This might be the best way ever to eat M&Ms.
Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels.Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the "loser," and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round.
I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world.
One of the perks of my office is that we have an assortment of snacks, including M&Ms. I cannot wait to try this and declare to the last surviving M&M, "Today I saw a M&M become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome."