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I don't recall a brown M&M, but then I don't really eat many of them anyway so can't say for sure.

But hang on... didn't some rockstar (Ozzy?!) have a rider requesting M&M's "with the brown ones removed"? Or was that a different colour?

Forrest Mars, Sr., founder of the Mars Company, got the idea for the confection in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War when he saw soldiers eating chocolate pellets with a hard shell surrounding the inside, preventing them from melting. Mars received a patent for his own process on March 3, 1941. Production began in 1941 in a factory located at 285 Badger Avenue in Clinton Hill, Newark, New Jersey. One M was for Forrest E. Mars Sr., and the other M was for Bruce Murrie, son of long-term Hershey president William F.R. Murrie.[3] Murrie had 20 percent interest in the product. The arrangement allowed the candies to be made with Hershey chocolate which had control of the rationed chocolate.[4] When operations were started, the hard-coated chocolates were made in seven different colors: Blue, Brown, Yellow, Orange, Red, Green and Violet. They were served in a cardboard tube (similar to Smarties).[5]

The practicality of the candies during World War II caused an increase in production and its factory moved to bigger quarters at 200 North 12th Street in Newark, New Jersey where they remained until 1958 when it moved to a bigger factory at Hackettstown, New Jersey. During the War the candies were exclusively sold to the military.[5]

In 1948 the cardboard packaging was replaced by the black cellophane packaging. In the same year Mars bought out Murrie's 20 percent stake

:D Cheers Mr. R. Still, doesn't explain their mystical reappearance since my previous M&M experience...

I believe that your previous M&M experience was not cannon in the M&M universe i can assure you that brown ones have always been in the packets and in great amount too, IMO they are the best M&Ms of the bunch its like they are saying "look man im not gonna lie to you, i am made of chocolate" truly a breath of fresh air in this hipocritical society and they reminds us that we are all the same on the inside.

Having sprots threads suck so much, but lets start one about M&Ms.

You didn't know there were brown M&M's? Seriously?

Brown M&M's have been around for as long as I can remember.

Yep. Even the peanut ones.

It's more entertaining than your rubbish sprots threads.

Hey Zad, take you fingers out of your ass.