75 Years & Counting: My love for M&Ms #MFRWorg #chocolatecandy #RssosSisters #romantic comedy

Seventy-five years and Counting

Each Sunday after lunch, my family and I visited my grandparents. Our first stop was to my dad’s parent’s house, an old prairie-styled home on a street lined with others similar to it. While my parents chatted with my grandparents, my sisters and I climbed the trees in the parkway, jumped off the front porch railing, and sang songs. As we departed, my grandmother gave each of us a quarter and a package of M&Ms, sometimes plain, sometimes peanut.

And thus began my love for the coated chocolate candies with peanuts inside.

This year, M&Ms celebrates 75 years. Here are some tidbits:

1. Forrest Mars created his recipe during the Spanish Civil War, and patented in 1941.

2. M&Ms were first packaged in cardboard tubes

3. In 1954, peanut M&Ms were introduced

4. In 1954, the slogan "The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand.”

For more information, go to: Inventors M&M

When my romantic comedy mystery, Temporarily Employed, launched a friend gave me this:

Why? Because my heroine loves M&Ms. Here’s an excerpt: about her chocolate obsession:

However, lately, my mind had been occupied with other significant matters, items like the necessities of life: Finding employment, paying overdue bills, and, more importantly, procuring much-coveted peanut M&Ms. Now, I was sure to get a stupid-stupid-stupid citation and missing taillights and bumper to add to the equation. At the rate things were headed, I’d have to ditch the chocolate and move in with Mom and Dad. My body shuddered.

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So Happy Birthday, M&Ms! Long may you reign and satisfy my chocolate needs.

What’s your favorite variety?