Previously, people who ate M&M’s for the first time used to be amazed at the taste. But now, even the origin behind this delicious chocolate has gone quite viral on social media. One TikToker, Claire Dinhut, an American who currently lives in London, decided to explain the family drama behind this chocolate.
She went on to reveal that the name of the chocolate stood for Mars and Murrie after business collaborators and chocolate heirs Bruce Murrie and Forrest Mars Sr. For those wondering, Bruce was the son of William Murrie, the executive of Hershey, while Forrest was the son of Frank C. Mars, the founder of Mars.
In her TikTok video, which went on to garner 9000 likes, she told the story where Forrest E. Mars had a falling out with his dad, who was the original founder of Mars. She stated, “My most fun candy history fact is M&M and why it is called M&M, basically there is so much family drama here and it’s so juicy, it’s so good.
The Mars company was started before Hershey’s by this guy, and his son was really good at coming up with chocolate bars.” She then claimed that the son had been traveling across Europe where he spotted people enjoying chocolate which was covered in candy. Since he had a falling out with his dad, he didn’t want to inform him about this idea- but rather he went to their arch-rivals, Hershey’s.
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Claire mentioned, “He goes to Hershey’s and he’s like I am the son of Mars but I don’t want to give it to my father, let’s just work together. The guy who is running Hershey’s, his last name is Murrie, he was like sure but you have to work with my son. So they worked together and created these little candies.”
Since Forrest had created this candy with Murrie’s son, the pair decided to name this brand after themselves. She remarked, “They called them Mars, like the first guy’s last name, and Murrie the second guy’s last name, M&M. The reason it all popped off is they created it right before World War II, and in World War II they made this deal with the government that in every soldier’s bag were M&M’s.”
