Skittles Swaps Green Apple Flavor with Lime, Changes ‘Original’ Rainbow

March 24, 2013 // 10:00 am

Someone in Skittles Candy Land really screwed up. I’m not looking to get anyone fired, but who the hell decided to change one of the original Skittles flavors? Apparently, after conducting some sort of poll, the team over at the Skittles Kingdom chose to replace the Lime-flavored…

Count the Rainbow: How Many Of Each Color are in Your Favorite Pack of Candy?

February 18, 2013 // 4:10 pm

There’s nothing quite like reaching into the bottom of a pack of Skittles and discovering — yes! You’ve still got one red left. And while we can’t promise this will be the breakdown each and every time (nor can we promise you’ll always be so lucky), we do hope this…

Smoke the Rainbow: Proof that Skittles’ Twitter Team is Perpetually High

January 14, 2013 // 6:39 pm

Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve always thought of Skittles as rather innocuous – not my favorite candy, but if you offered me some, for sure I’d be stealing all the reds.

That is, I did, until I discovered that Mashable discovered that Redditors discovered its twitter page.

Organize The Rainbow With This Automatic Skittles Sorter

November 8, 2012 // 2:54 pm

Skittles magician Brian Egenriether has solved an age-old dilemma that’s been around since 1974: How to separate the icky Skittles from the highly coveted red Skittles. Egenriether offers the Skittles Sorting Machine, crafted from a hummingbird feeder, telescope parts, PVC and a phototransistor, among other things.

It’s brilliant. It’s genius. Now…

French Bees Eat M&Ms, Puke Rainbows

October 8, 2012 // 12:49 pm

In case you’ve been dying to know what happens when a bunch of French bees consume the waste from a nearby M&M factory, here’s the short answer: kaleidoscopic honey.

This past summer, beekeepers from Ribeauville in Alsace noticed something was off when their bees starting producing blue,…

Skittles Birthday Cake

December 13, 2011 // 4:09 pm

Just a few moments ago, Skittles brand made available this public photo of a birthday cake for a very lucky Jasmine Villegas. The cake reminds you to taste the tropical rainbow, and moree precisely, remember that a Skittles cake of that size has a net…

Fruity Candy Bark

November 29, 2011 // 9:13 pm

With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas fast approaching, most people are probably taking a break from consuming indulgent and decadent foods. I’m not most people.

Basically, I united my favorite fruity candies, with a little help from my trusty sidekick, white chocolate, into one saccharin-licious superpower of a dessert (so…

Happy National Candy Day, Here Are Some Melted Candies [INFOGRAPHIC]

November 4, 2011 // 4:25 am

November 4th is the officially recognized National Candy Day holiday. What does that mean? It means it’s time to express your inner child. Time to live out all those fantasies of sweet, sugary comas we often used to put ourselves in. But that’s not enough now…is it?

No, it’s…