No doubt you�ve had sleepless nights wondering what the M&M in M&Ms stands for. Well, toss and turn no more, dear readers, because here is the answer:
In 1941, Forrest Mars Sr. (of the Mars candy company) teamed up with Bruce Murrie (the son of Hershey president William Murrie) to develop a hard-shelled candy with chocolate at the center. So...the two Ms are the first letters of two surnames. Woopty-do, right? Kind of anticlimactic, isn�t it?
Anyhow...
Forrest Mars Sr. got the idea for this candy in the 1930s, during the Spanish Civil War, when he saw soldiers eating chocolate pellets with a hard shell of tempered chocolate surrounding the inside, preventing the candies from melting.
When operations were started, the hard-coated chocolates were made in five colors: red, yellow, brown, green, and violet. They were served in a cardboard tube (similar to Smarties). During World War II, the candies were exclusively sold to the military and were part of a United States soldier�s rations.
By the way, the �M� printed on the M&Ms was originally printed in black. This was changed to white in 1954.
So, now that you have the answer, you can finally get some sleep...
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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