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Salon
Salon
Lifestyle
Melanie McFarland

Beneath M&M's candy-coated image switch

In a future where drastic climate change has made the cultivation of cocoa trees impossible, and ragged elders make their children drool with their garbage fireside fables of the mythical treats known as M&M's, people may look back at Mars, Incorporated's 2023 banishment of its "spokescandies" after nearly 30 years of service as a strange irony.

Although our forebears didn't realize it at the time, those wise ones might say, here was an example of violently oppositional partisan forces agreeing on something.

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