# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/41 "2002-06-12T17:12:37Z")
True Story: My mother, a thrifty lady by all accounts, has been known to purchase M&Ms and Kisses after Christmas, segregate the colors, freeze them, and then redeploy the appropriate hue at Valentine’s and St. Patrick’s… ---
**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 12, 2002, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/42 "2002-06-12T20:33:14Z")
Will someone, anyone, please comment on the shinyness of their M&M’s? Am I the _ **only** _ one who sees this? ---
**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, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/43 "2002-06-12T22:53:38Z")
The latest bag does seem shinier than normal, but I figured that was because the hot weather was making them “sweat”. ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/44 "2002-06-12T23:40:49Z")
Hmm… well, let’s see… ( **MrVisible** rips open a nice new bag of M&M’s, and peers inside…) Hey, wow, they do seem shinier. Heck, I could almost say they glow. Man, that’s bright, I wonder how they do that… wow, that’s a little too bright… hey! Ow! Jeez, it’s like looking at that eclipse the other day! OWW! Get 'em away from me! OH MY GOD, MY EYES! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/45 "2002-06-13T04:53:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by turner \* > \*\*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. \*\* You know, **turner** , those sound like [Sixlets](http://www.oldtimecandy.com/sixlets.htm) to me. Are Sixlets and Canadian Smarties the same thing? Mmmmm…Sixlets. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/46 "2002-06-13T06:04:54Z")
SIXLETS!!! Long forgotten candies of childhood! Once I left a huge bag of Sixlets in a hot cat while on vacation. The chocolate melted, but the candy shell stayed solid. Damn, that was good. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/47 "2002-06-13T06:10:21Z")
That should say \* I left a huge bag of Sixlets in a hot **car** \*, not a hot cat. Please do not insert Sixlets into the cat. ---
**Author:** ![Nortia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Nortia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nortia)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/48 "2002-06-13T11:24:04Z")
I haven’t noticed my M&M’s being any shinier than usual. That could, of course, be because I don’t have the time to look at them before they enter my mouth. [On M&M’s and Smarties.](http://www-class.unl.edu/biochem/aspp_candy/candywar/observe.htm) ---
**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 13, 2002, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/49 "2002-06-13T14:41:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mudshark \* > \*\* Once I left a huge bag of Sixlets in a hot cat while on vacation. The chocolate melted, but the candy shell stayed solid. > Damn, that was good. \*\* Thank you thank you thank you for making my day!!! This has to be the funniest typo I have seen in a long time. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MachV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@MachV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MachV)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/50 "2002-06-13T15:06:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rhum Runner \* > \*\* > > Thank you thank you thank you for making my day!!! This has to be the funniest typo I have seen in a long time. 😃 \*\* I know! Me too! I SO just got busted by my boss, giggling at my desk. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744/51 "2002-06-13T15:17:01Z")
Damn you all!! Now I have to go to the store, 5 miles into town, just to get some M&Ms. I hate you :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-m-ms/112744.md?page=2)