by Anthony Megna

Created on: March 31, 2009   Last Updated: January 19, 2012

M&M's are the best candy ever made! Whether plain or peanut, they are unique. But what is better, plain or peanut?

As I get older, I get more of a sweet tooth. Maybe because my taste buds need more excitement? Who knows, but I do know I am in love with M&M peanuts. Oh, I have always loved them, since I was a kid all those years ago. But I would also eat plain M&M's as well. Not anymore baby, it is peanuts for me.

My wife and I both eat these balls of goodness, but I have to say I am more addicted to them. The outer candy coating, with it's sweet crunch is just fine, thank you. Then, breaking through the candy to the sweet, warm, chocolate. But wait...the fun is not over yet! The peanut awaits...

I must say, I have never had a bad peanut in an M&M candy. They have always been crunchy, tasty, and fresh-tasting. Sometimes, if I am really hungry I will eat 2 or 3 at a time.

Nothing curbs my hunger like these little devils, and I always feel satisfied. Maybe because I am getting good nutrition from the peanut. Unlike other candies, with just chocolate or candy, I don't feel as guilty eating M&M's? I don't know, but I do love them.

I'm not too fond of the calorie count, however. Just 4 of these babies are around 50 calories. Eat enough of them at one sitting and move to another belt buckle. But since I am addicted to them, it is quite difficult to stop eating them.

I used to just wolf them down without a care in the world. That was when I was young and had the metabolism of a blast furnace. Now, I just savor them one by one, knowing full well the calories I am consuming, but not giving a dang about it. Take too much good out of life and why live I always say.

It's just another example of things you love to eat but are fattening or bad for you or whatever. I just have to shut out the voice in my head that sounds like some schoolmarm scolding me, and annihilate the guilt I feel.

Lately, when we go shopping we are buying the biggest bag they sell. I love the color yellow, I love the weight of the bag, I love the resealable feature of the bag, I love...I love...I love...and I haven't even tasted one today yet. I'm not sick enough to break open the bag on the way home from the grocery store, but if I'm alone and hungry watch out.

Sometimes I open the bag, grab a few and stick them in my shirt pocket. My wife, when hungry, uses her antennae to come up to me and grab my nipple to get at the delectable goodies in my pocket. One time she grabbed my nipple in her lust to eat one, hence the name...nipples. But whatever you like to call them, M&M Peanuts are the best candy in the whole wide world. You can take that statement to the bank!

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