JC: The Malcontent Maori and the Media Mob

What first comes to mind when you think about M&M’s? No doubt it is the sweet-tasting coloured chocolate pebbles in a packet. These M&M’s stand for Mars and Murrie. Mars refers to Forrest E Mars Snr, the founder of Mars, and Murrie refers to Bruce Murrie, the son of Hershey’s Chocolates president William F R Murrie. The story behind how M&M’s came to be begins after Mars had a fallout with his father and travelled to Europe.

What does this have to do with anything you may ask. Well, here it is.