Two Waco, Texas, TV stations found themselves competing for more than ratings when a local restaurant mixed up their delivery orders.

Luby's was charged with the task of delivering food to KWTX-TV and KXXV-TV on Thanksgiving, but in the midst of the hectic holiday rush the broccoli and cheese casserole requested by KWTX staffers was delivered to KXXV instead, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported Tuesday.

"We were laughing about it because we got their broccoli and cheese casserole and they got our yams," KXXV news director Dennis Kinney said.

However, KXXV's yams never made it to KWTX. The second station was left without any food at all until Luby's noticed the mix-up and whipped up a second casserole for the holiday-shift workers.

"Those poor people at Luby's," KWTX news director Katherine Iglesias said. "If you've ever been there on Thanksgiving, the place is a madhouse ... We could all skip a meal just fine. (Luby's) did a wonderful job. So Happy Thanksgiving to the people over at Channel 25 (KXXV)."  // Copyright 2007 by United Press International



Publication date: 28 November 2007   

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