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<blockquote data-quote="tieguy" data-source="post: 634945" data-attributes="member: 1912"><p>I thought I'd start a new thread strictly for useless trivia. Trivia only . No thread Jacking.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":wink2:" title="Wink :wink2:" data-shortname=":wink2:" /></p><p></p><p>The origin of M&M's</p><p></p><p>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 of tempered chocolate surrounding the inside, preventing the candies 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 friend.R. Murrie.[2] 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.[3] When operations were started, the hard-coated chocolates were made in five different colors: brown, yellow, red, green and violet. They were served in a cardboard tube (similar to Smarties).[4][5]</p><p>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.[4]</p><p>In 1948 the cardboard packaging was replaced by the black cellophane packaging. In the same year Mars bought out Murrie's 20 percent stake.</p><p>In 1949, tan replaced violet as one of the six shell colors.[5]</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M&M's" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M&M's</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tieguy, post: 634945, member: 1912"] I thought I'd start a new thread strictly for useless trivia. Trivia only . No thread Jacking.:wink2: The origin of M&M's 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 of tempered chocolate surrounding the inside, preventing the candies 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 friend.R. Murrie.[2] 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.[3] When operations were started, the hard-coated chocolates were made in five different colors: brown, yellow, red, green and violet. They were served in a cardboard tube (similar to Smarties).[4][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.[4] In 1948 the cardboard packaging was replaced by the black cellophane packaging. In the same year Mars bought out Murrie's 20 percent stake. In 1949, tan replaced violet as one of the six shell colors.[5] [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M&M's[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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