June 20, 2002

1:54 PM

And The Winner Is....
Hurray! I can finally sleep at night, the new M&M color is Purple. The intro is a bit annoying, but the flash page they have to show voting stats by country is kinda nifty. mmmmmm...purpliscious
posted by Blake (25 comments total)

Geaux Tigers!
posted by ColdChef at 2:02 PM on June 20, 2002

This so makes my day. I can keep my anal M&M eating order...
posted by gloege at 2:02 PM on June 20, 2002

hrm.. that so did not come out right
posted by gloege at 2:03 PM on June 20, 2002

No, but thanks for the laugh..
posted by some chick at 2:08 PM on June 20, 2002

But at least it will come out in pretty colors.
posted by yhbc at 2:09 PM on June 20, 2002

I went from learning about purple M&Ms to never wanting to eat purple M&Ms all in the space of three posts.
posted by Shadowkeeper at 2:10 PM on June 20, 2002

what I MEANT was the order in which I eat M&Ms will not be screwed up as purple fits nicely within my color order of eating M&Ms... errr... or something like that....
posted by gloege at 2:11 PM on June 20, 2002

Purple? Hmm.. I dunno. Purple and chocolate seem like a strange combination to me. Although, now that I think about it, not appreciably more so than blue and chocolate. (Or, for that matter, any of the colors that were being voted on.)

ColdChef-- LSU fan, huh?
posted by nath at 2:13 PM on June 20, 2002

Finally, all of the colours of the rainbow are represented. (There are still orange M&M's, right? I haven't had an M in ages.)
posted by Dreama at 2:21 PM on June 20, 2002

There's blood in that there chocolate...
posted by almostcool at 2:23 PM on June 20, 2002

JK Simmons, better known as evil inmate Vern Schillinger on "Oz," and J. Jonah Jameson in "Spider-Man," is apparently the voice of the yellow M&M.

Also, you can order any color M&M you want at Colorworks.com. Plan those wedding colors now...
posted by GaelFC at 2:37 PM on June 20, 2002

ColdChef - Who dat talkin' bout eatin' dem candies, who dat?

Everyone else: Riff on old LSU football chant.
posted by rushmc at 2:58 PM on June 20, 2002

I predict M&M/Mars will now phase out the brown M&M, most likely buy holding another vote, with Red and Yellow being the other choices. Hey, they talk and have personalities now, no one will want to get rid of them!
posted by Miss Beth at 3:04 PM on June 20, 2002

First a purple Teletubby carrying a purse, next Linda Ellerbee on Nickelodeon, now purple M & Ms, in JUNE no less!

The gay agenda marches on across the globe!
posted by TuffAustin at 3:12 PM on June 20, 2002

I thought the gay scene was trying to get the Pink one voted in, in some massive subversive goof. Or did i just make that up?
posted by Ufez Jones at 3:19 PM on June 20, 2002

I think you made that up! :)
posted by gloege at 3:43 PM on June 20, 2002

Green M&M, purple M&M, they all wind up the same color, in the end.

Also, it appears that Greenland voted for some sort of navy blue M&M that no other country could vote for :^)
posted by krunk at 3:47 PM on June 20, 2002

How nice of the folks in Afghanistan to take time out to vote for teal.
posted by GaelFC at 4:03 PM on June 20, 2002

If the nation picked pink, the poor NASCAR driver with M&M sponsorship would have had to drive a pink Pontiac. If only more people knew of this cause and effect... 200 MPH daredevil or Mary Kay dealer? you decide!
posted by machaus at 4:40 PM on June 20, 2002

Now now gloege, quit your back pedaling and accept your Freudian slip.
Kinky bastard ;-)
posted by a3matrix at 5:38 PM on June 20, 2002

I heard that Pink actually received more of the popular vote, but due to the archaic intricacies of the M&M/Mars voting system, Purple was named the winner.

Don't blame me, I voted for Teal.
posted by turaho at 6:25 PM on June 20, 2002

a3matrix that is kinki grrrrrl to you thank you very much! :P
posted by gloege at 7:11 PM on June 20, 2002

Well, most of the middle east voted Pink or Teal, but Israel voted Purple. And look, Egypt voted purple too. Those infadels, support Israeli/US purple agenda, when they should clearly be supporting Teal and Pink.

I'm so sorry...
posted by benjh at 7:42 PM on June 20, 2002

There was an exact tie in Russia?? How did that happen?
posted by PrinceValium at 10:25 PM on June 20, 2002

Just as long as there are no Brown M&Msin David Lee Roth's dressing room
posted by drezdn at 1:12 AM on June 21, 2002