Can you name the traditional M&M milk chocolate shell colors?

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M&M Colors Quiz

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Created by: MVP -
Contributed: March 13th, 2010
Published: September 1st, 2010
Category: Just For Fun
Plays: 185,228

Tags: Color Quizzes, milk, chocolate, shell, Editor Pick, traditional

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	XCBoss:	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:	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:	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:	Sep 1st, 2010 at 23:18 GMT	4 points
	@kbelle no, but I do remember the commercials that were based around that.

	zalkon2004:	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:	Sep 1st, 2010 at 23:28 GMT	29 points
	Thanks for accepting "light brown" for tan - that was what I always called it.

	Hejman:	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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	SanityLapse:	Sep 1st, 2010 at 23:56 GMT	29 points
	I miss the light brown ones. They used to be my favorite.

	akwatfanroadie:	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:	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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	dmalato2:	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:	Sep 2nd, 2010 at 01:57 GMT	5 points
	Tan! I thought it was brown and dark brown.

	idledandy:	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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	kmusheno:	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:	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:	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:	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:	Sep 2nd, 2010 at 05:13 GMT	13 points
	too many young people here, tan gets no love

	sunny1192:	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:	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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	SenorKristobbal:	Sep 2nd, 2010 at 10:52 GMT	6 points
	Pretty sure there was no tan in the UK

	icing:	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:	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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	AlexKrycek:	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:	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:	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:	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:	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:	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:	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.