Where have Halloween M&M's gone?

In seasons past I used to run out and buy
bags of colorful Halloween M&M's called
the "Cool Ghouls Mix".

The colors would POP with Halloween goodness

and enhance my Halloween candy bowls...

 Black, Orange, Slime Green, and Creature Purple,

is there anything better than these colors for Halloween?

Apparently Mars & Murrie thought so...

Today, and for the past two years, M&M's only features

"Fall" colors for the Halloween season called
"Harvest Blend"

Great for Thanksgiving I'll admit,

unfortunately very bland and a little off for

Halloween.

The muted fall colors bring down all my bright

and vivid candy servers.  I have avoided
buying the harvest M&M's during Halloween
the past two years, hoping they would
bring back the Halloween colors.

I suppose my one man boycott

didn't put much of a dent in their profits,

and I suppose many really like the

leaf like color scheme.

And now M&M's offers up
"White Chocolate Candy Corn'',

which is kind of like Halloween....but not really,
at least it's bright.

Remember when they created
their pumpkin blend around 2001?

They were just black and orange with little faces,
but in my opinion, perfect for Halloween.
From there it only got better when they
improved upon it with "Cool Ghouls Blend"
adding purple and lime green
to the black and orange.

I know it's a petty complaint
in the grand scheme of things,
but WHY did M&M's mess with perfection?

2013 UPDATE:
M&M's has just released a Target exclusive,

Pumpkin Spice as a fun new flavor 
that's getting mixed reviews for flavor. 
Described as chocolate with a faint cinnamon 
red hearts aftertaste.

Nice idea, but still sadly lacking a bright

Halloween color pallet...

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Why the brown? 

Orange and black would have

added a Halloween pop.

Also,why can't Target request an

exclusive "Cool Ghouls Blend"?

NOW THAT WOULD BE NEWS.

Instead, another year of

Harvest Bland Blend.

UPDATE 2013 Continued!!!

I've just discovered a delicious website!

Amy's Gourmet Apples.

I don't know how, but Amy's has discover 

a supply of Halloween M&M's both

the black and orange with faces, and the 

"Cool Ghouls Blend", and she's offering them

up on her gourmet candy apples!

Check these babies out!

Oh, yeah....they have the fall blend too, yay...

Where did Amy's get the Halloween M&M's?

I don't know, but I want in on the secret.

get them here

Doesn't this look so frightfully good?

All covered in black and orange 

Halloween goodness.

get one here

They call this one their 

"Spooky Halloween M&M Caramel Apple"

I love the colors! They add a pop to any party.

Check out all of Amy's Halloween selections

They're simply to die for!

Okay...rant over.

Hope you all are have a
Great Halloween Season!

UPDATE 2019!!!

Halloween M&M's are BAAAAACK!
Check out my post here