we've all asked ourselves the question: what is the third-best flavor of m&m's candy?
is it peanut m&m's? is it crispy m&m's? do m&m's minis count? (they do not)
well, a new contender has thrown its hat in the ring, and the name of that hat is...
caramel m&m's
so everyone is familiar with classic caramel; you melt sugar, and then you press it into a cube. it's a pretty basic candy, and while good, by no means would it be considered a "rad candy." there's no nuance, no narrative, no statement made by a caramel cube. nevertheless, it is a great ingredient; it is a foundation point for nostalgia, and a brilliant note to counterpoint. however, candy caramels have undergone countless evolutions since, in order to survive the brittle winds of time. caramel cubes have been left by the wayside, a thankless victim of the unstoppable march of progress.
until mars changed the game.
they already had the perfect delivery system. "this is just like peanuts," they must have said. "this is how we saved peanuts," another of them must have replied, "as a candy, when we did that, remember?" after several bottles of celebratory champagne, one of them must have stopped and asked "but what do we write on it?" and after a few minutes of stoic silence, someone must have meekly whispered "...a lower-case 'm'?"
so yeah, that's basically what the candy is: an m&m encasing a rounded disc of classic caramel. the candy shell is about as brittle as the peanut m&m's shell, and there is a nominal layer of chocolate acting as a partition between the candy shell and the caramel disc. there is a lower-case "m" printed on one side. the interesting thing about this structure is that it can be treated as classic caramel encased in an m&m's candy, or the shell can be bit through, mixing the candy shell and caramel, activating it as a candy caramel. this, i feel, is how this candy was intended to be eaten, because it shows the most authorial intent, but we are living in a post-modern world, and authorial intent, as derrida often told us, is only our second reading of a text.
but either way, the candy works. the caramel holds up, while still doing justice to the m&m's name. and the ethos of this candy is pure enough to understand its statement one bag in. in this day and age, honesty and frankness is golden, and a candy that remembers that has gotta be pretty rad! i mean, bronze-medal rad, but it's on the podium!
i give it 88 radicals out of 100, and 4 hype out of 5, making it "super hype"
