Immortalized in chocolate!

On February 12, 2007, I turned myself into an M&M!

For Christmas I received personalized M&Ms complete with my name and a wonderful memory of WWs.

Here is the story!

I had a part time job in a news stand/bookstore when I was 16. I even had to take a lie detector test but that is another story! On the counter next to the register was a candy display. Now there are two sides to this counter. One side for the customers IN FRONT of the counter. We typically filled the display from the back. If not careful some of the candy would be upside down from the customers point of view. I would make sure when filling the candy that all the packages were facing the right way to read. Which leads us to WWs.

Imagine if you will an upside down MM is a WW. Hence the monogrammed MMs having my name one side of some and WWs on the other side of others!

As for the immortalized. . .it is only in this picture that they live on!

Sign of the apocalypse?

Recently, every pack of peanut M&Ms I get has at least three or four PEANUT-less candies! In the past there has been the occassional missing peanut, odd, but not enough to cause concern. Well, now I am concerned! Dominicks had them on sale, buy 3 get 3 free, so I did. And each bag had more than a few of these peanut orphans, no offense to orphans intended. I have noticed this before too when I have just bought a single pack. And it is not just here in the Chicagoland area. I noticed this over the summer in Syracuse, NY!

The candies look as thought there is a peanut inside, but when you bite it, nope, all chocolate. Is M&M trying to save some money? Is someone asleep at the peanut x-ray quality control station at M&M?