Wed, November 30, 2005
Sweets make baby Jesus cry—10:59 AM
This morning while checking the weather online, I was amused by the return of M&Ms holiday custom printing offer, in which you can choose your own (very brief, very safe) message and have it printed on your candy. I remembered being amused by this last year and – sure enough, there it is in the Buzzworthy section of today's Wayback Machine. This can't be a coincidence.
I don't suppose I can really be surprised that M&M/Mars goes crazy restricting what they'll allow me to print on my candy, but really – is anyone going to blame M&M if they find my candy offensive? Obviously I chose the message – if anyone should be sued because the candy is offensive it should be me.
Anyway, it always makes me laugh when companies offer the chance to "create your own!" but then cover their ass with a lot of restrictions. So, as usual, I tried to think of selections that would technically fall within the M&Ms guidelines, but would still probably be rejected.
