Mars - M&M's Plain Review

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memyselfandi1
Kansas City, MO

They melt in your mouth, not in your hand.

frequent snacker, fast food junkie

Pros

Bite-sized, Milk chocolate goodness, also packed in mini bags, good car treats

Cons

yeah - they can melt in your hands, can get choked on, causes tooth decay if eat too many

JUL

2009

M&Ms are much more readily available on the continent than Smarties, though, so they’re what

I’m more likely to eat here. In fact, as it happens, I have some in front of me as I write. The concept is simple – you take a round button of milk chocolate, and encase it in a crispy shell. You make another couple of dozen of these, pop them in a bag and sell them. Marvelous.

What I like:

:O: You get more chocolate than with Smarties, and it’s nicer (Galaxy style vs. whatever Nestle feel like putting in them this week). More chocolate per unit is always good in my book.

:O: They melt a lot slower than other firms’ versions (hence the tagline – they melt in your mouth, not in your hand). I eat them slowly here rather than gulping down the whole bag at once, and I much prefer it when, half an hour later as I’m finishing up, my fingers aren’t painted a lovely mix of blue and red as all to often happens with Smarties. We had a teacher at school who used Smarties for make up (blue on the eyes, red on her lips) and would then give us the used ones as prizes in quizzes. This was enough to make me want to switch to M&Ms for life.

:O: They are formed as solid pieces, not 2 halves as Smarties seem to be. This means you can bite them wherever, but they don’t automatically split down the middle exposing the chocolate and leaving you with a sticky mess.

:O: The combination of the sugary outer shell and the chocolate inside make them suitable for sucking or chewing, for when you want chocolate or sweets, for a treat or a snack, for eating sitting down or on the go. Versatility would be their middle name if they were called MvMs.

:O: You can get them in minis (in tubes, bags or cubes) or regular, plain of with fillings (crispy style, with peanut butter in some places, full peanuts everywhere, minty chocolate at promotional times). The even come themed – brown and orange ones only for Halloween for example, red and green for Christmas.

:O: Because they are individual buttons, not bars, they don’t break when they drop from a vending machine – very important here where those machines are super tall and super violent. M&Ms survive the fall. Chocolate and biscuits often don’t. :O: They sell them at my local pool – the only place near me where you can buy chocolate on a Sunday. If that’s not a reason to like them, I don’t know what is. If you don’t live near me though, you can also get them in petrol stations, supermarkets, chemists, newsagents and cafes. But you knew that already, right?

:O: They have good adverts – like the cinema one where the nasty people eat the poor man’s bag of M&Ms, but luckily 2 others have come to see the show, so he can just eat them instead.

That’s pretty much all I have to say. I’ve been eavesdropping on the “How long is too long?” discussions, and I really don’t think you need 52 million words for a chocolate op. 750 is more than enough. So there you have it: M&Ms rock. Go and buy some right now, ok? 5 Stars!!!

Last edited on Jul 06, 2009