But, today, I wanted to bring to you a blog share. Just because I liked this post and we were discussing it at work today. We talk about food a lot at work. It's nice.
But here it is.... some m&m info...
The discussion broke out concerning the tan m&m. Do you all remember that baby? I remember it being more of a light brown but according to Kim at work it was a disgusting diarrhea color. Her words, not mine. Here's what the old m&ms used to look like.
It looks like they took the browns and mixed them to come up with the current selection including Mr. Blue. I voted for purple so don't blame me for that one.
Personally, I think the color is off on this lot. They are usually a little brighter orange and a little darker blue. But anyway, back to the great color change of 95. All I remember is that you had to call in (how old school is that?) and vote for either blue, purple, or pink. I was always rooting for purple but alas, blue was the winner and we are stuck with it. It's still my lease favorite color.
But, listen to this, apparently there was originally a purple m&m in the set. I found this chart on wikipedia (before I found the blog post) and was amazed.
Why would they get rid of purple?!?! That's a drastic mistake! And the red hiatus? Apparently there was a red dye that was toxic or something and the red one was stopped even though it did not contain the dye. Instead, they made orange and the heavens rejoiced. Orange is the best one after all. But, red was brought back later and everyone was happy again. Still, they should never have gotten rid of purple.
And if you want to learn a lot more about m&ms, like the fact that they were thought up during the Spanish Civil War because Forest Mars Sr. saw soldiers eating chocolate pellets with a hard outer shell to prevent them from melting, and that the candy is named after the Mars Company founder, Forest Mars Sr., and William F. R. Murrie (President of Hershey's Chocolate), check out the wikipedia page. Because is always contains the most reliable information. :)
