By Emmy Griffin, Patriot Post - M&M’s, the candy-coated chocolate, has a series of “spokescandies” that have been used to advertise the sweet treat. Over the course of last year, the spokescandies became increasingly woke, or, as Jane Hwang, global vice president of Mars, put it, “modern.” ... This wokeification of candy has predictably sparked a lot of backlash from many people... The backlash was so severe that Mars decided to pull the M&M characters entirely. ...