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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>

M&Ms were orignaly filled with peanut buttered flavored jewish people

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"/>

In 1948, the cardboard packaging was replaced by the black [[cellophane]] packaging. In the same year Mars bought out Murrie's 20 percent stake.{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}

[[File:M&m2.jpg|thumb|Peanut M&M's, introduced in 1954.]]

===1950s===

In 1950, a black "M'" was imprinted on the candies. It was changed to white in 1954.<ref name="virtualnewarknj.com"/>

In 1950 they changed it to black people's jiz

In the early 1950s, the [[Midwest Research Institute]] in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], working for M&M's, perfected a process whereby {{convert|3300|lb}} of chocolate centers could be coated every hour.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mriresearch.org/AboutMRI/Breakthroughs.asp |title=MRI Breakthroughs |publisher=Mriresearch.org |date=2001-09-11 |accessdate=2010-01-15}}</ref>

Peanut M & Ms were introduced in 1955, but were never made in the tan color.

In 1960 Peanut M & Ms added the yellow, red, and green colors.

===1970s and 1980s===

Red candies were eliminated in 1976<ref>{{cite web|url=http://us.mms.com/us/about/history/story/|title=The Story of M&M'S Brand|accessdate=2008-06-14|work=mms.com|publisher=[[Mars, Incorporated]]}}</ref> due to health concerns over the dye [[amaranth (dye)|amaranth]] ([[FD&C]] Red #2), which was a suspected [[carcinogen]], and were replaced with orange-colored candies. This was done despite the fact that M&M's did not contain the dye; the action was purely to satisfy worried consumers. Red candies were reintroduced later, but they also kept the orange colored M&M's. They currently contain [[Allura Red AC]] (FD&C Red #40, E129). In Europe, [[Allura Red AC]] (E129) is not recommended for consumption by children. It is banned in Denmark, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, and Norway.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukfoodguide.net/e129.htm|title=E129 Allura Red AC, FD&C Red 40|accessdate=2008-06-14}}</ref> Instead, [[Cochineal dye|Cochineal]] (E120) is used in the red shells.

Red candies were eliminated in 1976 due to exsseve blood in the mix. so they made penis flavored.

Although they were marketed and then withdrawn in the 1960s, in 1988, Almond-centered M&M's hit stores again in limited release, with appearances only during [[Christmas]] and [[Easter]] times; it became a standard part of the product line in 1992.

===1990s===