# Yeah, yeah, pink, purple or teal, who cares?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-pink-purple-or-teal-who-cares/98787>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 17, 2002, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-pink-purple-or-teal-who-cares/98787 "2002-03-17T22:53:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-pink-purple-or-teal-who-cares/98787/1 "2002-03-17T22:53:15Z")

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Open up a bag of M&M’s now and you’ll notice M&M/Mars is test marketing three new colors and asking the future dibatetics of America to vote among the three.

Pink, purple or teal?

Well, you know what? What the hell happened to tan M&Ms? Why not bring those back, instead of these sick, wimpy pastel colors? Teal, for cripes sake? What food is teal-colored?

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**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-pink-purple-or-teal-who-cares/98787/2 "2002-03-17T22:55:54Z")

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I feel the same way. I went to their web site, looked at the choices, and thought, where’s “none of the above?”

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**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-pink-purple-or-teal-who-cares/98787/3 "2002-03-17T22:59:53Z")

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I went to their site also, and voted. \<holding my breath till I win that New Beetle\> 🙂  
I think purple looks more like food, not that I care. I think all M&M’s should be brown and tan.

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**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-pink-purple-or-teal-who-cares/98787/4 "2002-03-17T23:46:29Z")

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[Homer Simpson]  
So I sez green M & M, red M & M, whazza difference? They all end up the same color in the end.  
[/Homer Simpson]

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**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-pink-purple-or-teal-who-cares/98787/5 "2002-03-18T03:29:12Z")

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No more tan? What is the word coming to?  
I remember back when it was Green, Brown, Tan, Yellow and Red.  
Ahhh…the good old days…

Great, now now I sound like I’m four times my age.