CRAYON 9: Have Your Favorite Jelly Bean

When it comes to Jelly Belly's I have two favorites.  Its not that I dislike the other flavors, but instead I just have a favorite like many of you must.  It started on the Holidays when my parents through logical deduction found that I sifted through the entire pack of assorted flavors to pull out only two kinds of jelly beans.  The two flavors that I still go cookoo for Coco-Puffs on would be Water Mellon and Bubble Gum.

 

I love the flavor of Watermelon as a jelly bean, it just tastes perfect and I love to bite into the green bean to find the red center.  Simple but pleasing for me.  Bubble gum...hmmmm remind you of a recent post?  Yes I love the Jelly Belly bubble gum flavor.  Any time you see me in a candy store, I am almost always filling a plastic bag with green and pink beans.  My only regret is I tend to eat too many in one sitting, and asking my stomach to digest a lump of sugar.

Everyone seems to have their favorites when it comes to this sugary bean of joy.  Ronald Reagan was known to have a bowl of jelly beans on the Oval Office desk and in cabinet meetings.  Many have said that he sifted through to get the cherry jelly beans.  Then there is a great scene in which Nicholas Cage wanted his favorite jelly beans showcased as a quirky "beverage of choice" in the movie Ghost Rider.  Cage had,what looked to be lemon and cherry, jelly beans in a martini glass at his home for when he came wanted to sit back and relax.  Now that's my kind of martini.  Then there are the horror stories of celebrities and rockers in the past, before single flavor bundling, asking for hundreds of one flavor to be pulled out of the mix and put into one glass bowl.  Oh those poor roadies.

 

 

  There are two other kinds of Jelly Beans I love to eat.  One is mixing beans to make flavor profiles that are as close to getting a chance to being at Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.  I mean who doesn't want to know if the Schnozz berries taste like schnozz berries?

The other I love to eat...well more like eat, share and laugh with are the Harry Potter Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Bean.  With flavors like soap, sardine, grass, dirt, ear wax, and earth worm...the best part of the game is eating them with out matching the flavor to the color.  Jelly Belly was smart enough to put some pleasant flavors in the back that are the same color as the not so pleasant flavors.  Hmmm is going to be cream soda...or is it going to be ear way?

 

I assure you they taste like their names and it is more than fun to watch others squirm and squeal.  If you do not want to play along, then leave a bowl of them on your desk.  You know the candy hounds that can smell sugar, or hear a wrapper crinkle for 90 yards.  Enjoy and have fun.  Check out some of the jelly bean fun below and tell me what your favorites are in the comments.

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The Jelly Belly Company had art commissioned using their beans.  They hang at their headquarters.

 

 

Yes below is a Jelly Belly Colgne.