Wednesday, 31 October 2012

The History of America's Favorite Chocolate Candies

M&M Candies are a favorite of many and their slogan, "Melts in your mouth, not in your hands" still holds true some 80 years after Forrest Mars, Sr., founder of the Mars Company saw soldiers in the Spanish Civil War eating chocolate pellets covered with a shell of tempered chocolate. With some work to create what he saw, Mars received a patent for M&Ms on March 3, 1941 and production began at a factory in Newark, New Jersey.







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