menu craigslist CL section best of craigslist > title Survival Of The Fittest Originally Posted: 2007-08-30 2:03pm ◀ prev ▲ next ▶ print Survival Of The Fittest Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms;, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M; duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the "loser," and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round. I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms; are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms; as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world. Occasionally I will get a muta...