This is a serious question: how do you eat your M&M’s®?
I got to thinking about this question the other day while playing Spider Solitaire. I have this neurotic thing about how everything has to line up at the end of the Spider game (online). It all has to do with which suit gets completed first: Hearts. Then the next suit I have to complete MUST be Spades. Then Hearts, Spades, Hearts, Spades.
If I can’t line them up that way, I want to *at least* create a pattern: Hearts, Spades, Spades, Hearts, Hearts, Spades, Spades, Hearts. Or Spades, Spades, Hearts, Hearts, Hearts, Hearts, Spades, Spades (both ends are Spades). A random line up drives me nuts.
I do the same thing when playing straight Solitaire. If the first Ace is a Club, then the next Ace has to be either a Heart or a Diamond. Red-black-red-black, or black-red-black-red.
What does this have to do with colored chocolate morsels?
When I have a bag of M&M’s®, I pour them all out onto a napkin or little paper plate. Then I separate them by color. Brown is always the first color to get eaten. Then orange, yellow, green, or blue in some order. (Red is always last.) I can’t eat them randomly, or mix the colors. I used to work in an office where they would buy me the candy, just to make fun of the way I arranged them to eat.
Didn’t phase me.
I eat Skittles the same way. Or jelly beans.
So, the question remains: how do you eat your candy?
Better yet, do you make patterns when you play Solitaire?
The balance of life depends on your answers.
I think you can tell where this game is going…
Jaci Dawn 
Nope. I could never be this OCD!
I like chocolate a lot – or any kind of candy, really – but my standard choice is the individually-wrapped, temperature-indifferent hard candies that fit conveniently into overall pockets and mingle congenially with screws of assorted sizes, hardware and tools, and the occasional artifact dug up in the back 40. And, of course, the obligatory lint ball, which is not spherical at all, but usually a flat tangle of dog hair and unidentifiable fluff, in irregular conformation.
Cinnamon and butterscotch buttons. They must be eaten in equal combination; one red, one yellow simultaneously, to attain the perfectly harmonious balance, and replenished at a specific stage of dissolution.
M&M’s are meant to be devoured by the scant handful.
PS – Where is the nine of hearts?