How Do They Get the M on M&Ms? 

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"Ever wonder how each M&M is marked with that signature white 'M'?" "Not really." "Well wonder no more!"

In Australia they only have W&Ws.

I've been a printing operator for M&M Mars for about 3 years now. And his descriptions are pretty spot-on. With one exception. Our quality control guys actually really hate when unstamped M&Ms get through and will grumble pretty hard if they find them in the 100 count process. Another fun fact. The cups that hold the M&M's in place for the stamping process are fitted exactly to a specific size range and Double peanut M&Ms get jammed in them all the time because they are too big. If it gets to be too much, we have to stop one of the printers and pick them out of the cups one at a time with sterile pick tools. A very tedious process, but extremely necessary for a smooth operation sometimes.

Several years ago, M&M used to do short custom messages on their candies. I don't know if they still do that but anyways, I wanted to order some S&Ms. They would not print S&M on their candies. (nothing rude or sexual allowed) I got an idea. :) The order form tells you how many letters they can do etc, then they ask for a brief description of what you want printed. I said I wanted custom candies for my twins birthday party. "Stephanie & Meghan" That exceeded the number of characters they could print so I knew that wasn't possible. I rambled for a few confusing sentences about what would work for me and what wouldn't. In the last sentence, I said "If it's easier, you can just use their initials S&M," My S&Ms showed up in a few weeks.

I'm here for the New-gar, New-get contra-versee, con-travisty

I can now die in peace. I thought for sure they had kidnapped the Oompa Loompas and were forcing them to paint them on individually. Thanks Simon 😊

I've been a 1st pressman for going on 15 years (5 years being 2nd and 2 years as a 3rd) well done explanation of the offset printing process.

Comment section: it's nougat, not newgar Me, a person who has only heard the word in russian before: it's nooga

I've always heard pronounced as NEW-git.

I'm from the town where m&m's are made, and the whole town actually smells like chocolate when they are making the m&m's! Whenever I visit home after being away for awhile it is espcially noticable. It's also fun to look at the back of mars products and see my small towns name on it

You can even have batches of M&Ms personalized with a custom printing. A friend had done that for his twin sons' high school graduation party with their pictures, initials, etc printed on the M&Ms being served.

I assumed they had thousands of people working in a sweat shop with a mini “M” stamp to place that amazing, wonderful “M&M” logo on every piece. Knowledge is power lol

Filing under; questions you didn’t know you wanted answered.

But how do they put the S on Skittles??? My real question is though, why is it widely believed tha mice are obsessed with cheese?

Claire from the Bon Apetit test kitchen will thank you one day.

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I always assumed the M's appeared as a natural part of the process of manufacturing and that knock-off M&Ms had to paint over the M's that appear.

Actually knew someone whose grandmother was a Hershey. To bad she completely blew through her inheritance though. Not really sure how someone blows through that type of money but she somehow managed to do so. FYI Dark Chocolate Reeses are best!

They manually add them to each M&M with old fashioned lead paint.

apparently Nougat can be pronounced: "nah gut" "noo gah" or noog it"

Bravo! This video was way more interesting than expected.

Punchline 1: throwing away the Es, 3s, and Ws. Punchline 2: Because they are so hard to peel.

This interesting information. I was always under the impression that the candies where ejected from the unicorn's nostrils when it sneezed. I also didn't realize those were M's. I thought they were marks left behind from the butterfly kisses the unicorn's eye lashes would make from fluttering during a sneeze.

I cannot fully express what an enormous relief it is to know this now. I tell you, I have not been able to sleep or function, but now I know I can go on and that live is worth living. Thank you.

I can't believe it. When I was in middle school in the 70s I wrote a letter to M&M company asking how they did this. They sent a nice letter back explaining it was a trade secret. I still have the letter somewhere.

Claire from the BA Test Kitchen could have really used this video

I heard they were going to have to discontinue rhesus cups, ‘cuz the monkey died.

When my son was little we would empty the bag & I told him he could only eat the ones with M the E & W where for me

I've always pronounced it as "New-g@t" or "New-Gut", I never knew it had the silent t.

I had to slow back down to normal speed to hear "chocolate covered dates". 🤣

I reckon they have a line of trained mice with tiny shoes with the m on the sole. 🤪

Besides music,my fay job is a truck driver.I picked up a load at the Hershey M&M plant.They gave me a couple of huge sample bags and free tickets to Hersheys Park.Love that place.

The chocolate may not melt in your hend, but if it's a hot day the shell does melt in your hands. Very colorful!

You should do a video explaining how candy went from 5 cents to 25 cents while my parents were growing up and from 25 cents to over a dollar while I was growing up. Somehow I just don't think inflation will cover it.

0:18 "melts in your mouth, not in your hand" That was Treets!

You have successfully taken the mystery out of m&m’s. My life is now complete 😂. Thanks for your show.

In Canada, we have "Smarties" which are, like M&M's, candy-coated pellets of chocolatey filling but with nothing printed on them. I think they were originally sold by Rowntree but are now sold by Nestlé. In the USA, "Smarties" are little sweet/tart sugary disk-shaped tablets sold in rolls wrapped in clear plastic. In Canada those are called "Rockets" probably because, when they were introduced here, the Smarties name was already taken. Now I'm wondering if there is some completely different treat called "Rockets" outside of Canada!

I have to double check with Merriam-Webster with regards to the pronouncing of "NOUGAT".

We have Reese's in my local store in France, but very little.

And another bonus fact. Thanks to the infamous product placement in E.T. Reese's Pieces sales skyrocketed.

All this time I imagined the M&M candy was all white and someone used an M stencil and sprayed the color around it.

Glad to see the important answers to pressing questions being answered here on at least one RU-vid channel.

Thank you for answering a question that has mildly bugged me for my entire life. 🤔

In the UK, Snickers bars used to be called Marathon but changed to Snickers to tie in with world sales.

You mean a person with a airbrush and and a cardboard M doesn't spray each candy when they come off the line.

According to snickers commercials (in the U.S.) the "t" in nougat is not silent.

Simon, you're my nugar.

If Reese’s peanut butter cups were still $0.01 I would not have survived this long

10 seconds into this video and all I can think of is the scene in the Rugrats episode "Meet The Carmichaels" (the first episode with Susie) at about 9 minutes and 30 seconds when they're sneaking past the movers to try and get to the moving truck. One mover looks to the other and asks: "Hey Ed. How do you think they get them little M's on the M&Ms?" Well, we finally know! However WHY I remember that scene 2 decades later... I have no idea.

Playing a dangerous game saying nugar that many times 🤣

I always wondered but never looked it up. Cheers

do they use the same method for the E's, 3's and W's?

First ever mind-blown moment ever watching this channel: Nugat (new-gat) pronounced New-garr.

Some people say "If we can put man on the moon, we should be able to. . .blah blah blah." My take is "If we can stamp all those little "M's" on all those tiny candies. . ."

I was listening only and not watching, and spent the first half of this video trying to figure out what new-gar was.

Reese’s got a big boost when the director of “ET: The Extraterrestrial” wanted to film the scene where the kids leave a candy trail for ET. The M&M people refused the product placement, but Reese’s allowed the use of their M&M knockoff called Reese’s Pieces. Sales went through the Van Allen Belts!

So Spanish "lacasitos" (our m&m) could be thought of as brightly colored military chocolate pellets.

The questions that matter.

There’s an M&M factory in my town that’s one of the main sources of employment. Once a year there’s a town day where local businesses give out some of their product for free. The M&M factory gives away free M&Ms. The factory also hosts a big car show every year around Memorial Day.

Hahahahahaha why am I so curious to watch this episode. I need a f***ing gf. *facepalm*

BA has permeated my brain to the extent that all I could think about was poor Claire for most of this video

Today I found out you guys are now using the List25 theme song. Makes sense you and the List25 crew are friends, Simon.

Someone asked me how to pronounce nougat just last week. I said it depends on where you are in the world. Now they are totally confused. 🙃🤣🤣

I always see comments on Simon's accent. He speaks received pronunciation RP. It's legitimate.. In the North of England where we have flat vowels we call it 'proper English'.. Only in fun of course Love the videos thank you

0:54. We see what you did there Simon. Bravo. 👏

The music at the start of the video sounds like the one they use for the List25 youtube channel

Back in the mid 90's I worked with a guy in NC who had an odd thing he did. He'd eat a packet of M&Ms every day at lunch and if there was a defective M&M in the pack, he'd save it in a small pouch until he'd saved up enough that he basically had a full pack of M&Ms that were all defective. Then, he'd take his packet of defective M&Ms, mail it to the manufacturer, and they'd send him back a replacement packet. So ... yeah. The guy was odd.

Guess they never heard of Elves doing it...lol

In the early days, Hersey's got it's uniquely tangy flavor from letting the milk in their milk chocolate sour a bit. Now it's a flavor additive.

Thank you .

My friend had hrs wife's face printed on m and m's for her birthday party. Guess it's not that hard.

In Australia we didn't get Reese peanut butter cups until Costco came to Australia around 2010, when I tried them it blew my mind. I love them so much, I could easily eat 100 a day, but I try to restrain myself to half a dozen! I loved them so much I thought about moving to the USA so I could eat the big ones because we only got minis here, but after I thought about it for a bit I decided against it because I like having a body without bullet holes.

Lol,watching while eating white Chocolate m and ms 😊

Great, now I’m craving a Reese Cup.

Snickers? Why is my chocolate bar laughing at me?

Video idea, how do draft beer cans(the ones with widgets) work? and where did they come from

The original name of Snickers in the UK was Marathon until the 80's I think when there was an advertising campaign about the name change.

Answering the questions I’d never knew I wanted answered.

Snickers are the most popular trail candy, at least in the US. Snickers are like gold when you are in the middle of nowhere days from the nearest trailhead. M&M's are defintely second.

"Melts in your mouth and not in your hand" you obviously haven't been to Australia

I had no idea that Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were that old. I thought they originated in the 70s.

Am I the only person to suddenly look up and notice how long Simon's beard is? Looks good! Just caught me off guard. lol

What's behind door number 3? A new gar!!!!!!

MOUSTACHE IS LOOKING GOOOOOD!!

I was hoping you would show the M&M slide in Hershey, supposedly 1 million M&Ms go down every hour.

German Nougat is not made with almonds, it's made with hazelnuts. I grew up on the stuff, and basically 'nutella' is a spreadable version of German Nougat.

"nougar"? do you mean "nougat."

I thought I was aware of all the things Brits and Americans say differently... then I discovered NEW-gar

Nougat, the T is silent and the R is invisible

Thanks Simon

The trick is not to print M's on each candy. Instead, they print W's on each candy and then turn them upside down. So simple.

Snickers in the uk was called marathon to start with, they changed the name to snickers in the 90s

They should hire a guy to paint the M on by hand. It would create a lot of jobs.

"Yeah, we can't let you film that process.."

Offset Printing, I would have never thought that printing process. I work with offset presses. Interesting.

So, the 'M' is not the work of tiny calligraphers in a monastery?

It’s hand written with a whiteout pen

Don't be like Randy on South Park. Watch THOSE N-words ending with a hard "R"! Ha ha ha!!! In America, we pronounce Nouget as neww-gett. Not, new-gar. Just sayin'. Talking about the 2:50 mark.

Does anyone else find the really faint music in the background incredibly distracting? I heard it for the first time the other day after a 24 hour shift at the hospital and honestly thought it was an auditory hallucination and that I just needed to get some sleep. However, I'm well rested today and there is clearly some "barely there" music driving me insane as I try to listen to the video.