M&M's has tons of different fillings. Some of them include Milk, Dark, and White Chocolate, Crispy Rice, Mint Chocolate, Peanuts, Almond, Orange Chocolate, Coconut, Pretzel, Wild Cherry, and Peanut Butter. In 1954, peanut M&M's were created, but they never got produced in the tan color. Yellow, Red, and Green got added to Peanut M&M's in 1960. In 1988, they started producing Almond M&M's again but then Mars started selling them only during Christmas and Easter time. It has been like this ever since. In 1990 Peanut Butter M&M's hit stores. Crispy M&M's came out in 1999 but they ceased to exist in 2005 even though that flavor made the most money for Mars. In 2009 , they started producing "Strawberried Peanut Butter " M&M's but only for a limited time. That same year they made Coconut flavored M&M's. In April 2010, Mars created Pretzel M&M's.
When M&M's were first introduced, they were produced in 5 different colors; Red, Yellow, Brown, Green, and Violet. A black M was printed on each M&M in 1950. It became a white M in 1954. Red M&M's stopped selling in 1976 because people worried about the die in them. The color was changed to orange. The Red ones came back later, but the orange ones still remained. In 1995, Mars let people vote on which new M&M's color they wanted. The choices were blue, pink, and purple. Blue won and replaced tan.
In 1980 Australia, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, The United Kingdom, and The United States all produced M&M's. M&M's are one of NASCAR's most popular sponsors. Kyle Busch currently drives their car. M&M's were first rocketed into space in1982 and been apart of all missions since. Their are five different M&M's spokescandies. There is Red for Milk Chocolate, Yellow for Peanut, Green for Peanut Butter, Mint, and Dark Chocolate, Blue for Almond, and Orange for Crispy Rice. In 1998 M&M's got crowned "The Official Candy of the New Millennium " because MM is the roman numeral for 2000.
Mars Inc is popular because they made M&M's, Skittle's, Starburst, Snicker's Bar, and The Mars Bar. They have also made Minstrels, Revels, and Treets, but these are not so popular. William Murrie, President of Hershey's Chocolate, got 20% of all the earnings of M&M's because he allowed them to be made with Hershey's Chocolate. One of the M's on M&M's stood for Forrest Mars and the other for William Murrie. Just imagine, if Forrest Mars hadn't spotted those soldiers with the little chocolates then we wouldn't have M&M's! What would are world be like without M&M's ?!
