Skittles are multicolored fruit-flavored lentil-shaped candies produced and marketed by the Wrigley Company, a division of Mars, Inc.

Skittles is a type of chewy fruit-flavored candy. They have a hard outside with a chewy inside and an "s" on one side. Skittles come in many flavors. The original flavors were lime, lemon, grape, orange, and cherry.

the U.K. According to an article on the history of candy from Penn State University, Skittles were first produced in the U.K. in 1974. The hard-shelled candies with a chewy inside landed in the U.S. in 1979 and got their "Taste the Rainbow" slogan in 1994 from an advertising agency in New York City.

Skittles Originated In Britain Though you might think they're a quintessentially American candy, Skittles were only available in Britain for five years before coming to North America in 1979. My entire history with the candy feels like a lie at this point.

Whether through horoscope posts, thought-provoking questions, or humorous memes, Skittles refrains from overtly advertising specific products on most of its posts.

The word “skittles” entered English in the 1630s, possibly riding over with the Scandinavians, or possibly coming from the Old English “sceoten,” meaning, “to shoot.” The tabletop version that was the “Big Buck Hunter” of the pubs along the Thames might have shown up with Dutch sailors from a game they played on their ...

The word “skittles” entered English in the 1630s, possibly riding over with the Scandinavians, or possibly coming from the Old English “sceoten,” meaning, “to shoot.” The tabletop version that was the “Big Buck Hunter” of the pubs along the Thames might have shown up with Dutch sailors from a game they played on their ...

Why do Skittles make a rainbow in water? Skittles are made with colourful dyes and sugar. The warm water dissolves this dye and sugar and they move towards a place where there is less dye and sugar, in this case, the middle of the plate! We call this process diffusion.

Skittles were originally called Glees when they were first manufactured in the UK in the 1960s. Now, they're the number one non-chocolate confectionary in the US, and are made in Illinois by Mars Wrigley.

They were first introduced in North America in 1979 as an import confectionery. In 1982, domestic production of Skittles began in the United States. The name of the candy, Skittles, comes from the sports game of the same name, named as such for the resemblance of the sweet to items used in the game.

In 1947, the slogan was 'Taste the rainbow of fruit colours' and the essence of this has been carried through every single Skittles campaign since, although now it has been shortened to just 'Taste the rainbow'.

Developed and launched by New York advertising agency D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles in 1994, 'Taste the Rainbow' is one of the longest-running advertising campaigns ever. To date, there have been north of 40 'Taste the Rainbow' commercials made.