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Can you name the traditional M&M milk chocolate shell colors?
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MyrnieMyrn
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Mar 14th, 2010 at 16:29 GMT
25 points
Bring back the Tan M&M!
iceman1731
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Jun 26th, 2010 at 04:18 GMT
9 points
Why was red gone for a decade?
OrcaV
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Jun 26th, 2010 at 17:18 GMT
19 points
iceman: "Red candies were eliminated in 1976[8] due to health concerns over the dye amaranth (FD&C Red #2), which was a suspected carcinogen, and were replaced with orange-colored candies. This was done despite the fact that M&M's did not contain the dye; the action was purely to satisfy worried consumers. Red candies were reintroduced later, but they also kept the orange colored M&M's." -wikipedia Hope that helped.
cassavetes
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Aug 25th, 2010 at 23:32 GMT
18 points
down with blue m&ms! i think i'm still bitter. i was 11 the summer that they held the contest to decide which color would replace tan. i must have voted for purple a hundred times (the "ballot" postcards were no postage required and i would pick up a handful every time i saw them at the store) and i was so pissed when blue won. ...aaand i'm not sure why i just told that story.
MRL
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Aug 26th, 2010 at 12:30 GMT
1 point
Blue M&Ms still look weird to me. I think it's the shade... the light blue ones at Easter don't bother me.
Game published: Sep 1st, 2010 at 22:57 GMT
XCBoss
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Sep 1st, 2010 at 23:05 GMT
49 points
I've never heard of Tan M&Ms. Kind of a strange color if you ask me.
kbelle
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Sep 1st, 2010 at 23:11 GMT
26 points
I liked the tan M&Ms. Stupid blue replaced them. Anyone else remember eating M&Ms before going up to bat? Brown was a single, Yellow a double, Orange a triple and Green was a homerun.
Chromatos
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Sep 1st, 2010 at 23:17 GMT
34 points
So I says, "Blue M&M, Red M&M... they all wind up the same colour in the end".
drn211
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Sep 1st, 2010 at 23:18 GMT
4 points
@kbelle no, but I do remember the commercials that were based around that.
zalkon2004
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Sep 1st, 2010 at 23:26 GMT
58 points
No Reds from 1976-87, maybe it was M&M's that brought down the USSR?
featherfish81
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Sep 1st, 2010 at 23:28 GMT
29 points
Thanks for accepting "light brown" for tan - that was what I always called it.
Hejman
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Sep 1st, 2010 at 23:39 GMT
32 points
Is this where I should confess my compulsive habit of eating M&M's in order by color? Probably not. What a fun, quick quiz. Congrats on your first publication MVP!
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El_Duderino
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Sep 1st, 2010 at 23:40 GMT
-14 points
Ah, I totally remember the hangover-poop-colored ones...
SanityLapse
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Sep 1st, 2010 at 23:56 GMT
29 points
I miss the light brown ones. They used to be my favorite.
akwatfanroadie
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 00:11 GMT
16 points
@SanityLapse The tan ones were my favorite too! Good to know I'm not the only one to ever say that. Way better than blue.
Supernuke
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 00:28 GMT
6 points
Do they still make almond M&Ms? I loved those so much as a kid!
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ezois
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 00:40 GMT
-6 points
SanityLapse: The light brown ones were tan.
dmalato2
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 00:43 GMT
29 points
Kinda funny that more people guessed purple than tan, considering most people on this site never saw purple M&Ms.
MonteCresta
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 01:57 GMT
5 points
Tan! I thought it was brown and dark brown.
idledandy
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 02:10 GMT
10 points
I hated when they got rid of tan! They were my favorite.
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awix
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 02:32 GMT
-23 points
No joke...My dad's cousin invented the blue M&M in 1995 because she graduated from Penn State and wanted blue and white M&Ms for her wedding.
kmusheno
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 02:38 GMT
14 points
In 1995, the contest to replace tan M&Ms involved a vote between blue, purple, and pink M&Ms. All three were included in regularly marked packages.
hothamwater
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 02:57 GMT
24 points
I miss the tan m&ms. Why did they have to replace the old ones? can't the m&ms just get along?
Moonman190
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 04:15 GMT
2 points
You know what's better than the drop from 7th (92.7%) to least (30%)? Tan M&Ms are better than the solid 62.7% drop.
agrigator717
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 04:46 GMT
5 points
@kmusheno: I remember that contest! I voted for the blue and so did my friends. No one really cared for a pink M&M so I'm glad that color lost.
crazydiamond1to9
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 05:13 GMT
13 points
too many young people here, tan gets no love
sunny1192
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 06:47 GMT
4 points
@dmalato2: I don't know about everyone else, but after a while I just started guessing what seemed like obvious colors. (Which is why I missed tan!) ;-)
Dorak
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 06:56 GMT
14 points
So those teens wondering why they should care about World War II and the "Greatest Generation"? Answer: As a kid you never had tan M&Ms.
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Sporcla
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 09:23 GMT
-20 points
Is it true they only sold tan ones in hot countries and on beaches?
SenorKristobbal
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 10:52 GMT
6 points
Pretty sure there was no tan in the UK
icing
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 11:31 GMT
5 points
I remembered that there was a light brown and a dark brown, but would not have guessed to call it "tan" ... MVP, could you give us any wiggle room here, or did the M&M people specifically refer to that color as "tan"?
jon88
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 12:58 GMT
-4 points
How the blazes did so many people manage to guess violet? And fail to guess tan? Very unexpected stats.
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VValentine
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 13:03 GMT
-18 points
20 seconds flat
AlexKrycek
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 13:42 GMT
3 points
"They melt in your mouth, not in your hand." They were developed for inclusion in the meal rations for soldiers during WWII. I too, miss the tan ones.
david_rain_fan
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 13:59 GMT
9 points
@jon88: because you can just put purple in for violet, and purple sounds like a reasonable colour. However, if you don't remember tan and have already guessed brown, you aren't likely to think there would be another brown m&m. Great quiz, btw.
kclock
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 14:18 GMT
15 points
So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night.
Bob91351
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 14:32 GMT
7 points
Of course, they also have "special occasion" colors of white, pink, black, and probably others... And red was probably missing for those years due to some cancer-causing dye scare...
heyitsbryan
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 14:37 GMT
6 points
Yeah, I vividly remember the commercials that ran on TV when I was in 4th grade... I remember thinking even then how blue would easily beat pink and purple. (Isn't blue the most common favorite color?) What they DIDN'T tell us is that the winner would replace another color. RIP light brown. I also vividly remember eating the light brown M&Ms. I'm kinda surprised more people didn't get that answer.
mattv1
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 14:52 GMT
4 points
I can't believe I don't even remember tan M&Ms. I was 13 in 1995 and I remember the new color contest. I wanted blue to win and blue is still my favorite.
skSK
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Sep 2nd, 2010 at 15:16 GMT
5 points
@kclock: I managed to take out the Bengal tiger wif a can of mace, but the shopkeeper and his son, well, that's anuver story altogevah. I had to beat them to death wif their own shoes... nasty business, really.
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