Food Brands We Love: M&M Mars

Food Brands We Love: M&M Mars — page 1 — Chapter 1 Melts in Your Mouth Joy ripped open a corner of the small brown bag Tiny round candies spilled out She saw a rainbow of colors red orange green blue yellow and brown The candies clinked into the bowl M&M’s come in six colors

Food Brands We Love: M&M Mars — page 2 — Each one was printed with a white M A big smile spread across Joy’s face M&M’s Candies were her favorite dessert Joy liked to eat the candy slowly She enjoyed every crunchy sweet bite FUN FACT The Ms in M&M's stand for Mars and Murrie Those are the last names of the two partners who created the candy Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie

Food Brands We Love: M&M Mars — page 3 — Joy lined up the blue M&M’s in her palm and ate them one by one She thought of the popular M&M’s slogan Melts in your mouth not in your hand had been used since the 1960s That was more than 60 years ago Lots of people eat M&M’s in order of their colors

Food Brands We Love: M&M Mars — page 4 — M&M’s have been around for decades Joy’s mom and grandma both ate them as kids They even remembered when M&M’s went into space It was way back in 1981 NASA put M&M’s on the Columbia space shuttle They were the first candies in space FUN FACT More than 400 million M&M’s are produced each day About 50 percent are made in a factory in New Jersey The Columbia took its first flight on April 21 1981

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