Thane writes:

<< My son complained that his bag of m&m's contained "all browns, and no blues."

I don't think blue used to be an M&M color when I was a kid.  Brown, green, orange and red, yes.  It's hard for me to remember yellows.  Maybe just a few.

Maybe the company tries to instill a sense of mystery about its identical-tasting candies by making one color "rarer" than another.

Then again, maybe blue food coloring is more expensive than the others.

--Dan