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==History==

===1940s===

[[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.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} 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 one for William F. R. Murrie, President of Hershey's Chocolate .<ref>[http://www.hersheyarchives.org/Pub/UserMedia/MURRIE.pdf WILLIAM F. R. MURRIE, PRESIDENT OF THE HERSHEY CHOCOLATE] - hersheyarchives.com - Retrieved August 26 , 2008{{Dead link|date=January 2010}}</ref> Murrie had 20 percent interest in the product. The arrangement allowed the candies to be made with Hershey chocolate which had control of the [[ration]]ed chocolate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/mars.html |title=Inventor of the Week: Archive |publisher=Web.mit.edu |date= |accessdate=2010-01-15}}</ref> When operations were started, the hard-coated chocolates were made in five colors: red, yellow, brown, green, and violet. They were served in a cardboard tube (similar to [[Smarties]]).<ref name="virtualnewarknj.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.virtualnewarknj.com/memories/newark/bodianmm.htm |title=Looking Back at Newark Origins of World-Famous M&M Chocolates - virtualnewarknj.com - Retrieved August 28, 2008 |publisher=virtualnewarknj.com |date=1981-04-12 |accessdate=2010-01-15}}</ref><ref name="cnn0620">{{cite news|title=M&M lovers pick purple|url=http://money.cnn.com/2002/06/20/news/companies/mandms/|work=[[CNNMoney.com]]|publisher=[[Time Warner]]|date=2002-06-20|accessdate=2008-06-14 }}</ref>.you fucked my mom bitches.

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.<ref name="virtualnewarknj.com"/>