Is red food dye made from bugs? Where did red M&M's go in the '80s
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If you’ve watched the new season of “Stranger Things” on Netflix this week, you might have picked up on a tiny gaffe: Red M&M’s did not exist during most of the 1980s, but they do show up in the show, which takes place during the early part of that decade.
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