So for some reason I decided to outline my method of eating candy here, where everyone can read it and finally get hard proof that I’m nuts.

This really only applies to small bits of multi-colored or multi-flavored candy (M&Ms, Skittles, etc) — I have a separate system to eat candy that comes in bar form.

For this example I’m eating Yogos…

1. Dump out the candy onto your table or desk. Try not to make too much noise if you are at work, or else your coworkers will notice what you’re doing and come over to make fun of you.
2. Sort candy into piles, by color.
3. Count the number of candies in each of the single-color groups.
4. Even out the single-color groups so that each group has the same number of candies as the group with the smallest number. So if you have groups of 9-8-7-6, you would even them out to groups of six.
5. Put these equal-numbered groups together into a new, multi-colored group. You’ll come back to this group later.
6. Keep narrowing down the remaining candy into multi-colored groups as you did above, until you (possibly) have one color left. You may get lucky and have an even number, but I’ve never had that happen.
7. Now, sort each of the new multi-colored groups into smaller groups of one of each color, organized by color from the most popular color to least. See the photo below.

The hard work is now done and you can start eating. But you need to eat the candy in a particular method as well. Start eating from the smallest groups up to the largest, one color at a time, by popularity. Using the photo as an example, I’d eat the all-blue group first. Then I’d eat the middle group, blue-dark blue-pink-blue-dark blue-pink. When those are gone, I’d move on to the largest group, eating blue-dark blue-pink-purple, and so on until they’re all gone.

Confused? Ready to commit me? .:sigh:. I guess I brought this upon myself…