Comments on: The perfect jelly bean https://thenewneo.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:42:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: camojack https://thenewneo.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106794 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:42:01 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106794 dane Says:
April 13th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Camojack,
get in touch with the White House. I think you are due a jelly bean bailout.

Hmmm…doubtful; I’m one of the 92 percenters who pays his bills. 🙁

]]> By: csimon https://thenewneo.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106758 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:49:49 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106758 As soon as I saw the title of this post, I had one thought:
Stover’s jelly beans (called pectin jelly beans I think)! As far as I am concerned, they are the ONLY jelly beans I will eat, since I discovered them many years ago! They are yummy, with semi-soft centers (but not the kind that stick to your teeth) and are tangy sweet, not sugary-sweet.

Unfortunately for me, I searched what seemed endless aisles in several stores, a good couple weeks before the holiday, and couldn’t find a single bag this year!

I’m glad you’ve shared this wonderful secret. As for me, I will just have to be content this year with vicarious enjoyment!

]]> By: rafinlay https://thenewneo.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106736 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:47:43 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106736 I am on the side of the licorice JB conflict. (It can’t be a debate, because none of us are going to listen to the other side’s pathetic “arguments.”) An old Ziggy cartoon pointed out that black jelly beans are especially appropriate what with the Easter Bunny delivering eggs and all. “At least, they LOOK like jelly beans…”

]]> By: Owen https://thenewneo.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106724 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:31:02 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106724 “there is hardly anything worse than the shock of thinking you’re biting into a normal fruit-flavored jelly bean and getting a spicy one.”

Oh, I’ve experienced something FAR worse: taking a sip of a drink thinking it’s milk when it’s actually orange juice. Not usually an easy mistake to make (you have to be looking away from the drink while drinking it), but I can only describe the sensation as horror.

]]> By: dane https://thenewneo.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106721 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:19:19 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106721 Camojack,

get in touch with the White House. I think you are due a jelly bean bailout.

]]> By: camojack https://thenewneo.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106708 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:00:40 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106708 I didn’t get any jelly beans this Easter! 🙁
(Have to correct that oversight, pronto…)

]]> By: Mrs Whatsit https://thenewneo.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106692 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:47:34 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106692 Oh dear. Partisan divisions rear their ugly heads. Necco wafers: yay! Donuts v. cupcakes? Agreed, wholeheartedly. Candy corn? You betcha. As for jelly beans, I agree that “gourmet” ones aren’t worth a second look. But fruit-flavored jelly beans . . . no, no, no. Spicy jelly beans are much more fun, and the licorice ones are best of all.

I hope we can still be friends, even though such a crucial issue divides us.

]]> By: SteveH https://thenewneo.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106690 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:07:20 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106690 Something about the texture of jellybeans i’m not a fan of. Like they can’t make up their mind if they want to be crunchy or squishy.

]]> By: expat https://thenewneo.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106659 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:09:01 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106659 Neo,

Have you ever seen the retro candy collections at Amazon? Just search retro candy at the site. I haven’t ordered them, but just reading some of the names takes me back to daily trips (in summer when there was no school) to our local grocery store. My friends and I spent a good bit of time choosing among the penny candies. They were behind the the counter, but since we were such good customers, we got to go back there and make our own selections. Sometimes when we were playing in our homemade tents, we planned a dinner of penny candy–coke bottles (those wax ones with a sip of liquid) for the drink and those little hard watermelons for dessert. I can’t remember the main courses.

]]> By: dane https://thenewneo.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106649 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:31:18 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/04/12/the-perfect-jelly-bean/#comment-106649 No not the cream filled eggs – the small chocolate ones with a very thin sugar candy coating.

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