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GOTTA LOVE THIS....."two guys were hikeing in colorado rockies. they come up on a grissley bear on his hind legs , grinding his teeth. One guy says to the other "what are we gona do" the other guy says I'm gonna run for it. The other guy says "you know you can't outrun a bear". The other guy says, kinda of slowly "well, I've only got to outrun you". "

OK 1 MORE.....
Excellent writing,

Anonymous writes: ""Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the
strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M
duels.

Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters.That is the "loser," and I eat the inferior one immediately.The winner gets to go another round. I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theatre of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world.

Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment.

When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to:

M&M Mars, A Division of Mars Inc.
Mackettstown, NJ 17840-1503 U.S.

along with a 3 x 5 card reading, "Please use this M&M for breeding purposes". This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free 1/2 pound bag of plain M&Ms. I consider this "grant money." I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the True Champion. There can be only one." "

How do they make M&M's

llll, only you would think of that...... hi my friend

I am serious

llllll....well as you read above, they breed them, something few people knew including myself.......sooooo there has to be a mr and mrs M&M....i would think....and the different colors come from hmmmm......a few getting out of there m&m bags and fooling around...thats just a guess tho, don't quote me on that one....its really hard to say seeing as they leave no tracks....they do melt in ur mouth NOT in ur hand.....after reading this i kinda wish they did melt in my hand not in my mouth...... i hope this clears things up for you....

Ok What Now:


~!*~!*~!*~!*~!*~!*~!*~!*WHAT~?*~*?~*?~*?~*?~*?~*?~*?

Just how many M&M's you been eating? And what are they laced with? Or should I say what are ya washing them down with?

Interesting little story, but I am reading between the lines, and I sense a "story behind the story". And I can't decipher it. My brother does stuff like that, leaves me havin' to use the stuff deep down inside my brain. (which I do not call upon very often, ) Scares me when someone on here uses the word BLUE, I start reading into it.

Did I make as little sense as you did? I HOPE SO.........

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Oh, and I LOVED your first story too, the joke.

It's kinda like the one about the 5 mile race.

The smart aleck who was "second to last" turned to the guy behind him and said "So.....how it feel to be in the very last place?"

So the guy in last place sat down, dropped out of the race, and replied "I don't know........ YOU tell ME."

(Oh no, I feel a "tell a joke" thread comin' on. Ya see what ya started??)

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Mars Inc.'s first foray into the entertainment business is a colorful, interactive look at how M&M's candies, the top-selling chocolate candy in the world, are made.
But visitors to the M&M's Academy, on the third floor of M&M's World at the Showcase Mall, certainly won't mistake it for the real thing. The self-guided attraction goes for a whimsical touch throughout.
At the beginning of the 8,500-square-foot exhibit, brightly colored simulated peanut roasters turn peanuts in their shells. Opposite the roasters, simulated milk gets a sloshing in a machine.
But that's barely a tune-up for what follows. Up ahead, the color-coating area shoots water in streams overhead into containers, with water deliberately set by the attraction's designers to lightly sprinkle visitors.
Next up, visitors cross a walkway that simulates the queasy effect of being in an earthquake, with colors revolving overhead. It's actually the color-coating part of the process.
Then a whoosh of air at the end signals the drying process has begun.
That's followed by revolving polishing wheels, designed to buff up the candy, that visitors can bounce off of.
"This is the area that kids enjoy going through," says Bernie Lee of M&M's World.
The wheels are not dangerous and don't turn fast. "We went through the most measures we could to make sure it's absolutely safe," Lee says.
The next part of the exhibit is the Mars Memorial Stadium, where visitors are given an "M" to stick on their shirts. The stadium has goal posts, a crowd in the stands comprised of M&M's, and music and cheers of the crowd.
That leads down a hallway of M&M's Labs. Push the handle on a door labeled Physiological Endurance Analysis and there's the silhouette of an M&M on a treadmill. The Advanced Packaging Studies lab features silhouetted M&Ms flying through the air into waiting containers. And through the window of the Shell Durability Testing lab an M&M wearing sunglasses lounges under a heat lamp. As the slogan goes, M&M's melt in your mouth, not in your hands.
A six-minute pre-show skit, starring a white lab-coated "professor," leads into the attraction's highlight, a 9 1/2-minute 3-D animated movie in which an M&M named Red loses the white "M" on his chest and goes through a series of comic misadventures with his buddy Yellow in an attempt to get it back.
The film was made by Will Vinton Studios, perhaps most famous for its California raisins commercials.
The attraction, 1 1/2 years in planning and development, cost "several million" to build, according to Lee.
"This is targeted to families," he says. "We feel M&M's are loved by kids and adults. It's a much simpler, fun version of what goes into making M&M's."
Besides M&M's, Mars Inc. also makes Snickers, 3 Musketeers, Dove, Milky Way, Skittles and Starburst candies, and owns the Ethel M Chocolates factory in Henderson.
After this weekend, hours of operation change. The Academy will be open 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays, and 11 a.m.-9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. It will be closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Yeehhhhh Hawwwwwwwww AllStar's on a rollllllllllllllllllllllllllll

When researching the colors of the M&M's chocolate candies, one should go to the source, or several sources, in this case. I would not consider myself an M&M expert, as I have only consumed some 2000 bags of the candies over the past decade (averaging approximately 3.2 bags of M&M's per week, but that was with the help of some members of my family, which will remain nameless at this juncture). However, I have noticed some interesting trends (or irregularities) which I have only documented through anecdotal evidence. It seems that some bags of M&M's have a completely different mixture of colors, which are far beyond the range of what one would expect from a random sample. For instance, one bag I enjoyed in late 1994 (it was after Thanksgiving, but before Christmas) actually had 12 browns in a row, which came out of the torn corner of the bag. I always tear the bag diagonally at a 45 degree angle across the corner, leaving an opening of approximately 5/8" (or 16mm), which allows the dispensing of individual candies, presented one at a time into the palm of your hand.
Speaking of M&M's in your hand, the old slogan "Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hand" was actually developed during WWII, when the Pentagon was looking for a chocolate candy for the GI's which would not require washing after eating. In keeping with the U.S. armed forces requirements for edible combat rations, the M&M Mars corporation created the top secret formula for a colorful candy shell, but for camoflage purposes, only brown and green were offered for distribution to combat areas ("Candy Goes to War" LIFE Magazine, August 1943, pp 35-38). The notion that a chocolate candy could be held in a sweaty palm without dissolving on the surface of the flesh was a novel one, and one that helped to propel the lowly M&M to the stature it enjoys today, as the 3rd most poular candy in the world ("Modern Confectioner" May 1999, p 22).
Interestingly enough, the one of the greatest marketing faux paus in the last half of the twentieth century came from the M&M executives who were offered to have the candies appear as an important plot point in the highest-grossing movie of all time, Steven Speilberg's ET the Extra Terrestrial. M&M turned down the free appearance in the movie, refusing to let Speilberg use their trademark candy when Elliot, the lead character, made a path of candies on the ground to attract the alien. M&M executive thought that an alien eating their candies would be repulsive to the public. Instead, Speilberg had to use a rival brand of candy, Reese's Pieces (which as we all know are orange and brown), and the rest is history.

lllll...YOU WERE SERIOUSSSSSS........ i knew all that ..why didn't you just ask allstar...

OR................. a thread on the history of M&M's.

I can go with that.

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AllStar Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 1:01 pm Post subject:

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You folks are kooky!! But life, just like M&Ms, is better with nuts than without!

pointier?

Now...... about that 1st Bear Joke....... True story! Hubby and I went to Big Bear! Took the ski lift (in the summer) to mountain bike. The guy at the top looks at my husband's T-shirt and says "There's been a bear sighting and that Tae Kwon Do stuff isn't gonna help you!" My husband says "That's OK, I brought her and I can peddle faster than she can!" (pointing to me)! With a smile on my face, I respond my giving him a very interesting gesture! .........anyway!!

We didn't see any bears but my husband did to take me on the "expert" bike trail and it nearly killed me! One track with cliffs most of the way!! No M&M's to be found either!!

So the vet drops off these pills at the ranch, and told the hired hand they were to help the bull perform better. Made sense to the cowpoke, 'cause that ole boy had been plain 'disinterested' as of late.

The Rancher returns to find his favorite bull back in action. "Yee Haw! What y'all do?!?!" He asks the cowpoke.

"Fed him a couple of these here pills the Vet dropped off last week and away he went", He said with a smile.

"Wow! What's in those things??" asks the Rancher.

"Don't know, but they taste like M&Ms" Replies the cowpoke with a wink ....grinning widely.