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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.
KEVLAR1911A1 G21 oh that’s cool I work on a Harris M1000 which is a cover press and we have 4 colors and a extra unit on either side for special inks and a uv-er down after the chills
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
It drives me crazy too. If I'm watching on my phone I never hear it, but on my PC that super-faint music sounds like someone in another room of my house. Creeped me out before I figured out it was coming from the TIFO video. I wish it was either gone or about 3x louder.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
Here's another bonus fact, the bonus facts on this view take up more time than answering the question about M&Ms, presumably to pad out the runtime so as to appease the RUclips algorithm.
it's called "pad printing" i used to do it for an ad specialty company in Seattle. it's basically a soft rubber-ish pad than you first stamp on the plate to transfer the image to the pad and then the pad is pressed down on the substrate and leaves the image. There's a clamp to hold the thing in place and 2 levers (so you can do a 2-color print) each with it''s own pad than you raise, lower and swivel between the plate and the thing you're printing on. Super low tech, really. Though I pad printed many things, the one I left the biggest impression on me (c wat i dud thur?) was printing the Microsoft logo and the word "Sidewalk" on 140,000 pieces of sidewalk chalk for some Bing feature called "Microsoft Sidewalk" that lasted about a month at the end of the 90's
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.
I’ve never heard it pronounced anything but NOO-gitt, I had to stop the video and look at my partner to confirm her surprise as well. Hahha. I love humans.
I had a steady job as a quality control at the M&M's factory in the summer and fall of 85. The let me go after they realized that I was throwing out all the W's...
M&M’s, the. Candy with a short shelf life and prone to temperature damage causing it to ooze a greasy coating and bitter taste. Yep, I can think of a lot better candies.
Has it ever occurred where a local law enforcement officer has never heard of a federal organisation such as NCIS while on the job? Do local police have to memorize all the federal agencies that exist?
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In Australia they only have W&Ws.
I_THE_ME Lol 😂
We get a mixture of M, W, E & 3.
And all this time I thought that it said *UU.* 🤔
@@SteveFrenchWoodNStuff We're not talking about the eye test.
Ba DUM... TSH!
"Ever wonder how each M&M is marked with that signature white 'M'?"
"Not really."
"Well wonder no more!"
Still clicked on the video, did ya
@@genau14zeichen Pass up a chance to listen to Simon's delightful dulcet declaiming? Never.
@@genau14zeichen he put the question in the title now I wonder why
"M"? all this time I thought it was a "W"--WTF!!?!!?!!
@@utubewatcher806 no, see, you gotta turn them upside down.... then you get the M!
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.
But how do they get the candy coating on there smoothly lol
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.
If you go to an M&M store like the one in London or New York City, you can make your own custom M&Ms.
@@terryhinch STFU
that's what I would print on mine
That's an awesome story lol
My name is Meghan and I approve this message.
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.
KEVLAR1911A1 G21 it was fairly good, I work on a printing press to lul
But just to confuse things, that classic illustration of a print shop was non-offset (direct) relief printing aka letterpress.
Kevin Martin true I noticed that also lol
We do lithograph 4 color process with the ability to coat and 1 unit for PMS colors. And yes the press did seem out of place for the explanation.
KEVLAR1911A1 G21 oh that’s cool I work on a Harris M1000 which is a cover press and we have 4 colors and a extra unit on either side for special inks and a uv-er down after the chills
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'm here for the New-gar, New-get contra-versee, con-travisty
Ooh... well you're in the right place!☺😝
You changed the word. The British pronunciation would be con-trahv-ess-ee. No extra “t” at the end
@James Walker well it is a french word, and the french are allergic to pronouncing the final letter of words so, yeah very british...
Comment section: it's nougat, not newgar
Me, a person who has only heard the word in russian before: it's nooga
careful how you enunciate that when deep in WashDC, Chicago, Baltimore, Compton or Harlem--just sayin'....
Has the g gotten a ggggg sound? (Like when trying to push out flim from your throat)
If it does, we pronounce it the same in the netherlands “noga”
It is pronounced without the T in original French.
If he had not added the R most pedantic people wouldn't have commented.
@@LoavesofBread I didn't hear the R. Might be a native speaker thing
It's noo-gar in the UK.
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
Emily Baker which plant?
@@CliffRoth Hackettstown!
I've always heard pronounced as NEW-git.
So does everyone else who says it properly (in the U.S., at least).
Only an American has the ability to butcher his native language that much
its NOO-gət with the schwa somewhere between a soft e and aw as in awkward
It's nu (as in nu-metal or some shit)
and gat (as in "oh gaaawd", with a T in the end)
@@TechWechSech love how the english gatekeep language
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
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 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.
Filing under; questions you didn’t know you wanted answered.
Bravo! This video was way more interesting than expected.
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!
Just a lot of hookers.
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.
Easliy Displeased in the 70s they had only Jersey factory and it did not give tours.
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?
I’ve often wondered that myself, since mice in the wild are mainly grain eaters.
Because cheese is an easy (therefor common) bait to put on a trap. It lasts a long time without becoming a rancid mess.
@@SteveFrenchWoodNStuff that makes sense actually. Kind of a dark joke though, considering the stereotype stems from how they were baited and killed
Diamond Appendix- My question for you: In Russia is the Skittle's S backwards ?
@@christelheadington1136 now you're getting me to think about this little detail and I honestly don't know
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.
Punchline 1: throwing away the Es, 3s, and Ws.
Punchline 2: Because they are so hard to peel.
Claire Saffitz has entered the chat
First thing I thought of when I saw this video.
apparently Nougat can be pronounced:
"nah gut"
"noo gah"
or
noog it"
Nug it (glesweegian)
Or in German: "new-gaht." ;)
I prefer "no, u git"
The ads in the US say New-gut with the schwa-ey "u"
They manually add them to each M&M with old fashioned lead paint.
Mmm lead
The chocolate may not melt in your hend, but if it's a hot day the shell does melt in your hands. Very colorful!
Claire from the Bon Apetit test kitchen will thank you one day.
😀... I love that chick!
I was listening only and not watching, and spent the first half of this video trying to figure out what new-gar was.
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
You are a genius parent
XD
Who got the 3s?
@@chadfalardeau9162 santa
Chad Falardeau mom lol
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.
This is clearly the true answer.
Glad to see the important answers to pressing questions being answered here on at least one RUclips channel.
You have successfully taken the mystery out of m&m’s. My life is now complete 😂. Thanks for your show.
do they use the same method for the E's, 3's and W's?
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!
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.
And another bonus fact. Thanks to the infamous product placement in E.T. Reese's Pieces sales skyrocketed.
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!
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!
And Minstrels. (And M&Ms)
Claire from the BA Test Kitchen could have really used this video
Smilys Prid *mike's mic voice* i would die for claire from the bon appetit test kitchen
All this time I imagined the M&M candy was all white and someone used an M stencil and sprayed the color around it.
I reckon they have a line of trained mice with tiny shoes with the m on the sole.
🤪
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.
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.
It drives me crazy too. If I'm watching on my phone I never hear it, but on my PC that super-faint music sounds like someone in another room of my house. Creeped me out before I figured out it was coming from the TIFO video. I wish it was either gone or about 3x louder.
In the UK, Snickers bars used to be called Marathon but changed to Snickers to tie in with world sales.
0:54. We see what you did there Simon. Bravo. 👏
Why this has been sitting in my Watch Later for a full 11 months before today I don't know.
I've been... busy? 🤷♂️
According to snickers commercials (in the U.S.) the "t" in nougat is not silent.
And it definitely doesn't sound like an "R".
Don’t believe everything you see on tv.
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.
I heard they were going to have to discontinue rhesus cups, ‘cuz the monkey died.
Rhesus cups 😂
Hahahahahaha why am I so curious to watch this episode.
I need a f***ing gf.
*facepalm*
saul forrest if you don’t have a gf. You certainly do need one to annoy the shit out of you and take your mind off the real problems in life.
@@patrickperry6945 Are you implying that the printing of the M on M&M's is one of life's real problems? 😂
Jackson Percy No. I was just replying to Saul’s dilemma.
Thank you .
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. . ."
If Reese’s peanut butter cups were still $0.01 I would not have survived this long
I have to double check with Merriam-Webster with regards to the pronouncing of "NOUGAT".
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
Playing a dangerous game saying nugar that many times 🤣
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.
We have Reese's in my local store in France, but very little.
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.
Answering the questions I’d never knew I wanted answered.
BA has permeated my brain to the extent that all I could think about was poor Claire for most of this video
Thank you for answering a question that has mildly bugged me for my entire life. 🤔
Today I found out you guys are now using the List25 theme song. Makes sense you and the List25 crew are friends, Simon.
You mean a person with a airbrush and and a cardboard M doesn't spray each candy when they come off the line.
I'm sure I once read on a 'Ripleys believe it or not', that they were each handwritten by a one-armed North Korean.
Snickers? Why is my chocolate bar laughing at me?
NOO GIT!
So Spanish "lacasitos" (our m&m) could be thought of as brightly colored military chocolate pellets.
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.
That explains the slight vomit taste complained about by most who didn't grow up with Hershey's.
Arin was explaining that on a recent episode of Game Grumps. He called it "proto-cheese chocolate"
Wait... Hershey has a tangy flavor?
Lol,watching while eating white Chocolate m and ms 😊
The questions that matter.
I always wondered but never looked it up. Cheers
Here's another bonus fact, the bonus facts on this view take up more time than answering the question about M&Ms, presumably to pad out the runtime so as to appease the RUclips algorithm.
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
it's called "pad printing" i used to do it for an ad specialty company in Seattle. it's basically a soft rubber-ish pad than you first stamp on the plate to transfer the image to the pad and then the pad is pressed down on the substrate and leaves the image. There's a clamp to hold the thing in place and 2 levers (so you can do a 2-color print) each with it''s own pad than you raise, lower and swivel between the plate and the thing you're printing on. Super low tech, really. Though I pad printed many things, the one I left the biggest impression on me (c wat i dud thur?) was printing the Microsoft logo and the word "Sidewalk" on 140,000 pieces of sidewalk chalk for some Bing feature called "Microsoft Sidewalk" that lasted about a month at the end of the 90's
What's a 'noogar'?
A gar is a type of fish. A new gar is one that's just hatched.
Offset Printing, I would have never thought that printing process. I work with offset presses. Interesting.
Guess they never heard of Elves doing it...lol
Thanks Simon
Great, now I’m craving a Reese Cup.
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.
"Yeah, we can't let you film that process.."
It’s hand written with a whiteout pen
Video idea, how do draft beer cans(the ones with widgets) work? and where did they come from
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.
MOUSTACHE IS LOOKING GOOOOOD!!
The music at the start of the video sounds like the one they use for the List25 youtube channel
I’ve never heard it pronounced anything but NOO-gitt, I had to stop the video and look at my partner to confirm her surprise as well. Hahha. I love humans.
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.
what? no black nugars? Only white and brown nugars?
What kind of ink is used to stamp each m&m
I had a steady job as a quality control at the M&M's factory in the summer and fall of 85. The let me go after they realized that I was throwing out all the W's...
Also German Nugat is usually called gianduja in other places
I was hoping you would show the M&M slide in Hershey, supposedly 1 million M&Ms go down every hour.
M&M’s, the. Candy with a short shelf life and prone to temperature damage causing it to ooze a greasy coating and bitter taste. Yep, I can think of a lot better candies.
Has it ever occurred where a local law enforcement officer has never heard of a federal organisation such as NCIS while on the job?
Do local police have to memorize all the federal agencies that exist?
Reese’s cups are so fucking good. Chocolate and peanut butter were made for each other.
"Melts in your mouth and not in your hand" you obviously haven't been to Australia
Lol absolutely, my food-colouring-smeared hands would beg to differ :)
Or Alabama lol
I have an extremely rare m&m where the "m" is upside-down!
First ever mind-blown moment ever watching this channel: Nugat (new-gat) pronounced New-garr.
My life is a lie.