M&M's Milk Chocolate Candy, 42-Ounce Package

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Kusher, Barak (2012). "Sweetness and Empire". In Franks, Penelope; Hunter, Janet (eds.). The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850–2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan. pp.127–150. ISBN 978-0-230-27366-5. Forrest Mars, Sr., son of the founder of the Mars Company Frank C. Mars, invented the idea for the 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. Mars received a patent for his own process on March 3, 1941. [3] Production began in 1941 in a factory located at 285 Badger Avenue in Clinton Hill, Newark, New Jersey. When the company was originally founded it was M&M Limited. [4] The two "M's" represent the names of Forrest E. Mars Sr., the founder of Newark Company and Bruce Murrie (son of Hershey's Chocolate president William F. R. Murrie) [5] who had a 20 percent share in the product. The arrangement allowed the candies to be made with Hershey chocolate which had control of the rationed chocolate at the time. [6] Flanagan, Graham (June 17, 2014). "How M&Ms Passed On The Product Placement Opportunity Of A Lifetime". Business Insider. Archived from the original on February 5, 2019 . Retrieved September 6, 2019. The only reason Reese's Pieces got the lucrative product placement in the first place was because M&Ms had already refused the filmmakers permission to use its product in the film William F.R. Murrie, 1873-1950". Hershey Community Archives. The M.S. Hershey Foundation. Archived from the original on April 20, 2019 . Retrieved January 22, 2011.

Mars Chocolate Australia M&M's: Bare All". Adeevee.com. January 11, 2010. Archived from the original on May 11, 2016 . Retrieved September 6, 2019. Find sources: "Milk chocolate"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( November 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) In 1991, Peanut Butter M&M's were released. These candies have peanut butter inside the chocolate shell and the same color scheme as the other varieties. As of at least 2013, the size of the peanut butter M&M has become slightly smaller. In 1995, tan M&Ms were discontinued to be replaced by blue. To introduce the new color, the Home Shopping Network televised a promotional video for the blue M&M. Producer Jon Watson became the first man to wear the famous blue M&M suit. [21]In early 1995, Mars ran a promotion in which consumers were invited to vote on which of blue, pink, or purple would replace the tan M&M's. Blue was the winner with 54% of the votes. [72] It replaced tan in late 1995. Consumers could vote by calling 1-800-FUN-COLOR. Ads for the new blue colors featured a plain and an almond blue M&M character as Red and Yellow take notice of trying to do takes in the commercial by painting themselves blue where they appear on stage with B.B. King singing the blues, but the filmmakers had to cut the scene as they were not the real blue M&M's; another featured Red and Yellow holding their breath to look like the new blue M&M's, where Steven Weber sees the three M&M's, Red, Yellow, and Blue; and one more featuring Weber talking to the blue M&M if he had dived into the chocolate pool, but did not. Gently melt until smooth. You can use the microwave to do this, using 30 second bursts and stirring after each burst. Alternatively, you can put an inch of water in a pan, place the bowl on top (so that the water isn't touching the bowl) and bring to the boil so that the steam gently melts the chocolate, stirring as you go. Noble, Mark D. (2017). "Chocolate and the Consumption of Forests: A Cross-National Examination of Ecologically Unequal Exchange in Cocoa Exports". Journal of World-Systems Research. 23 (2): 236–268. doi: 10.5195/JWSR.2017.731.

The Nestle archives show [10] that George Harris of Rowntree and Forrest Mars Sr. agreed, after much negotiation, to share the marketplace rather than compete, with Rowntree making Mars Bars in Canada, Erie and South Africa and with Mars making M&M's in America without competition from Smarties, and Rowntree did not attempt to sue Mars for stealing their concept. [11] Orange M&M's chocolate candy in cross-section with millimeter ruler for scale. Shows layers of hard-panned coating. Kiner, Deb (February 2, 2023). "M&M's characters will return after the Super Bowl and 'exploring their outside passions' ". pennlive . Retrieved February 12, 2023. The first instance of "milk chocolate" appeared soon after, referring to a drink of chocolate combined with milk. In 1687, Hans Sloane, an Irish physician and collector, introduced the beverage to London after seeing the people of Jamaica enjoying the drink. [3] The preparation was promoted for its medicinal properties, and was manufactured by Nicholas Sanders and William White, and was joined by other milk chocolates around the city. [4] From there, milk chocolate spread, first to France, where the pharmacist to Louis XVI, Sulpice Debauve, introduced the drink to the Court, and then further afield, reaching as far as the United States by 1834. [5] In the early 1950s, the Midwest Research Institute (now MRIGlobal) in Kansas City, Missouri, worked on behalf of M&M's to perfect a process whereby 3,300 pounds (1,500kg) of chocolate centers could be coated every hour. [16]In 1976, Mars eliminated red-colored M&M's [69] because of health concerns over the dye amaranth ( FD&C Red #2), which was a suspected carcinogen, and replaced them with orange M&M's. This was done despite the fact that M&M's did not contain the dye; the action was purely to satisfy worried consumers. [15] Ten years later, Paul Hethmon, then a student at University of Tennessee, started a joke campaign to reinstate red M&M's that would eventually become a worldwide phenomenon. [70] Red M&M's were reintroduced as a result, and the orange M&M's that had originally replaced them were kept in production. In Europe, red M&M's contain the red dye carmine (E120, cochineal). [71] During the Easter season, it’s hard to resist M&M Eggs. Their crispy shells and milk chocolate interior should be safe for people on a gluten-free diet. Haver, Gianni; Middleton, Robert (2015). Swissness in a Nutshell. Basel: Schwabe. ISBN 9783905252644. Melina, Remy (February 10, 2011). "Why Were Red M&M's Discontinued for a Decade? LiveScience". Live Science. Archived from the original on May 23, 2018 . Retrieved May 22, 2018. a b Collins, Ross F. (2022). Chocolate: A Cultural Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p.310. ISBN 9781440876080.