# 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:** 16
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/21 "2003-03-20T18:21:12Z")
I can’t believe I’m reading this thread. No wonder America’s youth is walking around with an addled look on its collective face. This is beyond grossening.
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### Author:  [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/22 "2003-03-20T18:35:35Z")
Those “Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans” never seemed like a good business idea in those Harry Potter books. I mean, you’d except that “Gertie Gott’s Every Flavor Except Crap And Many Other Flavors Beans” would sell a lot more, and they can’t be that much harder to magic up.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/23 "2003-03-20T18:42:35Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Kyla \*
> \*\*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. \*\*
This is exactly my story, except I didn’t get mine at Borders.
I am very, very afraid of the jelly beans.
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### Author:  [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/24 "2003-03-20T19:08:28Z")
I wonder why they don’t make a crap-flavored one?? That’s about as gross as a vomit-flavored one.
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### Author:  [@Thinks2Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinks2Much)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/25 "2003-03-20T19:30:23Z")
If you think you have a bad job, imagine being the aste tester to figure out if you got the flavor just right for these things!
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### Author:  [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/26 "2003-03-20T20:19:27Z")
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> \*Originally posted by hyperjes \*
> I really like the buttered-toast ones. I wish Jelly Belly made that flavor available in the bulk-candy bins at the store.
The buttered toast might actually make it as a mainstream flavor. It’s tasty enough, and they already have buttered popcorn (which I really like).
Of course, I’m the guy who used to keep a bowl of Tabasco-flavored Jelly-Bellies on his desk.
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### Author:  [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/27 "2003-03-20T20:33:40Z")
Jelly Belly does market a separate toast flavor. I purchased a scoop-full at a candy store at the South Portland, Maine mall this past summer. I can’t remember whether it was buttered toast or cinnamon toast, but it was very good.
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### Author:  [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/28 "2003-03-20T23:00:40Z")
Ah, this reminds me of Christmas. I watched two guys eat all the icky-flavored jellybeans out of a box a friend got for a present, all the while talking about how nasty they were and offering them to others who would gladly accept and then promptly run over to the garbage can and spit out. Obviously some sort of macho teenage guy rite of passage.
I looked at the labeled pictures of the beans on the sides of the box and chose accordingly. Probably not as fun…
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### Author:  [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/29 "2003-03-20T23:49:14Z")
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> \*Originally posted by JessEnigma \*
> \*\*Ah, this reminds me of Christmas. I watched two guys eat all the icky-flavored jellybeans out of a box a friend got for a present, all the while talking about how nasty they were and offering them to others who would gladly accept and then promptly run over to the garbage can and spit out. Obviously some sort of macho teenage guy rite of passage.
> \*\*
“OMG, this is so gross…you have to try it!”\*
\*OK, I confess, I’ve said it too. And I’m female.
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### Author:  [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/30 "2003-03-21T02:57:35Z")
The black pepper ones are GOOOOOOOOOD! That should definitely be a mainstream flavor.
Grass has a strange appeal, as does dirt.
The only one I had to spit out was the vomit one. The sardine ones are pretty gross, too, though. Fish + Sweet = Bleah!
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### Author:  [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/31 "2003-03-21T03:27:25Z")
Ugh, I accidentally picked a vomit one once. I actually had gag reflexes kick in after tasting the bile-like flavour! ☹
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### Author:  [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/32 "2003-03-24T13:49:55Z")
I must say, I was rather impressed with how realistic they made the vomit ones taste. I popped it in my mouth and thought “now that really tastes like vomit.” For those who haven’t gotten up the courage, it’s not just a foul taste, it really resembles vomit.
The same is true for the grass & dirt. You take a bite and go “well, that’s dirt all right!”
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> 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?
YES! In fact, I’m working on a new drinking game that involves a shot of tequila and a vomit flavored bean.
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### Author:  [@auRa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auRa)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/33 "2003-03-24T16:40:01Z")
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> \*Originally posted by lost4life \*
> \*\*YES! In fact, I’m working on a new drinking game that involves a shot of tequila and a vomit flavored bean. \*\*
Oooh, I’m never coming over for a drink at your house…:eek:
Pre-Pubescent Dr. Demento bought a box a while back and spent a good three hours trying to convince me to try all the lovely flavors. The fool! I just kept on picking out the ones I knew weren’t anything nasty.
Funny, isn’t it? Most of the time, IMHO, jelly beans taste nothing like what they’re supposed to be… Same for pretty much all artificially flavored candies. At least they’re putting in the effort of really getting authentic flavors. 😃
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/34 "2003-03-24T17:00:38Z")
I wonder if other Jelly Bean companies will sue. I know I would if somebody started making a product that looked like mine & went by the same name but tasted like puke. I know that I will never again eat another jelly bean for as long as I live if there is a chance that it could be puke flavored.
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### Author:  [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/35 "2003-03-24T18:55:20Z")
😕 The puke-flavored ones have a distinct color pattern, as do all other Jelly Belly jellybeans. There is a flavor chart on the back of the bag so that you know which ones to avoid if necessary.
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### Author:  [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-eat-these-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans/162698/36 "2003-03-25T01:30:45Z")
I shared mine with my (high school) students today. Besides being disappointed that there were no horseradish flavored beans, a good time was had by all. The looks on their faces, the squeels and giggles! Not going to try the vomit flavored ones though, nope, nope, nope.
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