On Friday, July 9, 1993 at 10:00:58 AM UTC-4, wrote:
> >>>|> I still sort M&Ms by color before I eat them.
> >
> >>> Oh my goodness, I thought I was the only one that did this :-)
> >>>Do you have a specific order you eat them in? I eat the yellow, orange and greens
> >>>then I hit the light brown and the dark brown and save the reds for last. A bit
> >
> >>I do this too!!!! Only my order is: dark brown, light brown, red, orange, yellow
> >>and then green. My two sons have this habit too, only they don't have any particular
> >>order.
> >
> > Oh dear. i guess i'm 1) not really alone and 2) slightly more anal then i
> > thought i was. I sort them by color and then eat them based on number in
> > the pack, eating the color with the smallest number first and then going from
> > there.....
> >
> > Becki
> >
> >
> ====
> Who knew that eating M&M's could be so complicated. My system is to sort
> them according to color and start with the largest group, eat down to the
> last one, then switch to the second largest group... at the end I have one
> of each color left. Then I close my eyes and see if I can identify the
> color by taste.
> skip

Jill will probably be irritated by me commenting on 1993 material, but I also still go first for the purple, then the red, with all types of popsicles, candies, etc..