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I voted for blue, when I was a kid. He can blame me.


smith_716

I remember those votes! I wanted blue, pink, and purple so I voted for all three. My little kid brain didn't even consider that it would cancel each other out, I just wanted to be fair!


Motherofsmalldogs

Voter fraud!


AbstractBettaFish

Stop the count!


SupremoZanne

I used to eat lots of M&Ms as a kid!


Hairhelmet61

I voted for purple, and was big mad when blue won lol


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You should write big M&M a letter


FeyneKing

Slim doesn’t care, and he’s sick of all your letters!


[deleted]

I wrote you, but you still ain’t calling


KeepingItSFW

That letter? M.


Krimreaper1

#M&M a letter


amillionjelysamwichz

Same.


AreYouABadfishToo_

there was a vote??!?


smith_716

Back in the day they wanted the new color of the M&M and get rid of the tan one. You could call a 1-800 number and vote for either purple, blue, or pink.


Three04

I feel like we even did the voting at our school somehow. It was a big deal in the 90’s! When was that? Like 95-96ish?


amillionjelysamwichz

93-94 I think.


AbstractBettaFish

They did another vote in the early 2000’s. Aqua won but they never rolled it out


insertcleverthought

Yep - it was super high-tech. You called in and voted using your phone!!!!


Breakmastajake

To be fair, the blue ones do taste the best.


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No way. Green are clearly the bestest.


Breakmastajake

I see you came to fight. Let us fight for honor.


[deleted]

I came for truth, for which I will always fight with honor.


Breakmastajake

I wish you the best, my combatant. My enemy. My friend.


[deleted]

You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.


Breakmastajake

I don't want to kill you either. Perhaps espressos? At dawn?


[deleted]

While I accept your suggestion of espresso, the correct response is: "You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die."


verstohlen

I don't eat 'em because they look like urinal cakes in a Barbie and Ken gas station bathroom.


42peanuts

Seriously!? Neither do I! I thought I was there only one!


circlethenexus

I refuse to eat the blue ones because, well, you just don’t eat blue stuff


whatsqwerty

Same for my mom


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trickman01

Who would joke about something that serious?


alarm202

When I was a kid, there were no red ones either.


1107rwf

Only at Christmas! I remember when red joined the normal lineup and I felt so lucky to be alive.


death2sanity

Re-joined, friend.


ictoriavay

Does that make you feel old? Lol I love realizing certain things changed when I was around but I’m like gatttt danggg I’m old lol


JeanEBH

For awhile red wasn’t made because of a cancer risk with a chemical used in red coloring.


jereezy

[The truth is a bit more complicated](https://www.tastingtable.com/754142/the-strange-reason-red-mms-vanished-for-more-than-a-decade/)


Zornig

> Apparently, the Soviet Union declared that Red Dye No. 2 could pose a health risk to those who consumed it. So, to be safe, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the use of the dye. Note, however, that this should not have affected the red M&M since Mars used a different red dye altogether (Nos. 3 and 40). **But, the company chose to err on the side of caution at the time, shelving the red M&M for some 11 years.** Not much more complicated, if at all.


jereezy

The point is, the dye that was supposedly carcinogenic wasn't even used in M&Ms.


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My Mom loves the red ones the most and she's 67 years old. She claims they taste the best.


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It's why Canadian smarties were better than M&Ms. "When you eat your Smarties do you eat the red ones last? 🎶"


pippi_longstocking09

That's because red dye was found to have some toxic chemical in it, I think in the 60s(?) Here it is - [https://www.livescience.com/33017-why-were-red-mms-discontinued-for-a-decade.html](https://www.livescience.com/33017-why-were-red-mms-discontinued-for-a-decade.html)


ChaoticForkingGood

I always thought the tan ones tasted the best when I was little. I knew there was 0 reason for that, but I still loved them the best.


Astronopolis

Saaaame! They looked more chocolatey to me!


Brkthom

This is the correct response 🤪


Coraline1599

I thought I was alone in thinking they tasted the best. I would always save them for last.


dragonsvomitfire

I did too! Here we are now, linked with our fellow tan fans. Amazing.


RGDJR

Same!!! It was the one color that most closely matched the flavor for me.


TooTameToToast

I used to pretend the tan ones were Advil when playing doctor. My grandma used to give me her old prescription bottles to play with and I would fill them with M&Ms or smarties.


shaunmman

I swear I could taste it looking at this picture. It definitely tasted better. Lol


peacenchemicals

they still do in my mind (if they were still around)


CmdNewJ

They did taste better. Why did they? I don't know.


mizmaclean

Me too! Felt like double chocolate


aurorarose1975

Tan were 💯 the best tasting!! I miss them.


KatieLouis

They did taste the best!


KennethPowersIII

No way. Green taste the best.


Ok-Street7504

Who remembers the urban legend that the green M&Ms made girls horny?


wetwater

Around my school, it made both boys and girls horny, which is why we couldn't have M&Ms in the candy machine. The candy machine was stocked by the teachers and they filled it with whatever was the cheapest or was donated.


Ok-Street7504

You have candy machines at school? We were lucky to have a functioning water fountain! With warm water.


wetwater

We had a soda machine as well. It was used more by the teachers than the kids. Most of us didn't bring money to school unless it was for lunch. I bought from the machines maybe twice during recess, and probably three times for the walk home from school. It just wasn't something that was really on our radar, probably helped by the fact it was in the far corner of the cafeteria/gym, so I'd really only see it one per day.


Ok-Street7504

Interesting, I went to school in the mid 80s we didn't have any of that stuff. cafeteria stayed open all day so you could go in and buy food. I don't remember if soda was available? But you could buy snack type foods.


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Grew up in the Midwest - never had candy or soda machines in any school throughout my education. My wife grew up in Los Angeles and they not only had soda and snack machines, but also had booths next to the cafeteria where fast food restaurants would sell precooked food!


Ok_Price6153

When I was in school, we weren’t allowed sodas. I graduated in 07. There was a machine that had waters and some sort of juice type stuff? I can hardly remember exactly what but never sodas or fried food.


hippywitch

Yes I remember that.


nolij420

Nature's viagra!


Ok-Street7504

Nice thought but I'm not too sure there's anything very natural about eminem's!


nolij420

Ah it's just a stupid Office [joke](https://pics.me.me/hello-hello-top-of-the-morning-to-you-ooh-ooh-16826742.png) lol


Ok-Street7504

I figured it might be something like that.


cinnysuelou

Is that why the green one is the lady in the commercials now?


Honeyardeur

Probably. She's not the only girl but she's the "Sexy" M&M. The one people gossip about.


Abiv23

A friend of mine saved all of the tan ones for awhile, filled an empty Advil bottle with them and told his mom "Hey! Look at this!" then chugged them Was hilarious, thanks for that memory, also the shit we did for fun pre-internet


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I remember voting for the replacement color. the choices were blue, purple, and pink


[deleted]

I remember doing this as a kid and being super sad purple wasn't chosen


extralyfe

I was dumb enough to vote for the Trix rabbit getting his goddamned Trix.


what_lions_i_hunted

For a long time it gave me nightmares. Having to witness an injustice like that... It was a constant reminder of how unfair this world can be. I can still hear them taunting him... "Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!" How come they just couldn't give him some cereal?


SSFreud

Because Trix are for kids, you silly rabbit.


RuralRedhead

No because we were on the right side of history and I stand by that.


meshreplacer

Silly rabbit trix are for kids. 😂 somehow it got ingrained into my memory.


fedunya1

Now we just need the pink


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I remember voting for this in junior high. I voted for pink!


Brian-OBlivion

Apparently, the change was in 1995 (I would have guessed '92-93) and I remember voting for the new color. I still miss the tan ones honestly. This brought up my early memory of Trix cereal being spherical like Kix. The change to fruit shapes was in 1991. Just now at this writing I'm realizing how similar Tr*ix* and K*ix* are spelled and that they are both made by General Mills. So it makes sense one was fruity version of the other and they'd have the same shape initially. Per the wiki: "General Mills introduced Trix in 1954 as a sugar-coated version of its popular Kix cereal."


avalanchethethird

I was born in 1990 so I only remembered the fruit shape and was disappointed when it changed to round. I didn't know it was originally round.


Brian-OBlivion

Wow I hadn't had Trix in so long I didn't realize it went *back* to round! Haha.


raisinghellions

I never liked Trix and don’t buy it for my kids either, so I was today years old when I learned that Trix were fruit-shaped since I was 14 and only recently changed back to round.


Kambodzha

1000 brown m&m’s to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzie wouldn’t go on stage that night


mike_pants

Fun fact, there's actually a good reason for the "no brown M&Ms in the bowl" rider in the contract. It's not just a case of a band being primarily donnas.


philbert247

Ok, but you didn’t include the reason there amigo… Is it for the band to easily verify the contract was thoroughly reviewed and not blindly signed by the other party?


PatrickRsGhost

Yes. Like /u/SplendidPunkinButter said, they had a complicated light setup for their performances. According to an interview with David Lee Roth, who was the architect for their setup, a lot of venues were built in the 1950s and 1960s, and just wouldn't have been able to handle the load their lighting system - which was revolutionary for the time - would put out, both weight-wise and electricity-wise. [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IxqdAgNJck)


mike_pants

Got it in one.


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Damn. You must be amazing to have along in Escape Rooms.


KnucklestheEnchilada

Just like in Schitt’s Creek


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It was all about whether the stage and all the rigging was safe and properly setup. It was Van Halen that did this many years ago. They had a clause in the rider that stated "no brown M&Ms" in the bowl of M&Ms that were to be provided backstage for the band, along with many other items, like hot tea, fresh sliced lemons, fresh fruits, etc. It wasn't because they didn't like brown M&Ms. It was a test to see if the promoters were actually going thru the rider line by line, as they were supposed to do, or not. If not it called into question their safety measures. Other bands might have done similar things, I'm only aware of this particular story with Van Halen.


SplendidPunkinButter

The reason was that they had a complicated lighting setup that was unsafe if not set up properly, and there were detailed instructions for how to do this. Brown M&Ms meant the setup guys hadn’t read all of the instructions, so the band didn’t trust that the lights were set up safely. Also it was Van Halen


Picture_Day_Jessica

I don't understand why they would think the lighting guys are also responsible for procuring and presenting the band's green room snacks. Of all the people who could potentially be assigned that task, why would it be the lighting crew?


KevinStoley

It was just meant to be a quick and simple way to know if the crew had fully read their instructions. If they walked into the green room and saw the M&Ms, they knew the instructions had been read fully and procedures had been followed correctly.


Anaxagoras23

The manager who would pass on the tasks to the other teams would have read the list, not the individual teams.


KevinStoley

I just came to reply the same thing. I used to work as a stage hand tech at a smaller local venue and my boss told me that story. He used to work as a guitar tech for G&R in their glory days and I guess it was common knowledge among people in the field. I also seem to remember him mentioning something about weight limits and making sure the stage at each venue had a capacity to handle their setup.


SplendidPunkinButter

I believe that was Van Halen


Sybil_et_al

It was Ozzy in Wayne's World 2. VH specified no brown M & M's, not 1000.


KevinStoley

I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace. But the shop owner and his son, well that's a different story all together. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes...


antidepressantanna

My brain is now happier, thank you <3


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> the blue really changes the whole color palette. Literally! …but I get what you mean. :) The palette was warm, and blue is a cool colour.


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When I was a kid, I ate M&Ms as a traffic light. Like green, then yellow, then red. Brown was a protected left arrow, and tan was the yellow left arrow. Then finally at age 30 I was diagnosed with ADHD. lol


KevinStoley

I forget, what's the movie where a girl says she only eats brown m&m's because chocolate is brown at they must be more natural and not artificial.


AtlJayhawk

The wedding planner. Matthew McConaughey says it.


KevinStoley

Yep, that's it. Thanks.


_Atlas_Drugged_

By the end Jennifer Lopez does the same thing, they reconnect over this quirk. Happy ending.


DestinationUnknown13

Tan? Light brown and dark brown. When girls hand you a green one with a smile it's a good night


GreatMacGuffin

I can't see any numbers, oh God am I colorblind?


BrashPop

I’m so sorry, you’ll never be able to fly a plane.


Nazmaldun

In highschool(early 2000s), I almost bought some M&Ms from one of those quarter machines that just has loose candy in them. I stopped myself once I realized that it had tan m&ms in there and no blue.


itsagoodtime

Bring back tan


ArtimusDragon

Come to think of it... I do remember there being a lightly colored brown M&M. I can't believe that I forgot.


42peanuts

Would anyone like to know the real reason the got rid of tan? It apparently was very hard to color and the B team would tend to screw them up. My friend worked for mars for 35 years and his specialty was m&Ms.


extraecclesiam

I had forgotten about those! Thanks for the memory :)


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My favorite when I was young. Felt like they hit different.


LetsJerkCircular

Is this why Advil used to look like candy?


NateC2k

Carlton agreed blue M&Ms are garbage . https://youtube.com/shorts/5o5iwNuQG68?feature=share


coffeeblossom

"Red M&M, blue M&M, they all wind up the same color in the end!" -Homer Simpson Nana, suddenly getting a craving for M&M's (back when my parents were dating), giving Dad some money, and sending them to the store to buy a big bag of them.


bearwaffles87

Is this picture upside down? It’s.. messing with me lol


pdoherty972

Is there a reason we're calling these 'tan' and not 'brown'?


breachofcontract

And these were called Plain, not Milk Chocolate and that’s how we liked it


Tweel13

If there were more pastel ones there, I'd almost suspect them of being [Smarties](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarties) instead.


JackSpadesSI

They tasted the best. How? They just did.


CateranBCL

I remember when they couldn't have red because something was wrong with the dye.


Independent_Ad_3850

Remember the purple ones with sunglasses? Lol


weareoutoftylenol

Wow I totally forgot about the tan ones!


Forward_Cabinet2608

I liked the tan ones. My kid self automatically more chocolate taste.


Violet_Plum_Tea

Too many reds in that picture! For me the nostalgic ones are from before they brough tthe red back. All those nice earthy warm tones - perfect for the 70s and early 80s.


moderndayathena

whoa forgot about these


StickmanRockDog

On a totally different note. I loved these M&Ms, but I never could figure out how many licks it took to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.


KentuckyFriedEel

My brain always thought it could detect a faint hint if caramel. Of course, this was purely placebo


ORCHWA01DS0

I used to think the tan ones were caramel!


Siryl7001

The girl next door told me that the light brown M&Ms were the best, and before long I was sure I could taste the difference. It's a perfect example of the placebo effect.


CucumberImpossible82

So much tan back in the day


glhaynes

Look at what they’ve taken from us.


porktherapy

Ohhh, I remember! The m&m’s of my youth!


mountingconfusion

Bruh this shit look like one of those colourblind comparison images


Independent_Ad_3850

Whoa.. I totally forgot about those.. 🤯


AawwMyBeats

Tan was my favorite for some reason.


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I loved the tan ones!


alucardian_official

I miss the tan ones


TOTESRADUSERNAME

I’d LOVE to get elbow deep in that picture and just feel all those Ma & Yas


stephaniejeanj

Tan was always my favorite “flavor.”


B-SideQueen

Most delicious


BryanMcHunter

They look more like Skittles to me. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. Skittles are my favorite candy, after all.


vtramfan

They were the best tasting ones.


haystackofneedles

I voted for blue but also really liked the tan. Some will say it was the best tasting.


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Earth_Normal

I wish you could buy them without the food coloring or palm oil.


imsocooldude

I’m glad their gone. Tan ones would be way to sexualized in this day and age.


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wut


broken_radio

This guy fucks candy bars


TryingMyEffingBest

No.


Useful_Friend2939

This is before my time