the whole bag. Stupid Mars candy company. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mourn-the-loss-of/125959/2 "2002-08-28T17:45:39Z")
According to M&M’s website, brown M&M’s make up 30% of the candies produced, and each other color makes up 14%. I know this because someone in my multivariate stats class decided to compare M&M frequencies in regular and peanut M&M’s. I don’t remember his exact results, but everyone was convinced that the distribution on the website is false.