"How do you eat your candy?"

I laughed so hard when I read this post on Cosmic Variance.

As a major geek (and proud of it), I also have a slight candy neurosis. Specifically with M&M's, although I've also been known to do it with Skittles. I separate all the candies into sets of "rainbows" (i.e. every group has one red, one orange, one yellow, one green, one blue, and one brown M&M) arranged in a circle. I take the rest of them and arrange them in as-close-to-rainbow-circles-as-possible. (i.e. if I have a red, orange, yellow, green, and brown, but no more blues, I make a rainbow-minus-blue circle.) And I continue the trend until I'm down to the loners (for example, 3 extra yellows that don't have a rainbow-group to join).

First I eat the left-overs (the non-complete rainbows). And I eat my M&M's in order of loneliness. By that I mean, I eat all the singletons first. Then the pairs, then the triplets, etc, until I'm up to the full circles.

Then I'm left with pretty rainbow-circle-chocolates. :-)

Hey, at least now I know it's a geek thing, and I'm not just crazy. (Well ok, maybe I am, but at least I'm not alone.)

Leave a comment if you do something similar with your candy...