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When I was growing up, my mother would sometimes put out a clear fish bowl filled with

M&M's. Now, I wouldn't say that I had a favorite color, but I definitely had a least favorite.

I was chatting about this recently with Willa Paskin, the host of Slate's Dakota Ring

podcast.

I probably separated them out and gave them to somebody else, you know, the tan

M&M. You set aside your hand for somebody else to eat because you didn't want them.

Yeah, I mean who wants tan food?

Turns out, I wasn't alone. Eventually, even M&M didn't want tan food.

In 1995, the company held a contest to replace the tan color with either pink, purple, or blue, and

Blue won.

The contest generated a huge amount of attention.

Willa and I both remember it.

Can I tell you my name and I both remember it. Can I tell you my M&M story?

Please, tell me your M&M story.

I was in high school or middle school.

It was like, I think there was like four of us wearing our peatodes.

It's very like the 90s.

And we bought a pack of blue

of an M's that was gonna have this new color blue we knew we were doing that and we took we

bought it and one of the girls like pours it into her hand and we knew it was

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