{"id":7557,"date":"2012-11-27T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=7557"},"modified":"2012-11-27T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T21:58:00","slug":"mms-mint-chocolate-collect-all-six-packs-new-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=7557","title":{"rendered":"M&M’s Mint Chocolate – Collect all Six Packs – New for 2012!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last month I documented the assortment of six different Candy Corn M&M’s packs <\/a>released for Halloween.\u00a0 Today I’m going to share the six different limited edition Mint Chocolate M&M’s packs released for Christmas 2012.<\/p>\n

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it here again — I love that M&M’s has started producing these standard-sized holiday-themed M&M’s packs in sets.\u00a0 They’re perfect for collecting and give me one more thing to look forward to with each candy holiday.<\/p>\n

These packs all feature the Mint M&M spokescandy, Green.\u00a0 Let’s check them out:<\/p>\n

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Mars – M&M’s Mint Chocolate holiday packs 2012 – A<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mars – M&M’s Mint Chocolate holiday packs 2012 – B<\/p><\/div>\n

Just as with the Candy Corn packs, these Mint packs feature two different pack backs:<\/p>\n

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Mars – M&M’s Mint Chocolate holiday packs 2012 – backs<\/p><\/div>\n

Mint chocolate M&M’s are not an entirely new thing, though this is the first time they’ve been presented in packages like these.\u00a0 Mint M&M’s have traditionally been offered as a limited release available around the holidays, but I’ve found evidence that they were also test-marketed as an all-year-round product back in the 1990’s.\u00a0 I’d love to find a pack wrapper for these 1990’s Mint M&M’s, but for now I’m happy to have a display box in my collection:<\/p>\n

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M&M-Mars – M&M’s Mint – display box – 1990’s possibly 1992.<\/p><\/div>\n

That display box had a date on it, though it was partially obscurred.\u00a0 For some reason it looked like the year was blacked out with a marker.\u00a0 From the best I could make out, the year originally read as 1992.\u00a0 Here’s a close-up:<\/p>\n

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1990’s Mint M&M’s display box “sell by” date<\/p><\/div>\n

And that’s everything for today’s coverage of these neat new Mint M&M’s packages and their ancestors.<\/p>\n

I’ll be back with another Wacky Wednesdays post tomorrow followed by a dive into a groovy vintage topic on Thursday.<\/p>\n

See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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