# True love is an earwax jellybean
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 16, 2005, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542 "2005-06-16T14:42:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/1 "2005-06-16T14:42:35Z")
How do I know? Because my husband gave me one and I didn’t kill him.
That’s love, people.
(In his defense, he was trying to give me a sardine one.)
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### Author:  [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/2 "2005-06-16T14:46:17Z")
What would’ve happened if he had given you the vomit one?
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/3 "2005-06-16T15:03:59Z")
If anything, you should be glad you didn’t get the sardine ones. Those things are fuggin’ nasty.
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### Author:  [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/4 "2005-06-16T15:05:48Z")
I haven’t tried the Every Flavor beans yet. I’m scared.
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### Author:  [@TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoneyKingofNowhere)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/5 "2005-06-16T15:10:04Z")
> [@yellowval](#):
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> What would’ve happened if he had given you the vomit one?
… or “booger”
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/6 "2005-06-16T15:13:29Z")
> [@yellowval](#):
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> What would’ve happened if he had given you the vomit one?
There are certain things I refuse to contemplate, for the health of my marriage.
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### Author:  [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/7 "2005-06-16T15:20:12Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#):
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> I haven’t tried the Every Flavor beans yet. I’m scared.
I’ve only had the ones that are a little less gross (to me, anyway). I’ve tried black pepper, grass, dirt … can’t remember what else. I smelled a vomit one and nearly lost it. Grass is pretty good, though.
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/8 "2005-06-16T15:23:30Z")
I loved the black pepper. It was oddly wonderful.
Soap was… soapy.
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### Author:  [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/9 "2005-06-16T17:13:54Z")
I love those things. Once I got a box and picked out all the non-gross ones (berry/fruit/whatever), then I went around treating my then-coworkers to what was left in the box. It was great.
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### Author:  [@Fortytwois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fortytwois)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/10 "2005-06-16T20:11:35Z")
I love the soap and grass ones!!!
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/11 "2005-06-16T20:39:22Z")
Trivia: “vomit” is really a “pizza” that failed.
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### Author:  [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/12 "2005-06-16T20:49:11Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> Trivia: “vomit” is really a “pizza” that failed.
That is often the case.
The thing I wonder is how they got their testers to admit knowing enough about some of the flavors to be certain they were authentic.
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### Author:  [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/13 "2005-06-16T21:54:52Z")
heh-heh. I gave my husband a handful of Bertie Bott’s one day and watched him throw the whole handful into his mouth. He started chewing, got a very befuddled look on his face before he spat them out and asked what the heck I’d given him.
And I always wondered how they know what the bogey flavored should taste like. And what would one say to someone who ate a bogey flavored one and then either agreed that they got it right on the mark, or were off . . . 😃
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### Author:  [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/14 "2005-06-16T22:05:09Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#):
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> I haven’t tried the Every Flavor beans yet. I’m scared.
They’re great fun. Here’s how we did it. Put all the beans in a cup. Have someone blindfolded and they pick a bean and pass it to someone else who is blindfolded. That way neither of you know what flavor it is and can’t give it away via gasps or giggles. The recipient bites it neatly in half(with a cup nearby to spit it out into if they need to). Then they guess the flavor, both remove blindfolds and compare the uneaten half to see if the guess was correct. Then the blindfolds go back on and the picker becomes the taster and vice versa.
Enjoy,
Steven
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### Author:  [@Atheist\_Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atheist_Princess)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/15 "2005-06-17T03:32:57Z")
> [@yellowval](#):
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> I’ve only had the ones that are a little less gross (to me, anyway). I’ve tried black pepper, grass, dirt … can’t remember what else. I smelled a vomit one and nearly lost it. Grass is pretty good, though.
As you’d expect 😉
Well we don’t have thes wonderful things in Australia…anyone want to be nice and let me pay for them to send a pack over to me?
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/16 "2005-06-17T03:36:01Z")
> [@Atheist Princess](#):
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> Well we don’t have thes wonderful things in Australia…anyone want to be nice and let me pay for them to send a pack over to me?
Brave soul!
Sure. My email is in my profile.
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### Author:  [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/17 "2005-06-17T05:34:18Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#):
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> I haven’t tried the Every Flavor beans yet. I’m scared.
Don’t decide to have this adventure during the 1st trimester of pregnancy whilst still in the easily-puking stage. That’s my hard-learned advice.
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### Author:  [@flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flood)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/18 "2005-06-17T07:30:00Z")
I want to know true love.
What the hell are you all talking about???
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### Author:  [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/19 "2005-06-17T12:50:36Z")
> [@flood](#):
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> What the hell are you all talking about???
[These](http://www.stupid.com/stat/BOTT.html). It’s something out of the “Harry Potter” books brought to life.
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### Author:  [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-love-is-an-earwax-jellybean/308542/20 "2005-06-17T14:26:36Z")
Band Name! Earwax Jellybean rocks!
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