I worked for the Mars candy company in Chicago for over 22 years. We make Snickers, Milky Way,
3 Musketeers and Dove chocolate bars. Besides the candy bars, we make the milk chocolate for the candy
for our own use as well as supplying it to other Mars plants for their candy production. I was a chocolate
plant process operator until I retired. One of the quality tests is a taste test and I was regularly recertified
to do so. I could eat all the candy and chocolate I wanted to while I was at work. We can make over
150,000 lbs of chocolate in 8 hours. 3 Musketeers originally was a 3 piece bar with vanilla, chocolate,
and strawberry centers which explains the name. Snickers was named after a Mars family horse. M&M
stands for Mars and Murray who invented it. Before refrigeration was common, M&Ms allowed chocolate
to be consumed in summer when it would otherwise just melt.
"The best candy on Earth comes from Mars".