Can anyone tell me the meaning of 'more M&M’s, please'?

Question

As title.
That's what I saw in a novel, but no searching results from google or other search engine. Can anyone tell me what that sentense means?
Appreciate for your time and efforts.

Actually, the original sentence is like this 'My body never tells me anything,' I objected. "Except, 'more M&M's, please.'"
I can't figure out why the auther wants to quote this sentence here, and in the context there is no description of that they are enjoying the M&M chocolate or something like that.
If anyone knows the meaning, please tell me the answer.
Many thanks.

It's from Beth Kendrick's novel ' My Favorite Mistake', paperback page 97.

Answer 1

Hi, well before what you quoted
<<'My body never tells me anything,' I objected. "Except, 'more M&M's, please.'">>
the other character in the novel probably suggested to the narrator that he or she listen (more closely) to his or her body. What for? I don't know the novel, you do, but I suppose it would be in order to find out what the narrator needs in some respect, like in order to make the right decision or in order to stay healthy or in order to know what's wrong with your body, or maybe even in order to know what next step to take during being physically intimate...
Anyway, the other character must be suggesting: Listen to what your body is telling you. In other words: Be more aware of yourself, of the natural (instinctual) wisdom you have inside about what you need and about what isn't good for you.
In response, the narrator then says "My body never tells me anything, except, 'more M&M's, please.'" It means that he or she does not believe trying to listen to what the body is saying will help one bit.

"Except 'more M&Ms please'" emphasises in a funny and sarcastic way how absurd listening to the body seems to the narrator. He or she is really saying "My body does not talk", and to underline that he or she gives an example of the only way in which his or her body ever does "talk" - and that is through an urge for more chocolate. Which likely is the opposite of what the other character meant, because a lot of chocolate is not healthy and the urge for a lot of it is usually a way of trying to cover up true needs. So quoting 'more M&Ms please' as the only message from his or her body, the narrator is emphasising even more how silly it would be to ask his or her body due either to how removed he or she is from that inner wisdom or due to how little he or she believes in the possibility of communicating with the body.

It's probably quite funny in the context.
What book is it? :)

Answer 2

Just a guess...

Maybe its to show that the writer thinks eating M&Ms is more important than the subject being dicussed? Its like they'd rather be eating M&Ms (doing trivial stuff) than discuss about the subject.

Answer 3

I suspect that it refers to something that happens in the novel. It doesn't strike me as any special idiom. You might find out when you read the book.

Answer 4

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