How do they get the little m's on M&M's?!
How do they get the little m's on M&M's?
I'm serious. I've been asking people since elementary school.
Answers:
The letter "m" on each candy is a vegetable dye printed using a process similar to offset printing. Blank M&Ms are run through the printing press on a special conveyor belt with rows of dimples on it--indentations, actually--to hold the little guys in place.
tiny surgar printer
Most likely an automated machine that stamps the M on there.
It must be a tiny stamper thingie.
special printer
A fine tipped printer.
If you want the real answer I can't help you but maybe there is very little people that write them on the m&m's with there little tiny markers... lmao
each one is stamped on gently they show this in one of thoes discovery specials i am not sure if it is a food show or the how it is made show. try the m&m website.
They have this printing thingy but they use candy stuff instead of ink.
They use a little "M" stamp.
They have a tray made out of a rubber sheet with dimples that the m&ms fit in and the pour the m&ms onto that tray and run em through a machine that stamps the m&m onto them many at a time. That special tray is what keeps em from breaking.
They're not 'M's, they're 'W's. Isn't that dumb how they put 'W's on M&Ms? You'd think they'd put 'M's.
The exact method & design of the machine that stamps the m's on M & M's are trade secrets of Mars, the company that makes M & M's.
Source: "Emperors of Chocolate" by Joel Glenn Brenner
its a stamp with white food coloring that acts like an ink, they put all the m&m through a machine that stamps them and they come out with the m
Okay, if you want the long answer, get the book called "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? And Other Imponderables". As a short answer, they print it on as part of the candy coating... I think.