Harry Potter "Bertie Bott's everyflavor beans" by Jelly Belly

[capybara]

Oh my God. This is a riot. I grabbed a box of these for my husband on a lark, as he's a Harry Potter dweeb: on the back it has the usual color coding chart, but including things like 'dirt', 'spaghetti', 'sardine', 'vomit', 'booger.'

So far I've tried the dirt, black pepper, and spaghetti ones. I assumed that they'd taken the usual flavors and colors and made entertaining packaging. Oh, no.
They taste EXACTLY as they are described, after the initial sweet taste. I am very impressed. I mean, a dirt-flavored jelly bean. Yay!
Oh, my. Sardine. Ew.

[Cyn]

I actually like the grass ones....
I'm not okay. I admit that....

[Sunspace]

Wait till you get an earwax one.

BTW, it's "Bertie Botts' Every Flavour Beans". Unless the US packaging differs?

[capybara]

I don't think the box I got has any earwax, soap, or vomit flavored ones. I am unsure about snot. I'm disappointed. I must stock up on these, though.

[capybara]

Hmm. I just hit something that tasted like bubblegum, which isn't listed on the box. If they're sorted and boxed randomly/statistically with some mistakes, I bet someone out there has just eaten an earwax bean unexpectedly.

[Queen Bruin]

I think they're interspersed with "good" flavours.

[Fionn]

I really liked the pepper flavor.

[vivalostwages]

I spat out the dirt one and refused to try booger or vomit. I think I made it through most of the others, though. Grass wasn't so bad.

[FyreFiend]

Originally Posted by Fionn

I really liked the pepper flavor.

Ditto.
If they sold them by flavor I'd be even fatter then I am

[Pullet]

If you're a salt freak, the sardine one will tickle you.
For anyone who hasn't seen these in the flesh, here's the internet link
Sadly, they don't include the Everyflavors in their list of official flavors. Although I don't know why jalapeno is for the normals.

And yes, the booger one does taste authentic. No, I won't explain how I know this.

[Sophistry and Illusion]

Originally Posted by Pullet

And yes, the booger one does taste authentic. No, I won't explain how I know this.

You know, some kids grow up thinking that being an ice cream or candy taster would be the ideal job. Little do they know...

[missdavis102]

I took a box of these to work a while back, along with a bag of the regular ones, or maybe the sours, I don't know. Anyway, I mixed them together and shared them with my co-workers, and it was a laugh riot. I did tell them what I'd done as soon as someone got the first gross one. We spent the night nibbling our way through corners of them and laughing at each others' reactions.

I liked the grass one, too - it's surprisingly good. Actually the earwax wasn't bad either.

I'm not sure what the deal is with the spaghetti and vomit flavors - they are both disugusting. The vomit one in particular has a real gastric acid odor that emanates from it before it even gets to your mouth. Just sniffing it made me want to vomit, and I'm a nurse, fercryinoutloud. Avoid the vomit flavored ones at all costs!

I have a new box in my car, must play with them soon.

[Dragwyr]

It doesn't surprise me that they would get on the Harry Potter band wagon since they have been doing this for such a long time. Jelly Belly has been making unusually flavored jelly beans for at least 15 years. I distinctly remember nearly heaving my guts out when I got a popcorn flavored one. Absolutely rancid, it was!

[DeVena]

Originally Posted by FyreFiend

Ditto.
If they sold them by flavor I'd be even fatter then I am

Not black pepper, but you can get jalapeno, and they're pretty darn tasty too.

[ultrafilter]

Originally Posted by Dragwyr

It doesn't surprise me that they would get on the Harry Potter band wagon since they have been doing this for such a long time. Jelly Belly has been making unusually flavored jelly beans for at least 15 years. I distinctly remember nearly heaving my guts out when I got a popcorn flavored one. Absolutely rancid, it was!

These have been around for at least a couple years. I posted a story about trying a sardine one right before book 5 was released.

[Morelin]

They just came out with two new flavors for the new book. I believe one of the two was rotten eggs. I can't remember the other one, but it was equally nasty sounding.

[Daithi Lacha]

Originally Posted by Morelin

They just came out with two new flavors for the new book. I believe one of the two was rotten eggs. I can't remember the other one, but it was equally nasty sounding.

"Earthworm," I believe.

[Pullet]

Originally Posted by Dragwyr

I distinctly remember nearly heaving my guts out when I got a popcorn flavored one. Absolutely rancid, it was!

That's one of their most popular flavors! I love them when I have a taste for popcorn, but no floss. They even mimiced the dry texture of popcorn in the middle.

Now I want candy and popcorn. That's a good breakfast combo, right??

[Kythereia]

Where can a girl of good cash standings find a package of these in Toronto?

[Pullet]

I've seen them in all the dedicated candy stores. The old-fashioned kind where all they sell is candy. Also, there's always the website.

[flamingbananas]

Some of the flavours taste like hose water, though I don't think it's supposed to... I had a box a while back and gave my brother a vomit one pretending it was another kind. Boy did he yell! After he stopped gagging, of course.

[Pullet]

Damn it, flamingbananas! Between this thread and your screenname, I'm starving!!

[Dogzilla]

I bought a couple bags for our group when we all went to see the last HP movie. I found a vomit flavored bean about half way through the movie. Seeing as how I was sitting in the dark... and couldn't tell what color I held in my hands... I quit eating them.

: Shudder :

[zweisamkeit]

God, the vomit ones are beyond horrible. I had one and I immediately had my gag reflex kick in; I almost barfed up everything I'd eaten that day.

The dastardly part is that they look similar enough to Tutti Fruitti (which I like).

[Pullet]

What's this bean? Looks like my favorite flavor.
Color's nice. Perhaps something I'll savor.
The other beans were nice.
Oh heck, I'll roll the dice.
What can happen? Shoot, it's only candy.

Evil Vomit Bean!!
Evil Vomit Bean!!

Bertie Bott's I'll curse your name forever!

To the tune of "Secret Angent Man" by Jonny Rivers

[Morelin]

Originally Posted by Daithi Lacha

"Earthworm," I believe.

Nope. Bacon.

[Sunspace]

Originally Posted by Morelin

Nope. Bacon.

Wait. Don't those taste the same?

I kind of like the pepper and grass-flavoured ones. However, I'm glad to say I never enountered a vomit-flavoured one.

[Guinastasia]

Can't let this pass without a quote from the greatest wizard of our time:

"Ah! Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans! I was unfortunate enough in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one, and since then I'm afraid I've rather lost my liking for them-but I think I'll be safe with a nice toffee don't you?
"Alas! Ear wax!"
-Albus Dumbledore

[Mama Zappa]

Originally Posted by Sunspace

Wait. Don't those taste the same?

Depends on how you salt and cure the earthworm.

What I'd like to know is just how they know what things like dirt or soap taste like. Or worse, how they know they've gotten the taste of booger or vomit correct. I mean, presumably those are sorta subject and vary from person to person, or based on what that person has been eating / breathing.... I pity the poor flavor developer who had to come up with a consensus (and hope s/he didn't have to conduct multiple samplings )

I tried EFBs once or twice then decided the bad tasting ones outweighed the good tasting ones too heavily and it was just a waste of money. Now I go to the "mix your own" stand at the grocery store and get large quantities of the flavors I *do* like

Buttered popcorn ain't among them. That variety is Satan's Jizz, dried / formed and coated with an evil deceptive candy coating.

[Lute Skywatcher]

Originally Posted by Pullet

Although I don't know why jalapeno is for the normals.

It predates Harry Potter.

Originally Posted by Mama Zappa

What I'd like to know is just how they know what things like dirt or soap taste like. Or worse, how they know they've gotten the taste of booger or vomit correct.

Vomit was an accident. The folks at Jelly Belly tried to make a pizza-flavored bean some years ago and came up with that instead. Bertie Bott's gave them an excuse to use it.