# Those really good M&Ms! What happened?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 24, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938 "2000-04-24T01:45:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938/21 "2012-08-05T17:15:35Z")
Does anyone remember getting that rare M&M with a burnt peanut in it? I drew a cartoon about that, back in the day (back when this thread was a non-zom).
btw, It’s cool to be part of an over-a-decade-old-thread . . . (wow, 2000; I was a Board Noob, just lurking back then…)
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### Author:  [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938/22 "2012-08-05T17:39:56Z")
I still bemoan the loss of the tan ones. They tasted best.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938/23 "2012-08-06T13:59:42Z")
I remember being 10 years old and taking a long bus ride by myself with a bag of almond M&Ms. They were so good.
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### Author:  [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938/24 "2012-08-06T14:13:29Z")
The tan ones were the worst! I always ate them first to get them out of the way.
Do you know why there are no more tan ones? Because they were so unpopular! Everyone hated them! What’s the matter with you, anyway?
😛
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### Author:  [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938/25 "2012-08-06T14:22:58Z")
Just a stab in the dark, but could some of the M&Ms (the good one!) have been made in another country? I’m just thinking about how much better chocolate is outside the US.
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938/26 "2012-08-06T14:34:54Z")
> [@digs](#):
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> Does anyone remember getting that rare M&M with a burnt peanut in it?
I’ve never gotten a burnt peanut that I recall, but it seems I get around one M&M per every two bags or so without any peanut at all. Anyone else?
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938/27 "2012-08-08T00:52:42Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#):
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> I’ve never gotten a burnt peanut that I recall, but it seems I get around one M&M per every two bags or so without any peanut at all. Anyone else?
Is it still shaped like the peanut ones? Does it have a hole? I’ve had that. Just a regular M&M thrown in? Nope.
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938/28 "2012-08-08T00:58:39Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> Is it still shaped like the peanut ones? Does it have a hole? I’ve had that. Just a regular M&M thrown in? Nope.
They look like regular peanut M&Ms. No holes and definitely not a regular one.
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### Author:  [@Jennmonkye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennmonkye)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938/29 "2012-08-10T00:06:04Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#):
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> They look like regular peanut M&Ms. No holes and definitely not a regular one.
People have always thought I was strange because when they ask what my favorite M&M is, plain or peanut, I reply by saying that my favorite is actually the peanut M&M that doesn’t have a peanut in it.
You can empty a big bag of peanut M&Ms into a bowl, and the ones without peanuts are always the perfectly round ones. I make sure that when there’s a bowl of them at a party to sort of sneakily go thru the bowl with the spoon and pull out all the “good ones” that don’t actually have peanuts. I’m weird that way, what can I say?
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### Author:  [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938/30 "2012-08-10T01:48:59Z")
Does anyone remember the M&M-like candies in the 80s that tasted like mint chocolate? They were the same shape as regular M&Ms, but only came in brown and green, and had little crowns printed on them. Damn, those were good.
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### Author:  [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2012, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938/31 "2012-08-10T11:59:25Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#):
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> Does anyone remember the M&M-like candies in the 80s that tasted like mint chocolate? They were the same shape as regular M&Ms, but only came in brown and green, and had little crowns printed on them. Damn, those were good.
There are mint M&Ms and coconut M&Ms out now. Both are delicious.
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938/32 "2012-08-10T12:21:13Z")
> [@Jennmonkye](#):
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> You can empty a big bag of peanut M&Ms into a bowl, and the ones without peanuts are always the perfectly round ones.
I eat peanut M&Ms almost exclusively in the darkness of a movie theater, and never looked carefully to discover this. I will do so in the future.
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### Author:  [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938/33 "2012-08-10T17:02:03Z")
I, for one, do not approve of the color change they did about a decade ago. Now the orange is almost neon - waaaaaayyyyy too bright - and the ratio is all off.
Still tasty, though, especially if you’ve stashed them in the freezer. (My fond memory: We weren’t allowed snacks in class in high school but I’d usually sneak some M&Ms into history class and surreptitiously eat them, one by one, slowly, to make the time pass.)
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### Author:  [@Gretchion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gretchion)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938/34 "2012-08-10T22:05:14Z")
Here’s another vote for missing the tan M&M’s! Blue just never seemed the right color for an M&M.
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### Author:  [@rafmann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rafmann)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-really-good-m-ms-what-happened/10938/35 "2016-06-08T14:41:12Z")
It’s been almost 4 years - I thought it was time to resurrect this thread again 😃
I’m eating peanut M&Ms as I write this, which by the way is my favourite confectionery hands down! To all those talking about the burnt peanut, I occasionally get them in every new packet, I’d say about 1 in 10 peanut is burnt. They’re delicious and a nice surprise - because they’re rare they’re a nice treat but not sure they’d be as valuable if the whole packet was full of them
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