{"id":4194,"date":"2011-01-14T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T20:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4194"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:19:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:19:27","slug":"the-origin-of-mms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/the-origin-of-mms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of M&#038;Ms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WhereMandMsComeFrom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4195\" title=\"WhereMandMsComeFrom\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WhereMandMsComeFrom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WhereMandMsComeFrom.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WhereMandMsComeFrom-340x193.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"What the M's stand for in M&amp;Ms\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/what-the-ms-stand-for-in-mms\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn What the M&#8217;s in M&amp;Ms Stand For<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cM&amp;M\u201d was modeled after a candy Forrest Mars, Sr. encountered while in Spain during the 1930s.\u00a0 During the Spanish civil war there, he observed soldiers eating chocolate pellets with a hard shell of tempered chocolate.\u00a0 This prevented the candies from melting, which was essential when included in soldiers rations as they were.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn What the M&#8217;s in M&amp;Ms Stand For Text Version The \u201cM&amp;M\u201d was modeled after a candy Forrest Mars, Sr. encountered while in Spain during the 1930s.\u00a0 During the Spanish civil war there, he observed soldiers eating chocolate pellets with a hard shell of tempered chocolate.\u00a0 This prevented the candies from melting, which [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1132,1151,647],"class_list":["post-4194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-candy-facts","tag-etymology-mms","tag-food-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4197,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions\/4197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}