Members of the rock band Van Halen used to insist that all the brown M&Ms be removed from the jar of candy they wanted in their dressing room. They had nothing against brown M&Ms. They just wanted to make some poor soul go through all that candy with tweezers, because being annoying is pretty much what Van Halen did, day in and day out.
That's not going to be an option for anyone soon, because the makers of M&Ms have promised to eliminate artificial dyes from their candy pellets, but they are having trouble getting rid of the blues and the browns. The candymen told the Wall Street Journal, it's turning out to be "expensive" and "difficult."
Two more words that describe Van Halen, if I may say so...
Mars, the people who make M&Ms, were able to make red, orange, and yellow dyes out of natural ingredients like turmeric and beets. (How tasty!) And they came up with a real natural green, but nothing works to make a blue candy coating. They even tried spirulina - a blue-green algae - as a replacement for blue, but it turned out to be a giant hassle.
And didn't we just go through a whole thing about green algae? And would you want it on your candy???
Getting M&Ms coated in brown uses a lot of blue dye, surprise to hear, so there will be no more brown or blue M&Ms soon.
When the new dye-free M&Ms come out on your grocery shelves, there will only be red, yellow, orange, and green.
Van Halen tribute bands will have to find something else about which to be peculiar.
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