Well, they weren’t hiding really, I’d heard of them for awhile. But I just had these for the first time a few weeks ago and am wondering how the heck I haven’t ever tried them before. I loved them. Ran out just to pick up a four pound jar.
There are currently 50 official flavors and 11 rookie/test ones out right now and some, hell, most are downright delicious. And I’m a person who didn’t particularly care for jellybeans. But JellyBelly beans are just amazing.
I like most all of them…but ones I really really love are orange juice, very cherry, kiwi, strawberry cheesecake, strawberry jam, and mango.
Any agreements on the yumminess of these flavors? Any sharings of other favorite flavors?
Oh, and if you’ve never tried these things before, you really should. Even if you don’t care for jellybeans, cause trust me, I didn’t really like any jellybeans I’ve had/tried up until this point either. Jellybelly beans just seem to take the cake though.
Sometimes they’ll come with a recipe card, and tell you how to combine flavors to make new flavors. I don’t recall how it works, but I had some in my house a few weeks back and a friend spent many an hour sorting them and then making new taste combos.
Most “health” food stores, like Whole Foods, or Central Market, have a bulk foods section and candies are generally represented there. The candy store at the local mall may well have Jelly Bellies in bulk. The fabulous chocolate shop near where I went to college(and still only about an hour away) had them in bulk bins so you could build your own assortment of your own favorite flavors. IIRC they had about fifty or sixty flavors, I can’t remember the arrangement of the bins, but there were five or six rows of gallon-sized bins about eight to ten bins wide. Took up the better part of one of the walls. I always liked to pop a couple different flavors while strolling through the store, they allowed sampling of everything, but had signs that “one sample is ample.” For those craving more Jelly Belly goodness, this website should set you up. Fifty flavors, available individually, or as mixes. Individual flavors can be purchased in quantities ranging from 1/2 lb. to 10 lbs. if you REALLY love a particular flavor.
I’m not much of a jellybean person, although Jelly Bellies are pretty much cream of the crop. Other jellybeans I’ve tried have been more turnoffs than anything else. I was very pleased that Jelly Belly is the company making the “Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans” candies they put out whenever a new Harry Potter book or movie comes around. It makes the double-blind bean tasting we do as a family that much more feasible when only the ones which are SUPPOSED to be nasty are actually nasty and the others are quite good.
I love them, but I honestly can’t beliece people actually like the buttered popcorn flavor! It tastes like pure suck! And I hear it’s the best selling flavor! Has the world gone topsy-turvy?
I know! Whenever I eat those weird flavors, I start thinking of all the million-syllable-long chemicals they must have swished together in laboratory test tubes.
Jellybellies taste like the breakdown of society and the depravity of humanity, if you ask me.
You can also buy Jelly Belly jelly beans in bulk at the company’s online store at jellybelly.com.
A couple of years ago, I worked at a company that had this very expensive, elaborate downtown corporate headquarters, where the CEO’s secretary kept a Lalique crystal bowl in the his office filled with Jelly Belly jelly beans specially selected to match the color scheme.
If any of you happen to visit the SF Bay Area in your travels, I highly recommend a trip to the Jelly Belly factory. It’s well worth it. You can buy irregulars there (and only there) for a much discounted price and try the new flavors they’re testing. I went twice, once with each kid. They’re a frequent field trip spot.
I’m not that big a fan of the buttered popcorn flavor all by itself, but it can be great when mixed with other flavors.
buttered popcorn + blueberry = blueberry muffin, which is strangely yummy. There are lots of other jelly belly combo recipes, a tiny fraction of which are here.
Buttered popcorn + just about any other fruit flavor = butter cookie with fruit jam, like one of those thumbprint cookies. Pretty yummy.
Now that I think of it, a buttered popcorn + vanilla combo might be interesting…I’ll have to check that out some time.
I wish there were a rum flavor, so that you could make hot toddy flavored bean combos.
Other combos to try:
Chocolate with cinnamon (chocolate with lots of other flavors works well, too, as you might guess. I like chocolate + toasted marshmallow, chocolate + raspberry, and chocolate + cappuccino.)
Margarita with lime
Jalapeno, just about any fruit flavor (peach, mango, or pineapple come to mind, especially) and lemon-lime.
I bought a couple of big boxes of them and went around the world a few times. Most of them are merely curious - earthworm, dirt, earwax, - some are actually good - grass is notably delicious - but a couple are downright horrible. I thought booger would be the worst but it’s largely flavorless (kinda salty) - the worst is by far rotten egg. Following that is - nope, not vomit - bacon (it tastes like raw bacon, not cooked.) Them vomit, then I guess booger. None of the others have much of a gag factor.
Did it say how they replicated all those weird flavors?
