Food Theory: The Disturbing Lore of M&Ms

hmm cannibalism week oh matthew what what did you say cannibalism week go back to sleep you're having a weird dream cannibalism [Music] hello internet welcome to food theory the show that melts your face not in your hand theorists it is cannibalism week here on all three channels no seriously all three episodes released within minutes of each other all with a theme of cannibalism gotta admit it started as a joke during a production meeting and then i just said you know why not and everyone else responded because cannibalism but i ignored him and forced this to go through and now we're here doing three episodes all about eating members of your own species tldr i am in a weird mental place anyway for our second ever three-way collab across our channels after of course our kfc trilogy from earlier this year i knew that i had to talk about the m ms here on food theory after all the walking talking eminem spokes candies have been making jokes towing the line of cannibalism for decades now check out my halloween costume what are you going as a cannibal oh see what i mean funny stuff there m's very amusing oh here's another classic you don't need your own kind it's unnatural yeah give me that crispy another pg rated cannibalism joke marketing at its finest m ms does it again let's watch one more shall we and here to help us launch this delicious product is the newest member of our team the hazelnut spread eminem spoke candy what uh wait for for some reason i don't remember this one you're telling me that they actually ate the new spokes candy you ate the new spokes candy not all of them well this went in a direction i didn't expect like i thought the m ms were cannibals in a jokey jokey wink-wink nudge-nudge kind of way like oh look at them they're eating the candy versions of themselves haha but like the commercials just come right out and say it here they ate one of their own kind definitively i mean i figured i'd swoop in prove eminems or cannibals drop a few marshall mathers puns and then be on my way but who am i supposed to theorize for an entire episode about something they've outright been putting into their ads for years i mean the definition for cannibalism couldn't be any more black and white it's quote the practice of eating the flesh of one's own species and that's exactly what these candies are doing here it's not like different types of m m's are different species right right you know come to think of it what parts of the m m spokes candies are actually flash are any parts of them technically flesh i mean we talked about this with the kool-aid man he's the glass pitcher and not the juice held within so what are the eminem's spokes candies then are they actual living creatures or might it be more like a toy story three scenario like when mr potato head's accessories bring an inanimate tortilla to life hold on let me go watch every single 3d animated m ms commercial from the last three decades real quick yup okay yep whoa what is going on there yeah you know what change of plans friends there's just too many questions floating around the eminem's spokes candy universe and it's high time that somebody got themselves some answers so i'll do it i'm gonna take the case get ready to taste justice friends cause today's food theory is exploring what the m m's actually are and whether any of them have actually committed the crime of cannibalism yes this is a real video that you clicked on and are about to watch and yes this is my job and i take it very seriously serious enough to design a special event three episode crossover all about cannibalism what is wrong with me oh it has been such a long 10 years ladies and gentlemen of the jury before we go any further we need to talk spokescandy anatomy exactly which parts of a spokes candy's body are and are not flesh at a glance it seems like an easy question to answer the colored eminem area is delicious candy flesh and then their limbs are made out of some kind of tan non-chocolate flesh and finally their gloves and shoes are clothing and i agree those assumptions about spokescandy anatomy made sense if you've seen certain m m commercials like the oddly racist one where a tribal eminem on an island wears no shoes or gloves that right there is proof that those items are removable clothing and then there's the whole slew of ads in which m ms get bites taken out of their bodies proof that their bodies are in fact edible but when you watch every eminem commercial in existence like i did you start running into ads that destroy everything that you thought you knew about spokescandy anatomy like this [Music] oh it is such a cursed image i don't know whose kink it is to watch anthropomorphized candy undress but yep it's there giving us the unexpected truth that the spokes candy's shells are removable clothing and this is actually well established in the commercials we see it again and again and again and again and okay you get the point this of course means that m m's aren't really different colors they just like to dress up in different colored outfits their skin as it were is actually the layer of milk chocolate under that removable shell armor which seems pretty reasonable given the fact that eminem spokes candies refer to themselves as naked whenever they're caught without their shells i'm naked i mean i guess i'm a little surprised that all this nudity is allowed to air on network television uncensored or whatever but i guess i can accept it anyway that solves all the questions that we had regarding the flash so now we can move along holy no oh what the heck oh it oh what is this editors stop the video we're gonna have to unpack this because here we've been led to believe that the chocolate is the m m's skin but in this one commercial we see one that the chocolate can be removed as clothing and two what the fcc actually cares about pixelating is this in this french commercial which is a follow-up to their australian strip poker commercial we see that the peanut is the actual nude part of the m m i don't want to show my you know peanut theorists do you understand what we've just uncovered aside from yellow's privates this is proof that the spokes candy's milk chocolate is also not a part of their core essence which makes no sense until you look a bit closer and start to see everything line up we see in numerous commercials that spokes candies can feel things like heat and pain but the thing is they only really seem to feel those sensations with their limbs bites are constantly being taken out of the eminem's spokes candy's quote-unquote bodies in these commercials and yet even when they have a huge chunk of chocolate missing from their heads or their butts they're not especially fazed they continue their chit-chat they continue walking around they are just so nonchalant about whatever physical pain they're in or whatever chunk of their body is missing which leads me to believe that a chunk of their body isn't missing theorists all of this evidence supports the idea that it isn't just the candy shell that's edible removable clothing the milk chocolate underneath is edible removable clothing too and this of course leads us to a bigger potentially terrifying question what then do these spokes candy creatures actually look like underneath their clothing something like this perhaps i promise this isn't just me trying my best to give you all nightmares we actually have canonical insight into what the insides of eminem's spokes candies look like take this commercial where orange undergoes an operation to change him from crispy eminem to pretzel eminem there is no way that you're putting a giant pretzel inside me listen buddy i'm not too thrilled about this either and thanks to that operation we get a glimpse into what's going on inside orange's body human-like bones in his human-like legs and an actual pretzel embedded inside his shell this of course means that when you take away all the clothing edible and otherwise orange's body looks like this a series of disconnected limbs and facial features crips there are some nerve strands connecting them considering that nerves don't show up on x-rays but i'm not so sure spokes candies are able to move their free floating eyebrows without problems so that could very well apply to the rest of their body parts too but what this means is that yellow the peanut m m looks a little something like this blue the almond m m looks similar and the three milk chocolate spokes candies of red brown and green are the most bizarre of all so having established all of that we now turn to the question of cannibalism you saw what was left of the hazelnut spread spokes candy nothing but his clothes and a few stray crumbs they definitely ate him but was it cannibalism because remember cannibalism is the practice of eating the flesh of one's own species and ladies and gentlemen of the jury the anatomy of these spokes candies proves that they are indeed different species for this proof we need to look no further than phylogenetics the study of the evolutionary history and classification of different organisms by considering all the known evidence about an organism scientists are able to place it within a chart that shows its evolutionary lineage from there organisms are classified into kingdoms genuses species etc etc based on similar traits how does the real-life study of phylogeny help us with our fictitious m m classification you ask well as we saw in that earlier commercial you don't need your own kind it's unnatural yeah give me that crispy the m ms see other flavors of m m's as not their own kind implying that they may very well be different species and the phylogenetics backs this up because our spokes candies actually have real-life plant material inside of them thanks to phylogenetics we know that almonds and peanuts come from different plant species same with the wheat that's used to make the pretzels same with the hazelnut used to make hazelnut spread these plants are designated as different species in real life therefore our m m spokes candies whose dna literally includes the dna of said plants should be considered a different species as well and yes eminem spokes candies do canonically have dna that would be your positive dna test right there i would think so what does this mean about our candy cannibals well blue the almond eminem is in the clear we know he ate the hazelnut spread spokes candy but since they're different species this can't be considered actual cannibalism same goes for the chocolate green m m hazelnut spread m ms have a spread inside the milk chocolate thereby making it a different species brown also innocent across all commercials she is not once seen eating a non-living m m but what about red yellow and orange who are all seen eating their own kind in that commercial starring cronk they've got to be guilty right not necessarily remember this isn't their body this is when you strip away the candy coating and the milk chocolate clothes there's nothing but human-like limbs and facial features that means that they actually share no common flesh with eminem's candy a candy made of chocolate in a shell when he eats a regular old m m from a bag these guys are just essentially eating the same material that their clothes are made of and eating your clothes certainly weird but you can't tell me it's cannibalism and you can't tell me it's unethical otherwise i would eat my hats and in doing so create an ethical paradox in your mind so there you have it friends people may call the eminem's spokes candies cannibals heck they even call themselves cannibals from time to time but the fact of the matter is they aren't and they shouldn't be punished for it should they be punished for other stuff oh most certainly guys they killed and ate the hazelnut spread spokes candy i mean just because it technically isn't cannibalism doesn't mean it isn't murderous and depraved so yeah send them to prison even i'm not gonna defend that sort of behavior but hey that's just a theory one cannibalism theory here on cannibalism weekend theorists i hope you enjoyed this sugar-coated cannibalism episode if you're in the mood for more man-eating goodness that stuff i said earlier about cannibalism week wasn't a joke we actually have all three channels doing episodes themed around cannibalism there's one over on film theory revisiting an episode i did on wall-e's cannibalism yes the pixar movie and it's cannibalistic hidden story and over on game theory i have three words for you human soda cans it's a game it is weird and it is definitely something that you'll want to watch both of those episodes are on screen right now make sure you click on them if you're not subscribed to this theory channel make sure you do before you go and i'll see you all next week bon appetit you

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Length: 12min 11sec (731 seconds)

Published: Sat May 08 2021