Okay, I think that the PEAR flavored ones taste exactly like pears. jarbabyj and tiggeril insist that the POPCORN ones are most realistic.
They also make the Bertie Botts Every-Flavored beans, and there have been votes for the VOMIT bean and the GRASS bean.
Which one do you think tastes most like its namesake? Not your FAVORITE, but the most ACCURATE?
Licorace 
I believe the peach flavor is almost dead-on, as is the toasted marshmallow one.
methinks peppermint or cherry
Oh, the pear ones, definitely. Which is all the more amazing to me because, apart from a pear, I’ve never had anything else pear-flavored. I assume the Jelly Bellies use an artificial flavor, does anybody else use it?
Yep. Pear. Definitely. There are others that are accurate too, like the popcorn (particularly the caramel popcorn ones), tangerine, peanut butter, and passion fruit (it’s uncanny). But pear wins hands down.
Java, but don’t you think the peach ones taste like that classic artificial peach flavor, à la peach Nehi or peach-flavored Jolly Ranchers? None of those really tastes like fresh peaches.
My vote goes to pear. Buttered popcorn is putrid and tastes nothing like actual buttered popcorn to me!
Good lord, there is such a thing as a vomit flavored jelly bean? :eek: I’d hate to be the taste tester for that one.
My vote goes to pear. Buttered popcorn is putrid and tastes nothing like actual buttered popcorn to me!
Good lord, there is such a thing as a vomit flavored jelly bean? :eek: I’d hate to be the taste tester for that one.
I agree that the pear ones are most authentic.
I just love 'em.
I also agree with benson about the vomit flavored ones.
Can that be for real?
Dr. Pepper
I wish I had a bag of em right now.
ok I suppose that’s an artificial flavor copying an artificial flavor. But very realistically 
Jelly Belly Jelly Beans?
puking face
Where’s that hurling smilie when you need it…
I think that the Popcorn one actally tastes just as greasy as buttered popcorn.
Definitely Popcorn
Pear. My big favorite.
Popcorn is fairly authentic ( well, if your popcorn was drenched in sugar ), but as I dislike popcorn, that really doesn’t help :D.
Grass flavored jelly beans? On the rare occasion that I eat jelly beans, they’re Starburst. I don’t like jelly beans much, so I haven’t really explored the many flavors. Where are you guys finding these things?
Slight Hijack- When my Grandmother was dying of stomach cancer, many foods became unappetizing to her (I think its a side effect of the chemotherapy) with the exception of buttered popcorn jelly bellys. So in her last days she subsisted off those because it was the only thing that tasted yummy to her. So obviously they got something good going on with those.
Lots of people 180 from each other on the buttered popcorn ones. LindyHopper nailed it when talking about the pear vs. peach flavored ones. The pear flavored ones taste like a pear…even that weird under-flavor (no idea how else to describe it) that pears have. The peach, banana, etc. ones to me taste like fruit-flavored…which just isn’t the same as the FLAVOR OF FRUIT, if you see what I’m saying.
Oddly enough, I prefer banana-FLAVORED things to actual bananas.
Well, as a merchandising tie-in with Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone, Jelly Belly started making “Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavored Beans.” The theory behind them (in the book) is that they are literally any flavor…peach, toffee, chocolate, grass, glue, aluminum, rancid butter… From what I hear, the Jelly Belly people only made a few “odd” flavors, but they include garlic, grass, dirt, and vomit. Charming, eh? Oh, and a friend tells me the black pepper ones are excellent.
Mmm… Aluminum flavored jelly beans.
I wonder if it shocks your fillings the way chewing on actual aluminum does.
I agree with NurseCarmen, the black licorice tastes awful. Just like real black licorice tastes awful.