M&Ms

 

Do you ever just think of the oddest, most random questions that float around in your brain unanswered until you forget about them? Well yeah, that happened to me so, I decided to do something about it.

I wanted to know who invented M&Ms and when they came to be, so I did some research. It turns out that chocolate from the Spanish Civil War was the inspiration behind M&Ms.  The chocolate pellets that the soldiers were eating had a hard candy shell around them so the soldiers could carry the chocolate during the warm weather without out melting so fast. This was observed by Forrest Mars, the creator of M&Ms. They were first commercially introduced in 1941, and the people loved them.

The United States Armed Forces quickly adopted the new candy during WWII. During the war M&Ms were only sold to the military but, now everyone enjoys them.

Source: http://rivergrandrapids.com/mms-were-originally-created-to-allow-easy-transport-of-chocolate-to-the-military-fact-of-the-day/