M & M Candy

Forrest Mars, Sr., founder of the Mars Company, invented the candy in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War, he saw soldiers eating chocolate pellets with a hard shell of tempered chocolate surrounding the inside, preventing them from melting. Mars, patented it March 3, 1941. Production began in 1941 in Newark, New Jersey. When operations were started, the hard-coated chocolates were made in five colors: red, yellow, brown, green, and violet.
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