"Once upon a time there was a boy named... Chef Lucas!
...whose favorite cooking ingredient was a red pepper!
Jesse was certainly as fiery as a red chili pepper [handmade by the talented Aunt Mamie], but being the tubbers that he is, he probably most resembled a round bell pepper...
Though he didn't mind it, at first Lucas was confused as to why folks kept planting one on his cheek. When asked to smile for the camera, this is what Chef Lucas did:
Once he was transformed from Toddler to Chef Lucas, he decided he wanted to stay home and cook in the kitchen instead of trick-or-treating as planned. But after one or two tastes of the ritual that involves getting free candy just for being cute, he was hooked...
Along the way they saw their friends and neighbors, including Lucas's buddy Mateo.
...who had been transformed into Pajama Batman and was going in a different direction to collect his goods and to battle evil in the world. So Chef Lucas gave him some pointers...
'Dude, I wouldn't go to that house. I wanted Nerds and all they gave out was Mallow bars.'
Finally, Batman Mateo and Chef Lucas stole a few nibbles of the little red pepper before going their separate ways...
Then it was off to meet their friends Andrew and Isaac to hit the stores on the commercial street where they lived. But those little fingers no longer belonged to the Andrew they knew...
They belonged instead to a green martian! (And a very affectionate martian at that.)
The cries for "more candy!" became persistent, demanding, almost maniacal. Chef Lucas was headed down the path of no return...
Chef Lucas hadn't eaten in hours because he had been too excited to eat his lunch...
So the gods decided to intervene with slightly more substantial food. Luckily, Chef Lucas, Pepper Jesse and Martians Andrew and Isaac live in Bay Ridge, where there's a pizza joint on practically every block...
It was just too easy for the countless restaurant workers along the street to offer Chef Lucas a job.
A passerby was overheard saying that he had just seen Chef Boyardee! (But Chef Lucas assures us that he does not cook with preservatives or artificial ingredients or hydrogenated oils.)
Though their bellies were full, that sweet pepper was too irresistable to stop munching on!
Later they met up with Lobster Liam, also known as Lucas's second favorite cooking ingredient...
...especially freshly caught Lobster Liam.
And everyone had a great time and ate lots of candy and went to bed very late but happy.
The End."
