M&M History

How many of you like M&Ms? Im sure a lot of you do, but do you subsist how they were introduced to us? Well, let me tell you. Forrest vitiate came up with the stem of cr take in the direct famous M&Ms. Mars saw soldiers eating pieces of java covered with a hard sugary coating. The coating preventing the glass over from melting in the hot sun. In 1940, he made his first, self-sustaining move into the candy business in the United States.Somewhere in his travels, Mars had come across a candy that was essentially tiny coffee pellets surrounded by a sugar shell. He may take on seen soldiers eating them during the Spanish civil war no one seems to know for sure. What is known is that in 1940, Mars concocted his own version of candy-coated chocolate drops and took them to the Hershey Corporation. at that place he proposed an 80-20 partnership to Bruce Murrie, the son of Hershey executive William Murrie, where Bruce would be the 20-percent partner.At the time, World struggle II wa s developing, and chocolate would be rationed during this period. The Hershey Corporation, however, already had a take aim to provide chocolate for the troops. Bruce Murrie helped create this candy. M&Ms got their chassis of the abbreviation of their inventors Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie. In 1941, the first M&Ms were introduced to American GIs serving in WWII. The first wrapper that they came out in was a cardboard tube and in 1948 it became the brown bag we now know.In 1950, the first m was imprinted in black, now giving them a trademark. In 1954, chocolate peanut M&Ms are introduced and to a fault the black m on the candies was changed to white. They get their own logo melts in your mouth, not hands and animated characters made a television debut. throughout time more and more different types of M&Ms came out like the peanut butter, pretzel, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, dark chocolate peanut, coconut, mint chocolate, almonds, wild cherry, among other special lines he brough t out.