Okay, my first question is rather offbeat. If you're from America, you're American. If you're from Israel, you're Israeli. If you're from Whales, you're Welsh, and so on and so forth. So, what are you if you are from Laos? (Laos = a territory in Asia). Just wondering. No one I've asked thus far seemed to have a definite answer,

The second question is, what do you guys think about the late tan m&m, and what is your take on the blue ones? Personally, I have a strong resentment towards the blues, but thats just me.

-- Don Carlos, Colombian Druglord (Nikita707@aol.com), April 06, 2000

Answers

hmmm maybe they're laosians. just my opinion. I call people from ohio ohioans...haha. I just add an -an to the end of places and there you go. like texan.

and on the m&m thingie....ummm I like the blue ones. I eat those ones first if I'm paying attention. my favorite color ish blue soo I have an infatuation for them. hrm...the tan ones...ummm I don't really remember these at all. I'm trying to picture them in my head. I prolly wouldn't like them though since I have a thing with boring colors such as these. like brown..ick.

-- Amber (starlight@wellyeah.org), April 06, 2000.

i believe they're simply called "Laos". I remember someone on diaryland has a "Laos Pride" banner.

Arg, come on, the blue ones taste exactly the same as the rest of them. You wouldn't know the difference if you're munching them while watching tv. :p

-- ethan (ethan.z@usa.net), April 06, 2000.

I don't want this to sound like a "When I was your age.." thing, because for all I know, y'all are older than I am, but I seem to remember, that there used to be tan M&M's.

There were green, blue, yellow, orange, brown and tan.. This was before the whole red M&M's thing came back because of something about when they first came out, red M&M's caused cancer or something..I think they needed another color, so they used tan. Now that I think about it, when they brought the red M&M's back, the tan ones disappeared :)

Am I the only one that remembers this?

-- Angela (fleegle@gdi.net), April 07, 2000.

no, the tan ones were my favorite.

there was the "red scare" in, what, the late 70s?

anything dyed blue scares me.

-- irene (sikan72@yahoo.com), April 07, 2000.

I remember the tan M&M's. And blue ones cause trouble, cause people fight over them. Everyone wants them. I think people from Laos are just called, Laos. I'm trying to remember from my Vietnam war class... cause we talked about Laos. Hmm, it just isn't coming back to me, so Laos sounds right.

-- Andy (gringomano@aol.com), April 07, 2000.

Well there's that guy on the show "King of the Hill" from Laos, and they say he's Laotian (Laosian?).

As for the tan M&Ms, up until you said something, I hadn't even noticed that they'd stopped making them. But now that I think about it, I wonder when it happened. I don't particularly miss them, I guess. I think one earth toned M&M is enough. I like the blue ones.

-- Jamie (starvingartiste@yahoo.com), April 08, 2000.

OK first of all the tan M&M's were from back in the day (YAY 80's!) and the colors were tan, brown, green, red, yellow and possibly orange. I'm really not sure. Blue did not come till recently and they are actually part of a government control experiment to track and control you. I was so convinced that the tan M&Ms tasted like milk chocolate and the brown M&Ms tasted like dark chocolate. It's all a conspiracy.

As for Loas... um. I shall avoid this question to which I sooo do not have an answer.

-- Lindsey (indigo@ausi.com), April 09, 2000.

Yeah, I was gonna say something about the Laotian family from King of the Hill but someone beat me to it... hee... green m&ms are supposedly an aphrodisiac.

-- Lexy (babylexy@cuteandcuddly.com), April 13, 2000.

I remember when they sent around a little voting form in the bags of M&Ms... I voted for blue. Because really, how many BLUE foods are there? Think about it... ...

-- Amy (veracity@the-loft.demon.co.uk), April 13, 2000.