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Posted: **Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:03 am**

but there aren't any blue m&ms

: so it must be smarties then. [q.v.]

Posted: **Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:07 am**

There are blue M&M's!

Posted: **Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:32 am**

professor yaffle wrote: "nyah nyah nyah, fiddlesticks and flapdoodle. you can't make chocolate biscuits from breadcrumbs and butterbeans. nyah nyah nyah."
"This is getting very silly. Too silly"

Posted: **Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:33 am**

Yes, well.

Posted: **Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:11 pm**

LOL, this ridiculous argument is still going on here at work, even though I presented hard evidence that M&M's is the answer - the woman thought I made the video up?!?!?!?

ROFLMFAO!!!!

Posted: **Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:41 pm**

how do i put a pic on here ????? cos i can prove there is blue m&m's

surely this converation has come to a conclusion its %100000000000 m&m's

and anyone that still thinks its something else is just deluded lol

Posted: **Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:45 pm**

how to lose every ounce of dignity usa can muster:

dress as an apocryphal confection:

Posted: **Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:18 pm**

Is that man real?

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:30 am**

Ok upon further research the corect slogans are
1 M&Ms-Melt in your mouth not in your hand
2 Maltesers-The lighter way to enjoy chocolate
3 Smartie-Only Smarties have the answer/Do you eat the red one last?
4 Minstrels-Melt in your mouth not in your hand

Before you think that's a mistake 1 and 4 are the same read my next post.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:17 am**

In the United Kingdom and Germany Peanut M&M's were known as Treets until 1990. Additionally, Toffee Treets were also available for some time. The chocolate versions were not introduced until the brand became M&M's. This was partly to do with the market dominance of the similar candy Nestlé Smarties which made competing under anything but a very high profile brand difficult, with the added risk of reducing sales of the existing Treets brand. Though Treets used the same "melt in your mouth not in your hand" slogan in the UK in the 1970s, this was transferred to Minstrels when the Treets brand was dropped.
So there you go the corrrect answer is both M&Ms and Minstrels. Hopefully this brings the matter to a close and removes the confusion.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:47 pm**

minstrels were around for some time before m&m's appeared, the slogan was first used in england for Minstrels, i can see the dopey bird now, holding her hand out flat with a few minstrels sitting on it, then she smoothed her dress to show there were no chocolate marks on her hand. its sad, but i remember adverts really well! if it's also been used for m&m's then that just shows how forward thinking and innovative the british advertising industry really is.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:51 pm**

do you remeber the beamish ad of about 12/15 years ago which was all line drawing? the barman says "what will be your pleasure tonight Joseph" last line was "as he sipped at his beamish the city warmed around him" that was the best advert ever but anyone i've mentioned it to just gazes blankly.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:57 pm**

Gives me an idea....

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:21 pm**

Don't think it's a reflection on the advertising industry as such.More the fact that both brands are produced by the same company-Mars.

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