The Chocolate Chip Ghost Story
 

Once there was a family of ghosts--a mother and 8 children.  One day, when the mother was in the kitchen, she discovered there was nothing to eat, so she gathered her children together and told them she needed to go to the store.  She said to them, "Remember, don't eat or drink anything.  Ghosts should only eat cottage cheese, ice cream and drink only milk. (I say "ghosts should only eat foods that are white" and then have the children  name some white foods) I don't have any of these things."  So the mother said good-bye and went to the store. Well, while she was gone, the first little ghost got hungry and went looking for food.  He opened the cupboard and found some bananas.  He ate them and the next thing he knew he had turned yellow!  The second little ghost found some lettuce and when he ate it he turned green! The third little ghost found some strawberries outside and ate a whole basket full. Then he looked at himself and, yes, he had turned red!  Well, the fourth little ghost found some pink lemonade--after he drank it  all he found that he had turned pink! The fifth little ghost found a fruit bowl filled with plums.  He ate all the plums and turned very purple.  The sixth little ghost picked some oranges from the tree and ate them.  He turned orange!  The seventh little ghost ate a whole plate of blueberry muffins and turned blue!  The eighth little ghost didn't want anything to happen to him, so he searched everywhere to find something that a ghost should eat, like milk, cottage cheese, whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.  When he looked in the freezer he saw some ice cream.  He took it and ate it all.  Then he looked at himself.  OH NO!  He turned polka dot.  It was chocolate chip ice cream!  When the mother came home, she cried, "OH MY GOODNESS!  LOOK AT ALL OF YOU."  She called the doctor.  He came and looked at all the little ghosts and shook his head.  Then he took some medicine out of his bag.  He gave each little ghost a spoonful, except the chocolate chip ghost.  He had 2 spoonfuls because dots are very hard to make go away.

Another version:

Once upon a time, there lived 5 little ghosts. As everyone knows, ghosts are white and to stay white.  The only thing they can eat is vanilla ice cream and the only thing that they can drink is milk. One day when Mama ghost went to the refrigerator, there was no vanilla ice cream and no milk. So she had to go to the grocery store and before she left she said, "No matter how hungry you get, do not eat  anything or something dreadful will happen." The first ghost became so thirsty and he looked in the refrigerator and saw a little glass of grape juice and thought, "just one teeny sip wouldn't hurt." So he took a one teeny sip of grape juice and what do suppose happened? He turned purple! The other ghosts looked at him and said "Mama told us that something dreadful would happen and she was right." The little ghost did not want his Mama to see him all purple so he ran upstairs and hide in the toy box.  The second ghost became so hungry and he looked in the refrigerator and saw a carrot and thought, "just one teeny bite wouldn't hurt." So he took a one teeny bite of the carrot and what do suppose happened? He turned orange! The other ghosts looked at him and said "Mama told us that something dreadful would happen and she was right." The little ghost did not want his Mama to see him all orange so he ran upstairs and hide in the closet. The third ghost became so hungry and he looked in the refrigerator and saw a bowl of spinach and thought, "just one teeny bite wouldn't hurt." So he took a one teeny bite of spinach and what do suppose happened? He turned green! The other ghosts looked at him and said "Mama told us that something dreadful would happen and she was right." The little ghost did not want his Mama to see him all green so he ran upstairs and hide under the bed. The fourth ghost became so hungry and he looked in the refrigerator and saw a bowl of strawberries and thought, "just one teeny bite wouldn't hurt." So he took a one teeny bite of a strawberry and what do suppose happened? He turned red! The other ghosts looked at him and said "Mama told us that something dreadful would happen and she was right." The little ghost did not want his Mama to see him all red so he ran upstairs and behind the door. The fifth ghost said, "I'm so hungry but I will not do what my brothers did.  I'll look in the freezer and see if there is just maybe a little vanilla ice cream left."  When he looked in the freezer there was some ice cream and it was almost vanilla - it was white with little brown pieces of chocolate in it. So the ghost said, "This shouldn't hurt me - those pieces of  chocolate are so tiny." So he ate one spoonful and became a chocolate chip ghost! He certainly  didn't want his Mama to see him spotted so he ran upstairs and hid in the bathtub. When Mama ghost returned, she knew something was wrong when she didn't see her children, so she started looking for the little ghosts.  She found the first (purple) one upstairs in the toy box, and an 2nd (orange) one in the closet, and the 3rd (green) one under the bed, the 4th (red) one behind the door and the 5th and last (chocolate chip) one in the bathtub. When she found all of them, she said, "Little ghosts, I told you that something dreadful would happen and it did." Whatever can we do to get you white again for Halloween? She called the ghost doctor and this is  what he told her to do. Keep all the little ghosts in bed for five days and give them nothing but vanilla  ice cream and milk and they should be ready for Halloween. So that is what she did and by Halloween night, the five little ghosts were all white again to go out haunting and spooking and shouting "BOO!" And they never again ate something they shouldn't.