Wildly Cherry M&M's

Back when I was a tiny tot, M&M's came in plain and peanut varieties, and their colored shells came in orange, yellow, dark brown, light brown, and green. There were hardly any green in each package, and green M&M's were rumored to make teenagers feel sexual.
(For some reason, I hate the word horny. It's almost as bad as "boobs". God, I hate the word "boobs". Boobs and horny are just two very ungraceful words.)

At the time, I was told that red dye was harmful and that's why there weren't red M&M's. I think a lot of people believed that. The truth, according to M&M's parent company, Mars, is that the candies never did contain the controversial red dye, but because of the controvery, they stopped making a red shelled candy and took it out of the color mix. In the late 80's, red was brought back due to overwhelming demand.

The newest M&M iteration is Wildly Cherry, a whole package of bright red and dark red M&M's that are subtly cherry flavored. They say these are limited edition. They taste kind of weird. If you're accustomed to eating really good chocolate, you'll probably think they taste really bad. At first, you get this little taste of cherry, and you think maybe it's going to turn into a medicinal cherry taste, like cough syrup. But then it doesn't turn medicinal. It certainly tastes artificial-cherry, though.