Skittles!

It's time for some made up news stories with one of our favorite snack foods! OK, so maybe they could never beat out anything with chocolate in it, but skittles are good too. Come on, admit it. You like them too. Well, anyway, imagine your favorite news anchor saying...


"Skittle Dinner"
There’s a fancy cook in New York City who had a huge surprise when he was making the evening meal for the party of a famous businessman, who has requested to remain anonymous. This fancy cook has an assistant. That assistant is the one who surprised the cook, and the surprise was a practical joke.
This assistant came to work with a large bag of Skittles, because he loves Skittles. Well, he realized just how similar the word Skittle was with the word skillet. With that in mind, he decided that his boss was going to get more than he bargained for when he asked for his skillet. You see, the assistant filled the skillet with Skittles. When the cook asked for his skillet, he got a skillet full of Skittles.
The part that makes this such an interesting story, is that the cook didn’t realize it at first. The cook immediately took the skillet to his stove and began to crack eggs into it. When the sound of the eggs hitting the skillet wasn’t the usual sound he heard, he looked closer and noticed the Skittles. He quickly got upset, and demanded an explanation from his assistant. His assistant was so busy laughing, they he never answered. He was fired on the spot.
The famous business man happened to be coming in to check on his dinner plans at that time. He noticed the skillet full of Skittles and a couple of cracked eggs. However, because the cook was still busy yelling at his assistant, the cook had never turned the stove off. The eggs and the Skittles were cooking nicely in the skillet. The curious businessman decided to take a taste of this interesting looking creation, and he loved it. He ordered the cook to serve it.
To the cooks surprise, not only did the businessman love it, but so did his wife. All the other guests at the dinner had mixed reactions, but the businessman gave the cook considerably more money than he was contracted for, and the assistant got his job back. The dinner was a hit for the cook, all because of a practical joke that turned into a masterpiece dinner. Oh, and the businessman’s wife demanded the recipe from him too.

"Alien Snack"
In rural Tennessee, a little boy has reported an interesting event with an alien. His parents have doubted the story, but many of the people in the nearby town of Alienville are riveted by his story. The reason the parents doubt the story is because the child recently saw the movie "E.T." and the events of the story strongly resemble some of the details of the movie. The reason the folks of the town find it so riveting is because some of the details are so different from the movie, they believe it must be true.
The boy says that he was riding his bike home for dinner. He had been at a friends house playing, and his parents called for him to come home. On the way, he noticed a space ship take off from a field. He noticed that there was a figure standing alone in the field, and he had to investigate.
When he approached the figure, it ran away behind a bush at the edge of the field, and it wouldn’t come out. The boy remembered that his friends mom had given him so Skittles to snack on, and he had put some in his pocket to save for later. He took out the Skittles and place them on the ground to lure the figure out. After tasting one, it did follow the trail out from behind the bush, and the boy saw that it was an alien.
The boy asked the alien if he wanted more. The alien nodded yes. The boy gave him some more, and began talking to the alien about the universe. After about ten minutes of sharing the secrets of the galaxy, the alien stopped and looked up. He asked the boy, "Phone home?"
The boy agreed and lent him his cell phone. The alien made a quick call, and the space ship returned within minutes. The two hugged and the alien left with his fellow aliens. Then the boy reached for more of his Skittles and realized that the alien had stolen them. Right then, his cell phone rang. It was the alien, and he bragged to the boy, "Na, na. I got your Skittles! Ahahahahaha!"