I am not dead after all. I figured out how to get the x10 relay switches installed. It took a while (6+ months), but I got it done, now I am having some sort of other x10 issue, and I'll deal with that later...

Ok, so I wanted a snack so I bought a package of M&Ms, "Tear 'n Share" size. I found the contents of the pack intriguing. The package contained the following M&Ms:

(I should mention that this, to my knowledge, only applies to peanut M&Ms, whereas I have done no testing whatsoever on normal ones)

Total - 40
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Yellow - 12
Green - 11
Orange - 8
Blue - 5
Red - 3
Brown - 1

I had some M&M's a couple of weeks ago and noticed the same kind of trend. When I was younger, there were two shades of brown M&Ms in each pack, and the browns were the dominate color in each package. I would like to know exactly what happened to make 99% of the brown M&Ms go away. Now, M&Ms all taste the same, regardless of their color, so that's right out. Next, the brown M&Ms are not native uncoated specimens, so they are having to make a brown candy coating, so they are using effort and time to create brown ones, so the less work theory is right out as well. why would they put forth effort to create brown M&Ms at all, if they are only going to have an average of 1 per pack.

The only theory I can come up with on this is that people don't want to eat doodoo colored M&Ms. This is sort of ridiculous, whereas TONS of other candy is the exact same, dull, brown poop color, but I would be willing to bet they spent millions of dollars to research and discover that Americans would prefer bright happy colors, rather than brown, when it comes to M&Ms.

This only serves to further the principle that most Americans are really fucking stupid.

Here is a photo I took to document the occurrence: