# I don't want to eat these Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 20, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698 "2003-03-20T02:06:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/1 "2003-03-20T02:06:51Z")
My kids are eating them making disgusted faces and noises. Would you eat vomit, dirt and booger flavored jellybeans?
“Oh my God! It taste like they poured dirt into the box!”
Nope, not eating them. Do you want them?
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### Author:  [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/2 "2003-03-20T02:21:25Z")
No thank you. My darling daughter slipped me a black pepper bean a few months back and I still haven’t recovered. Like a mistreated puppy, I no longer take any food from the hand that once tricked me.
I do want to talk to the guys who taste-tested these though. “No, not QUITE boogery enough. It needs… something.”
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### Author:  [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/3 "2003-03-20T02:30:49Z")
I rather liked the booger ones, along with the grass flavoured ones. I wasn’t too fond of the horseradish or the black pepper. Haven’t seen any vomit o dirt yet. ::shrug::
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### Author:  [@Severian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Severian)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/4 "2003-03-20T02:32:21Z")
You forgot earwax, sardine, spinach, and grass.
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### Author:  [@Spacegirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spacegirl)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/5 "2003-03-20T03:23:30Z")
Just reading this thread makes my stomach turn. Yuck!
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/6 "2003-03-20T03:34:39Z")
Goddam that’s gross. I’ll have to keep an eye out for these things!
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/7 "2003-03-20T03:43:39Z")
The sardine one wasn’t too bad to me. None of them really set me off except the vomit ones. Damn, those are bad. Once you bite into it, you can taste it all the way up your nasal passages.
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### Author:  [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/8 "2003-03-20T03:53:58Z")
I kinda liked the pepper ones.
Don’t think I’ve encountered the booger flavored ones, though…
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### Author:  [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/9 "2003-03-20T04:42:42Z")
I agree with **Biggirl**. I just don’t see the appeal. Isn’t candy supposed to taste _good_?
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### Author:  [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/10 "2003-03-20T05:42:19Z")
I really liked the grass-flavored ones. The dirt flavored ones were really realistic, but the vomit ones…I couldn’t even swallow it!
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### Author:  [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/11 "2003-03-20T12:34:59Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Max Torque \*
> \*\*None of them really set me off except the vomit ones. Damn, those are bad. Once you bite into it, you can taste it all the way up your nasal passages. \*\*
Before I knew what these things were, my evil nephew offered me some jelly beans. I poured some of the Jelly Belly’s in my hand and immediately selected the most attractive, pretty, bean – probably tutti frutti. It was the **vomit** one. The taste is difficult to remove. It was worth it to see the joy in his face, though.
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### Author:  [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/12 "2003-03-20T14:03:21Z")
Please tell me ALL of the above is just a joke and I’m being whooshed. I mean, I read the books, but they wouldn’t really make _vomit_ flavored candy, would they?
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### Author:  [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/13 "2003-03-20T14:30:31Z")
They would, and they do. Precisely why I won’t eat them.
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### Author:  [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/14 "2003-03-20T14:53:07Z")
\*\*peri\*Indeed they do,as a Harry Potter marketing thing. I (a huge HP fan myself)recieved a box of these wonderful concotions along with a boxed set of the HP books for Christmas last year. I dutifully (and to the disgust of family members all 'round)ate every last one. I ate the vomit (which was QUITE disgusting),the earwax, the sardine,dirt,black pepper,booger and grass ones. I ate the funny pink one that tasted like…well…a cross between what I imagine cotton candy and human uterus would taste like.And I grinned throughout, just knowing I’d managed to gross out my sister-in-law Jessica who considers herself a real gourmand/princess-in-training.
IDBB
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### Author:  [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/15 "2003-03-20T15:10:02Z")
I quite like the black pepper and horseradish ones. The grass-flavored isn’t bad either. I haven’t eaten any of the vomit-flavored ones; my instincts led me to trick my nephew into eating one instead, and his horrified expression and the projectile darting toward the trash can confirmed my hunch.
I’m such a bad uncle. 🙂
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### Author:  [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/16 "2003-03-20T17:41:41Z")
I really like the buttered-toast ones. I wish Jelly Belly made that flavor available in the bulk-candy bins at the store.
**d\_redguy** and I have gotten pretty good at identifying the “off” flavors. We tried _most_ of them once, although there is NO WAY I am eating vomit or boogers. Now we just save all the icky ones in a bowl and offer them to company as jelly beans.
No one comes over anymore…
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/17 "2003-03-20T17:48:41Z")
I bought a box at Borders the other day, because I couldn’t stop myself. But I haven’t eaten them. I’m afraid to. I’m thinking of brining them to work and giving them to my coworker.
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### Author:  [@Engywook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engywook)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/18 "2003-03-20T18:00:57Z")
Is it just me, or is it disturbing that they use resources and energy to make and distribute a candy where:
- people eat half the box
- then, after surprising a few people, throw the rest away
?
Strikes me as an unconscionable waste, even if people are paying for it…
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### Author:  [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/19 "2003-03-20T18:02:11Z")
I don’t think I’ve had the sardine one, but damn if they didn’t nail dirt and grass. I kinda dug the black pepper one, and I suspect I’d like the horseradish one as well. The Tzeroling and I split the only vomit-flavored bean in the box and it was truly horrible.
And _don’t_ get me started on the booger-flavored beans! They taste _nothing_ like a b-- uh, wow, look over there! A stick!
_runs away really fast_
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### Author:  [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/20 "2003-03-20T18:08:21Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Engywook \*
> \*\*Is it just me, or is it disturbing that they use resources and energy to make and distribute a candy where:
>
> - people eat half the box… \*\*
Once you’ve bought it, the manufactures don’t care if you eat it or not. Maybe they think you’re sharing with your friends, or something.
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