# Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 30, 2002, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605 "2002-12-30T03:51:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/21 "2002-12-30T16:08:30Z")
Another Bertie Bott’s victim checking in. The Tzeroling got a package from a cousin in RI and we spent about fifteen minutes classifying them and then daring each other to eat the nasty ones. I don’t remember getting an earwax one, but I gotta agree - the vomit one was NASTY. Swallowed it anyway - hey, it’s a Jelly Belly! You don’t waste those. I dug the grass and dirt ones though - if you could get the individual flavors in bulk I’d mix a bowl of grass and dirt ones for my desk here at work. Nothing spectacularly cruel, but a hoot nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/22 "2002-12-30T16:20:31Z")
Although you can’t order the individual flavors, you can buy these beans [here](http://www.jellybelly.com/shop/Category.html?catalog%5Fname=JellyBellyB2C&category%5Fname=ld%5FBertie%5FBotts&Page=). You can also order 1 kg bags of any particular flavor, and I’m seriously considering getting some Jalapeno ones–I love those things, and they’re hard to find. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/23 "2002-12-30T16:47:48Z")
Oh, yeah. Tried them. Agree with ultrafilter. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/24 "2002-12-30T18:12:03Z")
I LOVE the pepper flavored ones. If I could buy a ten-pound bag of just the pepper ones, I would. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/25 "2002-12-30T18:16:49Z")
Ugh! I just bought some of these today… actually because I read this thread, I guess I have masochistic tendencies. 😉 I got up the courage to try the sardine one. My thoughts were something like: “okay, this isn’t too bad, a little swe…OH MY GOD IT’S FISH EW EW EW EW EW!” Then I grabbed a bean I _ **THOUGHT** _ was Tutti-Fruitti, since it was mottled pink and red, but _ **it was a god-damn vomit one!!!** _ Good God! I actually started gagging when I was spitting it out, and of course a stupid piece stuck to my tooth! ☹ So I had a banana-flavoured one to make up for it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/26 "2002-12-30T18:37:14Z")
My nephew and my cousin’s daughter kept trying to get us to take a bean at our Christmas dinner get-together. I guess it’s a measure of how _old_ I have become, but I wouldn’t try the vomit or the earwax. I think theirs came from Jelly Belly. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/27 "2002-12-30T19:04:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Three or four weeks ago the wife and I paid a visit to the Jelly Belly plant. My wife and I have that on our agenda for a late January trip to Northern California. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/28 "2002-12-30T19:41:48Z")
I’m vaguely curious as to how they researched these flavors. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/29 "2002-12-30T22:08:52Z")
I think it’s hilarious that you people have tried these horrible things, just so you can say, “Yep, it takes like vomit, all right…” _blurgh_ ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/30 "2002-12-30T22:14:26Z")
I’m vaguely curious how much their taste testers got paid for testing those nasty ones. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/31 "2002-12-31T02:45:18Z")
I got a small box for each of my five heathens and it was a riot listening to them trying to get each other to taste the nasty ones. I got them in the produce department at Super Target. Just small boxes though and they were a bit on the expensive side for how small they were, but the heathens had a ton of fun with them so it was worth it. Just might have to suprise them and do it for them again. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/32 "2002-12-31T03:22:21Z")
we got ours at Target, too. Let me tell you something about that chart… it isn’t always accurate. Be warned! some flavours are disguised. Also, some flavors are not listed. In addition to vomit, booger, et al, you will find: pizza (it tastes greesey and cheesey and so not good in a jelly bean) garlic (STRONG!) mustard I have heard rumours of salt flavoured. blah!!! we play jelly bean roulette with them too, except we demand to see the chewed bean. It’s all too easy to swallow without tasting… ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/33 "2002-12-31T03:41:56Z")
The boss brought some into work about a while back, and we were all trying them out. Vomit and Earwax weren’t as bad as I was expecting. I swallowed them without problem. Pepper was actually pretty good. Sardine is evil. The taste of fish oil is overwhelming. Every one of us who tried one ended up spitting it into the garbage. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/34 "2002-12-31T03:53:48Z")
I’m proud to say that I did chew up and swallow a sardine one a little later one. Why, I’m not sure. But I did it! ---
**Author:** ![zia\_nova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/bc79bd/32.png) [@zia\_nova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zia_nova)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/35 "2002-12-31T06:19:13Z")
I’m sorry, I couldn’t help but wonder as I was reading this: you guys _PAID_ to put vomit, sardine and earwax flavoured sweets in your mouth?! What the hell is _wrong_ with you poeple?!?!?! Honestly! …_slowly sneaks out in search of her own Beartie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans_ Oh, and **Hastur** …GROSS! EUW! EUW! NO! HOW COULD YOU?? EUW! ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/36 "2002-12-31T06:38:48Z")
Ok, so on a dare my brother did the roulette thing with two of them. He got sardine and vomit together. The looks on his face were, to put it simply, a “laff riot!”. I fear he’s going to do something to me in my sleep now, however. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/37 "2002-12-31T07:33:26Z")
What layovers will do to you…as well as a pair of 12-year-old girls…That’s how I was acquainted with these vile 'beans. ---
**Author:** ![kevlaw](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kevlaw/32/2281_2.png) [@kevlaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevlaw)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/38 "2002-12-31T07:33:48Z")
I ate a whole packet because my kids wouldn’t touch them and I can’t bear to throw candy away. I didn’t have the flavor guide so I was trying to guess the flavors. I correctly identified the vomit and ear wax. But sardine … ahhh - I thought it might’ve been smoked salmon. They were all pretty disgusting tho. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/39 "2002-12-31T08:08:15Z")
…Good thing I didn’t step in it. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605/40 "2002-12-31T13:38:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by zweisamkeit \* > Then I grabbed a bean I _ **THOUGHT** _ was Tutti-Fruitti, since it was mottled pink and red, but _ **it was a god-damn vomit one!!!** _ Good God! My nephew had a box of these, and I asked for one (having never seen or read Harry Potter). I should have realized from the giggling grin on his face that I was stepping into a clever trap. Of course, I was also attracted to the pretty colors of the vomit-flavored bean. I got a few good chews in before I began to realize that something was very wrong. I spit it out, tried to wash the slime from my mouth with little success, and then read the box while the evil child laughed his ass off. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/145605.md?page=3)