# M&Ms and the illuminati

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-ms-and-the-illuminati/547693>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [July 23, 2010, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-ms-and-the-illuminati/547693 "2010-07-23T10:11:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![garic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@garic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garic)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-ms-and-the-illuminati/547693/1 "2010-07-23T10:11:47Z")

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> M&M is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Mars (hmm …) Candy Corporation, manufacturers of such venerable teeth rotters as Milky Ways, Three Musketeers, and … Snickers. Shoot. For a second there I thought I had evidence of another Illuminati plot.

But in the UK and Ireland, Snickers used to be called … Marathon.

We’re all doomed.

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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-ms-and-the-illuminati/547693/2 "2010-07-23T10:36:36Z")

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Here’s a [link](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/320/how-did-they-figure-out-the-m-m-color-mix)to the column in question.

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**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-ms-and-the-illuminati/547693/3 "2010-07-23T16:39:57Z")

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> (…) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which also happens to be the home of the 3M company (why does this seem significant?).

3M, of course, stands for Minnesota Mining & Minerals. Hmmm.

H.

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**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-ms-and-the-illuminati/547693/4 "2010-07-23T16:55:07Z")

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Quite a few Mars products have different names in Britain; to make it more confusing, Mars often uses the same name in the US for a different product.

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**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-ms-and-the-illuminati/547693/5 "2010-07-23T18:04:30Z")

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> [@Heracles](#):
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> 3M, of course, stands for Minnesota Mining & Minerals.

Actually it’s Minnesota Mining & **Manufacturing**. They were a client of ours in one of my old jobs.

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**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-ms-and-the-illuminati/547693/6 "2010-07-25T03:43:42Z")

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> [@Skammer](#):
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> Actually it’s Minnesota Mining & **Manufacturing**. They were a client of ours in one of my old jobs.

My mistake. Mortification muffles me.

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**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-ms-and-the-illuminati/547693/7 "2010-07-25T03:47:47Z")

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> [@Heracles](#):
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> > [@Skammer](#):
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> > Actually it’s Minnesota Mining & **Manufacturing**. They were a client of ours in one of my old jobs.
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> My mistake. Mortification muffles me.

I saw what you did there.

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**Author:** ![qpw3141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/6bbea6/32.png) [@qpw3141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qpw3141)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-ms-and-the-illuminati/547693/8 "2010-07-31T10:20:17Z")

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> [@Rick](#):
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> > [@Heracles](#):
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> > > Actually it’s Minnesota Mining & **Manufacturing**. They were a client of ours in one of my old jobs.
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> > My mistake. Mortification muffles me.
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> I saw what you did there.

Although aggravating, alarming and angering academics, actively applying alliteration (attentively avoiding awful aberrations) actually accentuates already accurate and apposite aphorisms adding appealing aural attributes as aesthetically attractive augmentation, also accruing admiring audience appreciation at any appropriate announcement .