Did You Know that the Idea of M&ms Chocolates Came up in Spain? Now Mars, Its Owner, Is Betting on Europe

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Forrest Mars had to come to Spain in the middle of the Civil War to see how the soldiers ate chocolate covered with sugar that was not melted between their fingers to launch their famous M&M’s in the United States, in 1941. First they sold themselves to the army and then took them to the general market. Today these sweets are one of the emblems of the American family company born in Tacoma (Washington) in 1911. And more famous than the centennia…