Chad W.
(Alias "Hippity‑Hop")

Chad W. has followed the surefire formula for success: he has combined two of his favorite passions and come up with some­thing quite new. And, as they say, if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. Let's examine what has led up to the phenomenal success of Mr. W. in the heady world of big business.

To begin with we shall have to travel backward in this young man's life to those wonderful middle school years when he was privileged to be a part of that world renown Creative Expres­sions class taught by the Legendary Mr. Christopherson. It was the incredibly sharp eye of the Legendary Instructor that quickly spotted the first of Chad's passions: food. This kid loved to eat! He could be seen gorging himself on just about anything that might happen to get a bit too close to his mouth. Of course, he was somewhat selective. If something were too big to fit in his comfortably large mouth, and if it could not be broken down into smaller chunks, why then he wouldn't consider eating it. Otherwise, down the hatch with it!

Chad's second great passion happened to develop as a direct result of the fantastically stimulating Life Science class taught by, who else, the Legendary Mr. Christopherson. The boy discovered that he had a real talent for dissecting animals. He worked diligently alongside the other gifted students in that science class, all of whom were well aware of the honor they shared in being taught by the Legendary Mr. Christopherson, whose students inevitably went on to become the very top leaders in whichever field of science they chose to enter. With that crazy grin on his face, Chad could be seen hacking and chopping away at various subjects: the eyeball, the earth­worm, the crayfish, his friend and not all that willing a volunteer, Dan, the frog, and so forth.

As it turns out, young Chad was not above a little hanky‑panky now and again. On the day of the Grand Frog Dissection, unseen by all (except the eagle‑eyed Legendary Mr. Christopherson, of course, who realized the boy was a genius of some sort and needed to be given his head in such matters), Chad smuggled a preserved specimen out of the lab room.

Upon reaching his home, he carefully placed the frog on a convenient plate in the kitchen and went about the business of whipping up a little after school snack (his 23rd so far that day, as snacks came and went). Well, you can guess what happened. The boy threw all his favorite things to eat into the blender (his parents had purchased a special 5 gallon blender in order to satisfy his generally heavy hunger needs). Such as: a loaf of bread; 6 eggs (shells included); half a jar of peanut butter; last night's leftover anchovy pizza; some potato salad; a piece of blueberry pie; a head of lettuce (for roughage); 3 pencils (for fiber); a bag of corn chips; and last Saturday's newspaper (which happened to be lying in the immediate area). Being rather eager to get started, rather than including the many additional items at hand, he fired up the blender. (His theory was that if you are going to eat all of this stuff anyway, why not just blend it all together and down it in one quick gulp.)

After burping up some pencil lead and the sport's page, he headed for his room. Suddenly he remembered the pickled frog and hurried back to the kitchen, only to find the frog was gone! The plate was still there by the blender (an oversight he later admitted since ceramic products were normally fair game for the super-sized blades of his blender), but the frog . . . Oh no, could it be? Now that he thought about it, didn't that snack have a distinctly different taste this time? A rather intriguing pickled-like quality, in fact. No other explanation; he must have eaten the preserved frog as part of his snack. The more he thought about it, the more he realized that he had enjoyed that snack more than any he'd had in a long time. It was terrific, in fact. A whole new taste.

So there you have it. Through this accidental blending of two passions, eating and life science, the young genius came up with that fantastic new flavor, FROG! It was just a hop and a jump for this youngster to go from kitchen to national franchise. In thousands of Chad's "Fast-Froggie" restaurants, pickled frogs are being blended into drinks by the millions. And now we shall let you in on one of his most secret of ingredients (sorry Chad, but we never promised to keep this blockbuster item of information quiet). This innovative entrepreneur himself recently admitted to the Legendary Mr. Christopherson that he still adds at least one wooden lead pencil to each drink served in his restaurants, "To give that little flavorful fiber edge that keeps me ahead of the competition," as he put it.