My box of Skittles

I sit in my office on a California dreary day (60°, overcast) with my giant box of Skittles at my side. It is my charge, along with others, to take this box of Skittles and thoroughly inspect each one for its quality. This includes roundness factor, color, shape, texture, and flavor. This, of course, is difficult for I have my own tastes and proclivities for certain types of Skittles. You see, I like my Skittles to be a bit surprising. For example, the green ones I expect to be full of potential in flavor but completely lacking when I bite in. However, it is nice when I do bite in I get the hint of other Skittle flavors which may have, at some point, played or gotten along with that Skittle before it met its demise in my aesthetic digestive tract. From the blue Skittles, I expect long, overly drawn out flavors that overstay their welcome on my palette. Red Skittles tend to be strange and inconsistent in shape. I stare at them quite a bit and think "how on earth did this ever leave the plant?" But then when I bite in (and it takes a lot of courage to do so) I am sometimes surprised as the experience begins to feel quite different as expected.

And so, I sit at my desk with my giant box of Skittles, popping each in my mouth, contemplating the initial experience a while and then decided if I really want to commit to swallowing the damn thing. I have to admit that often my floor is grossly decorated with a combination of saliva and half-eaten Skittle. It looks sort of like a confectionary Jackson Pollock work which the artist tried to destroy but was then found 27 years later in a dumpster.

Probably one of the more amusing aspects of this experience is when the various manufacturers of these Skittles send them to me they try to overtly conceal the origin of manufacture by dressing up the box in vivid colors or using funny nom de plumes in awful attempts to be witty, controversial, or sympathetic (hey, I'm jaded so anything is going to be met with intense skepticism from me).

I think I may have found a few prize Skittles to take to the Grand Skittles Jury.