Monday, August 24, 2009

I ♥ Me some M&M's

Yesterday I saw at the store ANOTHER new flavor of M&M's. Coconut. I have been snacking on them today.Quite yummy! So I went to the M&M site to see exactly how many flavors they do have. I didn't get very far. As soon as I logged I saw that you could go to a Live Cam and watch Yellow, as in the big yellow peanut M&M character, stranded on a desert island! So funny! Go here to watch
http://www.mms.com/us/coconut/

I have tried many M&M flavors. Most recently before the coconut was the peanut butter/strawberry ones. I liked those! I can't seem to find a list of all the different flavors they have had....but I do know I have tried plain, peanut, almond, milk, dark, dark w/peanuts, mint, peanut butter, peanut butter strawberry, coconut. I love the dark w/peanuts. According to Wikipedia there was even an M&M with a rice crispy type center. I don't remember that one at all. They are only available in Europe now. Another one I have never heard of is the carmel filled Dulce de Leche. Apparantly those were only available in the Southern Cali areas. I would have tried those for sure!
This was also Wikipedia......
In 2006, Mars offered eight new flavors of M&M's via online sales, as well as at M&M's World locations. The flavors are "All That Razz"; "Eat, Drink, & Be Cherry"; "A Day at the Peach"; "Orange-U-Glad"; "Mint Condition"; "AlmonDeeLicious"; "Nut What You Think" and "Cookie Minster". The first five have a white chocolate and milk chocolate center with a flavored shell. The two nut flavors have an almond or peanut center with white chocolate and candy shell. "Cookie Minster" has a crispy center with dark chocolate and a mint flavored shell. The company also released a "Crispy Mint" variety in Australia. Also in July 2006, Dark Chocolate M&M's reappeared in a purple package with the green female M&M as the mascot. In 2006, the company also piloted White Chocolate M&M's as a tie-in with their Pirates of the Caribbean promotion.
In 2007, M&M's introduced a new raspberry flavor chocolate candy that looks like the plain, but is fuchsia and slightly larger, called "M&M's Razzberry Chocolate Candies."
During the 2008 Valentine's Day season Mars introduced bags of all-green M&M's. This was due to common urban folklore that holds green M&M's to be an aphrodisiac.[22] They were brought back for Valentine's Day 2009 alongside the "Ms. Green Heats Up Valentine's Day" contest.
In 2008, two new varieties of the candy were introduced — "Wildly Cherry" M&M's, and as a marketing tie-in with the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, "Mint Crisp" M&M's.
M&M's also introduced another new product called "M&M's Premiums" in 2008. They come in five flavors — chocolate almond, mint chocolate, mocha, raspberry almond and triple chocolate (milk, dark, and white chocolate), which are sold in small upright cartons with a plastic bag inside. M&M's Premiums do not have a candy shell, but are coated with carnauba wax and color.
During summer of 2008, My M&M's launched 'Faces,' which allows consumers to print the faces of loved ones on M&M's chocolate candies.
In January 2009, 3 new colors were added to the list of custom printable colors: they are called the "Shimmer" collection. The colors in this collection have a pearlized finish, giving them a sparkling appearance.
In February 2009, M&M's launched "M&M’S Color Break-Up" Promotion where colors were sold in separate packs (one for each color): the packs included a code to win prizes.[23]
In Summer 2009, M&M's launched "Strawberried Peanut Butter" to tie in with the release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen In addition, M&M's launced a limited edition "Coconut M&M", as announced at the All Candy Expo 2009 in Chicago.

Oh my.....what a lot of M&M's there are!

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