In this family, we know our JellyBellys. This is a blue bag of JellyBellys, and having NO previous knowledge of the characteristics of a Harry Potter item, was unaware of what I was about to experience. Innocently enough I popped three of these colorful beans in my mouth and began to chew. OH…MY! I ran to the sink in the kitchen from the living room, my stomach lurching and the taste in my mouth getting more intense by the millisecond. I couldn’t imagine a more discusting taste. WHAT ARE THE FLAVORS IN THAT BAG. It all became perfectly clear as I read the label (should have done that before the tasting began). In alphabetical order the following flavors are: Black Pepper, Blueberry, Booger, Buttered popcorn, Dirt, Earthworm, Earwax, Grape Jelly, Grass, Pickle, Lemon Drop, Sardine, Sizzling Cinnamon, Soap, Sausage, Rotten Egg, Toasted Marshmellow, Tutti-Fruitti, Very Cherry, and last but by no means least, VOMMIT. I am wondering just what three I mixed together………Oh! the thought of it!!
JellyBellys are a game at our house. We all sit around the table, each person getting a small handful (around ten) of JBs, and the tasting begins. It is required that you examine your JB and note color, then it’s chewed and swallowed before announcing the flavor you think it is. The flavor chart is consulted and we move on to the next person. Eight yr. olds love this game! A minor version of Fear Factor. We also like making up our own “recipes” by combining flavors. The Bertie Botts every flavor Beans takes this game playing to a whole new level.
After the initial shock wore off, here are some of the combinations we came up with from the Bertie Botts batch of beans:
Sausage, Rotten Egg, & Grape Jelly…….Harry Potter Breakfast Flavor
Booger, Soap, Vommit, & Lemon Drop……The common Cold Flavor
Earthworm, Grass, & Dirt………Garden Flavor
Pickle, Toasted Marshmellow, & Tutti-Fruitti……….Pregnant Flavor
Sizzling Cinnamon, Black Pepper, & Sardine…..Blackened Fish Flavor
Vommit, Sausage, & Rotten Egg……..Morning Sickness Flavor (The worst !)
Booger, Grass & Dirt……2 yr old Flavor…could be 8yr old Flavor too.
None of these combos have been ingested..or maybe they have, come to think of it.
Come PLAY along. Send me a comment with your flavor combo. I will post the best of the bunch.
By the way, the folks at JellyBelly in California are sending out a box of 50 flavors to my household. I mentioned to them via phone how sick we all got last night playing Fear Factor style with the Bertie Botts batch of JBs. Some of us were too queasy to eat Birthday cake. The 8 yr old, turned 9, hated the Booger flavor which was saying something when he eats his own on occasion. I wouldn’t recommend ANY small child eating any of the flavors except the fruit ones. These are INTENCE flavors. The Black Pepper is like eating a solid teaspoon of pepper, and the Soap is like eating REAL SOAP.
Christmas sock on needles, just turned the heel, heading into the home stretch.
The International Scarf Exchange 5 is still accepting applications. Head on over to www.ise5.com and sign up fast. Hope to see you there………..and watch what you eat, ya just never know…….
3 Comments
September 12, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Oh, Marcia, I laughed harder and harder through this post till I about wet my pants at the combos! I called over my 9-year-old who giggled in my ear (I have to let my 12-year-old finish her homework before I can distract her).
I tasted Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans in their first incarnation, but they didn’t have all those flavors then. They did have vomit and boogers, dirt, pepper and sardines, though. My father liked pepper and sardines. My younger daughter liked grass! Somebody liked earwax, but I can’t recall who. No one liked vomit, needless to say, that one’s truly disgusting.
Let’s see, some combos:
Toasted marshmallow and dirt — campfire flavor
Very cherry, earthworm, grass and dirt — windfall fruit flavor
Dirt, earwax and soap — wash behind your ears flavor
Black pepper, sizzling cinnamon, and soap — “I can’t believe the words that just came out of your mouth!” flavor
Rotten egg and dirt — Yellowstone flavor (that’s all the kids profess to remember about Yellowstone, the smell)
Earthworms, dirt, toasted marshmallow — “How To Eat Fried Worms” flavor
Buttered popcorn, lemon drop and dirt — movie theatre floor flavor
I seem to be obsessed with soap and dirt; what can I say, I’m a mom and a doctor.
Thanks for the laugh, and for being the Mistress of the Box — awesome job, wow!
September 14, 2007 at 11:41 am
Oh how fun! A couple years ago, the Cove, J, and K and I had a rollicky time sampling each type of charting what each of us thought of each flavor. I don’t think we’ve ever laughed so much. Never thought of coming up with different flavor combinations like you did. Maybe we’ll try that next time. Thanks for sharing!
September 15, 2007 at 11:55 am
Boy did I laugh! I don’t eat jelly bellys but I have a great imagination……Sis, I just love your blogs and can’t wait to read them. Love Ya, keep up the good fun.