Posted on 07/29/2009 10:52:19 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
I just purchased a package of Peanut Butter M&M's that has led me to ponder three things:
I eat nuts, french fries and pretty much everything one at a time. My husband will finish his meal in one third the time it takes me. It doesn’t seem to bother him.
You mean you can eat more than one french at a time?
Who knew!
Go to my FRprofile (my name below), and about 1/2 way down the profile is a story called “Green M&M’s”.
.....Bob
An old man and a young man work together in an office. The old man always has a jar of peanuts on his desk, and the young man really loves peanuts.
One day, while the old man is away from his desk, the young man yields to temptation and scarfs down over half of the contents of the jar. When the old man returns, the young man feels guilty and confesses to his crime.
“Don’t worry, son. I never eat the peanuts anyway,” the old man replies. “Since I lost my teeth, all I can do is gum chocolate off the M&M’s.”
I saw something about this on cable TV. But, I wasn’t interested so I did remember what they said. Food network has all these answers and more. Maybe it was just the regular M&M’s not peanut butter. This also might very by country. If you go to their website you can order only the colors you want.
Call the company and ask them.I’m sure they will have a better answer than anyone posting.
Repression from the majority orange and greens, obviously. The greens breed like rabbits and will join the majority by 2030. The browns do the jobs that the blue and orange won't do. The yellows and reds are mired in the past and practice permanent victimhood and want to be handed majority status without earning it.
Either that, or the machines fill the bags randomly color-wise. Not sure which.
#3 M&Ms for packaging are dumped into a hopper, they are then packaged by weight, not by color distribution. Now whether or not all colors are equally represented in the hopper to begin with, have no idea, suppose its possible they make fewer of one color than another if that color costs more to make.
Most “scientists” are bottle washers and button sorters.
Robert Heinlein
I don’t know. I’m diabetic and can’t eat them, so consider yourself lucky and don’t worry about the little stuff.
It’s just candy idiot, if you don’t like their packaging don’t buy it and shut up!
Wait - I’m wrong - there used to be more browns... wait no - think I’ll go to the mall and have my name paged...
I used to eat them two by two by color and then finish by eating the rest by the ones closest on the color spectrum! lol
Your wife is a commie. ;-P
Seriously, I like to divide them into little groups and eat one of each color until they’re gone, but I’ve never considered the demographics of individual bags before...
If you address these questions to the manufacturer, thay will probably send you an entire case of candy free. Worked for us when we questioned why some Almond Joys had no almonds...
:-)
If you address these questions to the manufacturer, thay will probably send you an entire case of candy free. Worked for us when we questioned why some Almond Joys had no almonds...
:-)
You got this part right, anyway. :-)
I sure would like my fiat dollar to be worth
371.25 grains of fine silver.
1. The apostrophe is possessive. They started out as Mars & Murrie’s finest shell coated chocolates.
2. The weight is an average of 48 packs (one retail box) 1.62965704 ounces each, which happens to be 46.2 grams.
3. M&M manufactures them in the following quantity percentages...
Blue 24%
Brown 13%
Green 16%
Orange 20%
Red 13%
Yellow 14%
If you’re not hitting the averages, you just need to keep trying. After all, practice makes perfect.
DA - Here goes, and you are probably not going to like it. I spent 20+ years in the food industry. Although I can’t say with certainty on this particular case, here is what I have seen and done. Most consumers don’t look at the weight of a small product like a pack of M&M’s - or even a big product like soap powder. They just assume it contains the same amount if the package size is the same. If I shave a fraction off ( in this case, say 2 M&M’s from a 2 oz package) I come up with the 1.63 ounces. I am only required to change the weight - not the package size. Most consumers don’t look at the weight or count and realize they used to get more M&M’s for the same money. This helps a manufacturer in many ways, besides just extra profit. It helps give the perception that we haven’t raised our prices, although in reality we have - you are getting less M&M’s for the same money. I don’t know if that is the case with the M&M’s. I do know this: If you can shave even a fraction of a penny off the cost of item that sells millions and millions of units, you can make a tremendous amount of money.-—JM
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