M&Ms Candy Fades to Black and White- Reuters

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&ncid=583&e=4&u=/nm/20031230/od_nm/masterfoods_dc


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"M&M's, the colorful button-shaped candies, are about to go off color for the first time in 60 years, but it remains to be seen whether their fans love or hate the change.

The chocolate-filled sugar-coated candies, made by a division of U.S. confectioner Mars Inc., will be available in only black and white for the next few months instead of the standard six colors as part of a promotional campaign.

Mars' Masterfoods USA division, which also markets chocolate brands such as Snickers, will launch the chiaroscuro version in the United States on Dec. 31. But some stores that ran out of the colorful stock have already received supplies of the new variety."

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[GOPisEvil]

1. WTF?!?!?!?!

BLACK AND WHITE M&M'S?!?!?!?! Come on M&M/Mars - don't be cheap. I know what this is all about. You just don't want to spring for the colored dye. Just give us the colored M&M's dammit. Quit jerking around with tradition. While we're at it, BRING BACK THE TAN M&M'S! Dammit!

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

2. I'm going to miss the green ones

:(

[underpants]

5. Welcome to Dick Cheney's America

No need for color in our lives or in our freakin' candy.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

6. yeah

this must be a dream come true for good old Dick.

[slackmaster]

3. Cool - Now we can use them as playing pieces for Go or checkers

This is going to turn out to be the "New Coke" of candy.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

4. Yeah.

What are they thinking? My first instinct with this is that they're being cheapskates...

[slackmaster]

14. It's got to be a deliberate marketing ploy

A cry for attention. Very predictable.

[scarlet_owl]

7. I must live in a test market because we've had them here

for months.

[underpants]

8. How long until Freepers start complaining about the # of black ones?

That is all for now.

[WoodrowFan]

32. followed by

some college lefty will demand that there be an equal number of white and black ones in every bag, then someone will ask where the brown ones are, and the yellow and the red. Then David Duke will ask for bags of nothing but white ones, and Bob Barr will demand that the white ones all have Ronnie Rayguns picture on them. Someone in Miami will see one with the Virgin Mary's picture on it and thousands will crowd a corner market store in Little Havana to see the 'miracle.' A fundy church in Texas will proclaim the black one "satanic" and burn bags of them in a parking lot of a strip mall in suburbian Dallas. Dean and Clark supporters will blame each other for the loss of the colorful ones and some idiot will jokingly suggest a CIA connection (ahem) which some bigger idiots will take seriously. Finally, Skinner and Elad will ban all discussion of M&M's unless they remain civil and we'll be left with Robb and Magic Rat doing M&M sex polls.

[wysimdnwyg]

34. I am in awe at your prescience

:yourock:

[ronnykmarshall]

9. It's TERRAH!!

Go to code RED!!!! It's TERRAH!!!

[Lars39]

10. I have a bag right now; we don't like them.

The word "clinical" comes to mind. Even the colors on the bag are a turn-off.

[ima_sinnic]

11. hey--WTF?--I already bought a bag of B&Ws about a month ago

a supermarket here had them with the wrapper promoting a contest: find a red one within the black & whites and win a gazillion dollars. needless to say there was no red one in my pack. I ate them without looking, and guess what? they tasted just like normal colored M&Ms ;)

[TheBlob]

12. In honor of George W. Bush's world view n/t

[readmylips]

13. Little Man bushie's world came to mind...

black and white. Bush will complaint and will demand color green to be added. Green is the main color he knows.

[LuminousX]

15. Must be a Wizard of Oz tie in or something

When they bring the color back, it will be like a mini-miracle.

[northzax]

16. was this idea developed

by the geniuses who brought you New Coke?

[regnaD kciN]

25. My thoughts exactly...it's New Coke all over again!

:crazy:

[jimbo fett]

17. It turns out that half of the black ones were licked by Strom Thurmond.

[beyurslf]

19. Ewwwwwww!

[nostamj]

18. reminds me of a movie I saw this weekend "Equilibrium"

matrix-y kind of futurist thing with Christian Bale.

after a 3rd WW (nukes) the totalitarian leaders eliminate all FEELING from mankind.

it was an utterly monochromatic world and the B&W M&Ms would have been a perfect fit....

[Bertha Venation]

20. Now, honestly. How many people who eat M&Ms

will know what "chiaroscuro" means?

[mark0rama]

28. chiaroscuro...

Glad I'm not the only one who though that was a little highfalutin of them.

[beyurslf]

21. Sounds boring. I like the green and red ones.

[bobthedrummer]

22. I like the blue ones...

strange decision by M&M company.

[Dogmudgeon]

23. Just like everyday life was in the Soviet Union

How apropos to the Bush Revolution!

Wasn't there a movie a few years ago, with Reese Witherspoon in it, about a couple of k-k00l kidz who went back in time into a black-and-white world, and by having lots of sex and playing rock-n-roll music, turned the world into color?

I think it also had William Macy in it, if it's any help.

--bkl
Where have you gone, Reese Witherspoon?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you,
Woo - woo - woo!

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

31. That movie was called Pleasantville

:)

[0rganism]

24. Pleasantville, here we come

I'm getting mighty sick of this. Were the 50s so great that we have to repeat them endlessly?

[mitchum]

26. Is this some German Expressionism revival?

those wacky kids with their fads

[corporatewhore]

27. trent lott will want to put the black ones in seperate bags

[elperromagico]

29. I've been eating black and white M & Ms for several weeks.

Nothing new here.

[WoodrowFan]

30. CIA Plot?

The HQ of Mars Company is in McLean, Virginia, just a mile or two down Rt 123 from CIA Headquarters? COINCIDENCE? OR FIENDISH PLOT!

[Selwynn]

33. Why the hell wouldn't you have colored ones???

[TreasonousBastard]

35. ???

http://www.mms.com/us/bw/