OK as promised here are the pictures of the skittles. Yes they appear genuine, (all have the right logo) and the brown colored ones are actually grape flavored. I included a picture of the brown one on my sock so you can all see it's not the lighting...

Yes, this is the clearly least substantial contribution I've ever made here on FT (except for the thread where I blamed UA for letting me fly 2/3's of the way to SIN with an almost expired passport and was denied a BP in NRT)...