Pecan Pie M&M’s are back as a Walmart exclusive! Please find our review below:

Quick, name your favorite pie!

According to this pie chart on pies, you most likely said “apple” or “pumpkin.” But somewhere in the distant shadows of these perrenial powerhouses is the glorious pecan pie. A traditional pecan pie features crunchy pecans binded together with a sweet & sticky glue made out of butter, brown sugar, syrup, and vanilla. This gooey crack is then baked into a flaky & buttery crust. With the exception of the Deep South, we typically reserve pecan pie for Thanksgiving here in the States like a bunch of amateurs.

Thankfully, M&M’s have prematurely shot their wad and has simultaneously released all of their fall flavors an entire season too early. Representing fall as hole, we’re #blessed with the White Pumpkin Pie M&M’s. For Halloween, Candy Corn M&M’s return. And finally… for Thanksgiving, we’re thankful for Pecan Pie M&M’s.

Pecan Pie M&M’s

The M&M’s brand should be applauded for navigated unchartered waters here. A fall staple, pecan pie is criminally underrepresented in the seasonal junk food game. The only other mainstream snack company to go this route before was Pringes. Pecan Pie Pringles were a novel idea, but nobody liked them due to the fact that they were Pecan Pie Pringles.

I’m excited to see if Mars can nail this fall favorite.

Note: Fall does not officially begin for another 37 days.

Not exactly. When you bite into Pecan Pie M&M’s, you get a quick jab from a roasted nut flavor. It’s not distinctly pecan, but it’s got an earthy undertone I can convince myself is pecan. Savor this flavor, people, because it’s gone in a hurry.

The flavors quickly normalize to that of the standard milk chocolate M&M. The second M&M tastes even less like pecan than the first, as the M&M milk chocolate permeates your palate. By the third M&M, I could barely taste any difference at all. To fully appreciate this specialty flavor, you’ll have to wait about a minute or two between M&M’s and I simply don’t have time for that.

(I’ve been doing it for the last hour and a half.)

I tried and tried to pick apart the flavors in that tiny little window, which required me to eat half the bag. I’m getting hints of caramel, or even coffee, more than pecan pie. They’re tasty but not quite what was intended.

I can’t help but wonder if white chocolate would have added a creamy, decadent element like when a pie is topped with whipped cream. The milk chocolate flavor just seems to interfere with the goal of pecan pie.

I guess I will just have to wait until Thanksgiving like a schmuck to enjoy a true taste of pecan pie.

How Many Seconds It Tastes Like Pecan Rating: 1 out of 10
How Many Pecan Pies I’ll Eat on Thanksgiving Rating: 2 out of 10
Overall Rating: 6 out of 10

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