So ever since The Impulsive Buy mentioned Harry Potter Bertie Bott’s Beans, I’ve been on the the lookout for them. The idea seemed intriguing—take normal Jelly Belly brand jellybeans and mix in a few “exotic” flavors.
Oddly, the normal flavors like cherry, blueberry, and lemon drop were kind of boring. A few of the gross-out flavors like soap, bacon, black pepper, earwax, and earthworm were somewhat tolerable even though they unquestionably tasted like sweetened versions of their namesakes.
However, sardine was almost inedible, and rotten egg and booger were completely inedible. I had to spit them out and quickly find something to wash away the flavor, but the aftertaste lingered. There weren’t any of the vomit-flavored beans, though, in the boxes I got. Oh, darn.
My mom gave those to my brother and I for Christmas the first year they came out, long before everyone knew what they really tasted like. We all thought (well, my mom was cruel enough to know and not tell us!) they were regular tasting, and since I’m not a JB fan I didn’t eat them, but I’ll never forget the look on my brother’s face when he ate his first one!!!
I explained to everyone what they were before I gave them the box, but I imagine that these could be fun to use as a prank.
Um, ewwwwwwww…rotten eggs? That is just wrong in so many ways!
Very, very wrong. Just the thought of the Rotten Egg ones makes me gag. This is one package of candy I can be guaranteed to not down in a single sitting—unlike, say, COFFEE KitKats!
One of them tasted like big foot’s girlfriend’s butt after he’s had sex with her.