# What's Up with M&M's?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744 "2002-06-06T22:03:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tsarina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/21 "2002-06-11T00:46:44Z")
You know the whole competition is rigged, right? Just like the last one… they were gonna pick blue all along, bastards! - tsarina, who won’t go onstage unless she has a bowl of green ones… even if she has to beat people to death with their own shoes.\* (\*bonus points for whoever catches that reference.) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/22 "2002-06-11T01:06:27Z")
_Wayne’s World_. I kinda like the blue crunchy ones, myself, though the peanut-butter version remains the best. The colour doesn’t seem important. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/23 "2002-06-11T01:12:05Z")
The Smartie thing still confuses me. In the US they are little fruit flavored tart things that crumble to a powder when eaten. In Canada I gather they are akin to M&Ms? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/24 "2002-06-11T01:54:18Z")
White M&Ms are an abomination against nature. I picked up several bags of the red, white and blue M&Ms because they were on sale, and the white ones are just _wrong_. Anyone know what color won, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Rhum\_Runner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rhum\_Runner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhum_Runner)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/25 "2002-06-11T01:58:36Z")
Am I the only one who is concerned about the shells?? The shells!! I know we all mourn the tan M&M’s, but must our beloved chocolate candies now be shellacked as well? I swear the M&M’s are shinier than usual! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/26 "2002-06-11T02:31:06Z")
Anyone who’s had the caramel ones, where do you live? We have them here in Austin, TX, but the packages are all in Spanish. Oh, and they taste like shit, too. ---
**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/27 "2002-06-11T04:01:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > \*\*White M&Ms are an abomination against nature. > > I picked up several bags of the red, white and blue M&Ms because they were on sale, and the white ones are just _wrong_. \*\* The white M&Ms are 100% natural. I know, because last winter I moonlighted at the M&M factory. I was hired (along with a couple hundred other people) to suck the color off the yellow, orange and green M&Ms until they turned white. (You can’t do that with the brown ones, by the time you suck all the brown off 'em, the remaining shell is so thin that it becomes translucent.) Some people seem to think there’s something wrong with that, but I can’t see why. We were all screened for herpes, so it’s perfectly safe. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/28 "2002-06-11T04:21:50Z")
**heresiarch** , that reminds me of that old joke about the kid visiting his grandma in the hospital, and eating her bowl of nuts while she’s sleeping, then her waking up to tell him how she likes to suck the chocolate off them, but can’t eat the nuts anymore. Hee. ---
**Author:** ![turner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@turner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turner)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/29 "2002-06-12T00:35:56Z")
Smarties–yum not the sweetart like bain of all Halloween bags, but the chocolate kind. Again, I only saw them on Halloween. They were like M & Ms but smaller and spherical rather than pill shaped. They were packed in a little cellophane tube that contained about 10 of them and the shell was slightly harder than that of M & Ms. The chocolate was FAR superior to that of M & Ms, and it was really cool to let them get hot–like leaving them in the car, cutting off one end of the celophane and squishing them up into your mouth like astronaut food. Again…YUM. Wish I could find some. ---
**Author:** ![Vaioman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecccb3/32.png) [@Vaioman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vaioman)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/30 "2002-06-12T00:54:08Z")
You know, you can order your own colors at the site… [www.m-ms.com](http://www.m-ms.com) ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/31 "2002-06-12T01:13:35Z")
[homer simpson] Mmmmmmmm chocolate [/homer simpson] ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/32 "2002-06-12T01:21:53Z")
> [@](#): > > You know, you can order your own colors at the site… > [www.m-ms.com](http://www.m-ms.com) I did not know that, and I’m glad I do now. I think I’m gonna order Red, Orange, Yellow, Green and Brown (weeping all the while for Tan) and make my own earthtone 70’s mix. The mix they should have preserved forever, including the Tan of course. Damn kids. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/33 "2002-06-12T01:23:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > \*\*White M&Ms are an abomination against nature. > > I picked up several bags of the red, white and blue M&Ms because they were on sale, and the white ones are just _wrong_. > > Anyone know what color won, anyway? \*\* I was just reading in the local paper over the weekend that Wyclef Jean and pop singer Ashanti will announce the newest color on June 19th. So I guess we’ll know then. F\_X ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/34 "2002-06-12T01:31:46Z")
I want a big bag of nothing but black M&Ms! [sub]And I don’t even really like chocolate that much…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/35 "2002-06-12T03:01:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rhum Runner \* > \*\*Am I the only one who is concerned about the shells?? The shells!! I know we all mourn the tan M&M’s, but must our beloved chocolate candies now be shellacked as well? I swear the M&M’s are shinier than usual! \*\* Out of all the terrifying things that are in M&M’s, you are worried about the possibility of additional extraneous shellac? Maybe it’s just time for new glasses. Although who knows, it’s been months since I bought a pack, so I’ve been woefully out of the loop. The day they cut out the green ones, though, will be the day my childhood dies. Or at least my high school years of teasing friends over the significance of eating the green ones. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/36 "2002-06-12T04:09:21Z")
_Black_ M&M’s? That seems so…wrong. More wrong than white ones…at least to me. In the world of candy, black is reserved strictly for licorice flavored items, NO EXCEPTIONS! That is how the candy world warns of of the evil licorice. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/37 "2002-06-12T06:38:10Z")
Okay. A big bag of black, white, and grey M&Ms. That would be so cool I wouldn’t even want to eat them. Monotone candy. Mmm. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/38 "2002-06-12T13:56:50Z")
Halloween M&Ms are orange and black, and Valentine’s Day bags have red, pink and white. You could just pick up some of each near the appropriate holiday and pick out the monochrome ones - that is, if you don’t mind little hearts and ghosts instead of "m"s. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/39 "2002-06-12T14:02:30Z")
Halloween M&Ms are orange and black, and Valentine’s Day bags have red, pink and white. You could just pick up some of each near the appropriate holiday and pick out the monochrome ones - that is, if you don’t mind little hearts and ghosts instead of "m"s. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MachV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@MachV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MachV)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/40 "2002-06-12T14:39:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jinwicked \* > \*\*Monotone candy. Mmm. \*\* How about monoCHROME M&M’s? Black, amber, and green. Mmmm… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744.md?page=3)