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Green M&Ms as a Valentine’s Day Aphrodisiac
By admin | January 5, 2008
The secret to getting in my pants this year doesn’t involve a box of overpriced chocolates with questionable fillings. Nor does it involve cut flowers that will wither and die in less than a week. This year, my most-wanted V-Day gift is one of those new bags of green Valentine’s Day M&Ms. The bag even has a little green M&M man and the message that “green is the new color of love.” Indeed.
Anyway, it’s not the first time that green M&Ms have been suspected of having aphrodisiac powers. The practically ancient Virtual Pizza Server has been offering pretend green M&Ms as a pretend topping for over a decade.
Ahh, memories. I remember the 15-year-old me thinking she was being pretty naughty as she made one of those pizzas for a certain internet boyfriend. Of course, then he started sending me Beanie Babies and asking for bizarre samples…so that was the end of that. I guess that means they worked, though, in a strange sort of way.
And yes, I’m 100% serious about every part of the last 3 sentences. Parents, watch your kids on the Internet.
As you might expect, Snopes.com has a more thorough report on the Green M&Ms Aphrodisiac Controversy, but they really don’t answer the question of how it got started. They just say that students in the 1970s often picked out the green M&Ms to feed to their love interests. They suggest that it might have to do with the fact that the color green has been traditionally associated with healing and fertility. Yawn.
Does anyone have a better suggestion? Or do you think it’s because green M&Ms really do have aphrodisiac powers?
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