Wait, haven't we already done this?

[moominmolly]

Custom-printed M&Ms. Because, you know, the THIRTY POUNDS of custom-printed sweet-tart-like candy hearts are finally gone...

Comments

[nacht_musik]

They are? I've still got about 90% of my share here on my shelf. :-)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but, see, it's not MY shelf anymore. :)

[cuthalion.livejournal.com]

I don't like that they limit what you can and cannot say. I ran into the same problem with a singing telegram service in Spokane, once.

:(

[spike.livejournal.com]

You just have to get creative and work around their censors! After all, I can think of plenty of things that could get past this filter (http://shop.mms.com/customized/printing/pop_dos.asp?UID=):

While we encourage your creativity, Masterfoods USA will not honor a request to print any "objectionable" language, acronyms, symbols, pictures, or any other graphic representation. "Objectionable" means, among other things, anything that
(i) is libelous, defamatory, pornographic, sexually explicit, unlawful, racially or ethnically offensive,
(ii) infringes on someone else's patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret or other property right,
(iii) is something people would consider harassing, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, profane, obscene, or violent,
(iv) would breach a person's privacy or publicity rights,
(v) is a misrepresentation of facts,
(vi) hate speech,
(vii) encourages others to break the law in any way, or
(viii) is otherwise inappropriate.

Since their a commercial (not government) outfit, they can censor however they like, but what I actually appreciate is that they have a written and published set of guidelines, rather than just a bunch of cranky old schoolmarms telling you that you can't get M&M's that say "eat me!".

I wonder if they'd let you get ones printed that said "M&M'S®", even though that's a trademark?  ;)

[harimad.livejournal.com]

Some of their restrictions make sense - such as no stealing intellectual property. No names of major landmarks doesn't make sense to me.

Nonetheless, kudos to Mars Inc for creating easy to read, easy to understand legalese.

[jacflash.livejournal.com]

I bet it's because they hope to enter into lucrative licensing agreements with major landmark operators, etc....

[rosefox]

I'm disgustingly tempted to use those as wedding favors, just because it would save time. I'll get over it, though.

[chaggalagirl.livejournal.com]

if you ordered some of those now i bet by the time they were almost gone Spawnie will be old enough to enjoy one or two m&ms herself ;)

[dolohov.livejournal.com]

Ah, the M&Ms store. I used to buy bags of black and white M&Ms to play Go with. (I suspect it's against the Geneva convention to eat prisoners, but I'm not personally a signatory...)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

We used to buy bags of black ones at F.A.O. Schweetz in Chicago when we were having people over for a vampire RPG. Playing Go with them is brilliant.

[gentlescholar.livejournal.com]

Oh, I definitely used them for small D&D monsters; whoever killed 'em got to eat 'em. The fighters got most, but MM also stands for Magic Missile, so that worked out okay...

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Brilliant idea

[cruiser.livejournal.com]

You should get a bunch printed with just the letter S, then mix them with a regular batch so you have S&Ms.