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Dec. 19th, 2001 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaobellToday I gave in to the great commercial beast and bought myself a bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans.
For those of you not familiar with these, they're a popular candy among folks in the Harry Potter books. Basically, they're Jelly Bellys. But when they say "every flavor," they mean every flavor. Normal stuff like chocolate and pear and apple, and then there's the other flavors. Sardine. Ear wax. Booger.
So, here in the real world, they sell these things. And while they're not every flavor, there's a pretty diverse assortment. Including some of the aforementioned undesirables (sardine and booger, particularly).
The problem? Some of the "undesirables" look an awful lot like some of the good flavors in the little guide that comes with the beans. I found myself holding a green bean with black spots and a green bean with brown spots and wondering which was pear and which was booger.
So, I did the only thing I could do: nibbled.
Green w/black spots = pear. Okay. But that left a green-with-brown-spots bean sitting in my hand.
Come on, now, my brain wheedled, they wouldn't make it all that nasty, would they? It's probably some weird fruity flavor. Go on. Have a nibble.
BLAAH.PTOOEY!
The sardine bean got roughly the same treatment. Eye. Nibble. Make face. Spit into trash can.
I do not know if it was really booger-flavored or not; I do, however know that it was nasty. Really nasty.
I have set the booger and sardine beans aside to feed ex-Mate.
For those of you not familiar with these, they're a popular candy among folks in the Harry Potter books. Basically, they're Jelly Bellys. But when they say "every flavor," they mean every flavor. Normal stuff like chocolate and pear and apple, and then there's the other flavors. Sardine. Ear wax. Booger.
So, here in the real world, they sell these things. And while they're not every flavor, there's a pretty diverse assortment. Including some of the aforementioned undesirables (sardine and booger, particularly).
The problem? Some of the "undesirables" look an awful lot like some of the good flavors in the little guide that comes with the beans. I found myself holding a green bean with black spots and a green bean with brown spots and wondering which was pear and which was booger.
So, I did the only thing I could do: nibbled.
Green w/black spots = pear. Okay. But that left a green-with-brown-spots bean sitting in my hand.
Come on, now, my brain wheedled, they wouldn't make it all that nasty, would they? It's probably some weird fruity flavor. Go on. Have a nibble.
BLAAH.PTOOEY!
The sardine bean got roughly the same treatment. Eye. Nibble. Make face. Spit into trash can.
I do not know if it was really booger-flavored or not; I do, however know that it was nasty. Really nasty.
I have set the booger and sardine beans aside to feed ex-Mate.
