Payback

Larkin has declared that the only m&ms she likes are the dark brown ones. The other ones taste funny. Those of you who know my personal history with m&ms are presumably already amused. For the rest of you, here is the stuff of Hamilton Lore:

When I was a wee bairn (5? Help me out here, parents) I claimed I could taste the difference between different colored m&ms. Jim, as the supportive parent he has always been, demanded a scientific trial so he could prove me wrong. Out came the blindfold and what he figured was a statistical sample of m&ms. The results? I got every single one right. Okay, actually I think I couldn't tell the difference between light brown and dark brown (I'm aging myself by remembering the light brown ones), but it sounds better to claim a perfect record. After simmering down from the heights of disbelief, Jim and Mary figured I could probably actually taste the different dyes used in the candy coating.

Granted, the m&ms we have now are the hippie version and it's not so hard for me to believe that whatever vegetable/fruit extracts they use in the dye are slightly more flavorific than red #357 and blue #123 or whatever it is in name brand candy these days. So far, no one has been blindfolded in the name of science (well, not recently anyway), but I think I might see if Larkin will agree to the experiment.

In the meantime, I guess Emile will have a lot of yellow, orange and red m&ms as work snacks in the trailer.