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Carl Succumbs to Shiny Candy
July 26, 2009
I want to say I've written about this before - not succumbing to shiny candy, although succumbing is a great word - but the customizable M&Ms you can get now. I have seen ads almost everywhere for them: on web sites, on Facebook, in magazines, on stands at the grocery store. Little customizable M&Ms are twittering tweeting me, they hide in my bushes where no one can see them except me, and they haunt my dreams. They hurl insults at me when I go to local NASCAR events*. So finally, I broke down and went to the website and now my bank account is drained but I HAVE CUSTOM CHOCOLATE COMING BABY! Sorry. It's hard not to get excited about custom chocolate.
By now you either want to order custom chocolate yourself, or you are wondering what in the world I am talking about. Or, you are seeing little customizable M&Ms hiding in your bushes as well and want to know what I did to get rid of mine. Well all three questions are easily answered at MyMMS.com. Which is a very unfortunate URL, because it sounds like MMS as in Multimedia Messaging Service. Although, if one thinks about it, one will quickly realize that putting messages on chocolate could actually be a multimedia messaging service.
Basically the website allows you to set a custom message (or even a photo!) and pick your color and get printed M&Ms delivered right to your door for fourteen thousand dollars. (A pound.) Well, it's not that expensive but it's a tough call between custom M&Ms and uncustom Godiva or Ghirardelli or Belgian chocolate. I confess that I went the cheap inexpensive route and did the message and not the photo. At least, I am assuming that the photo M&Ms are eighteen thousand dollars. (A pound.) I only got two lines of text, eight characters each. Uncustom chocolate prize for the first person who guesses what I put on there. (No chocolate for Alert Guessing Wives.) I also didn't pick any of the new shiny colors because I thought that was gauche tacky.
I have to say while the whole thing was really cool, I found myself wanting to use more letters. So I'm waiting for Mars to come out with the Ginormous M™, which would be a customizable M&M that is actually 3' in diameter. That way I can get all of my promotional copy on there. I figure it would only cost about twenty-four thousand dollars.
(A pound.)
*Okay, I made that up.
**Okay there aren't two asterisks above, but I wanted to say that if you really hear customizable little M&Ms people in your bushes, call me immediately and whatever you do, DO NOT go outside.
