Comments on: The perfect jelly bean

By: Vermont Farm Wife

Vermont Farm Wife — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 19:11:21 +0000

Jellybeans from Just Born, the company that makes Peeps, are the best in my estimation, but they’re impossible to come by here in New England so every spring I send cash to my kids – they all live in the vicinity of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where Just Born come from – and they buy all the bags of the fruit flavored ones they can find.

The Vermont Country Store in Weston, just around the corner from our farm, sells pectin jelly beans pretty much year round. I don’t know who makes them for VCS, but all the candy at the Country Store is top quality.

By: CV

CV — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:46:56 +0000

Agree that when it comes to jelly beans, it pays to buy the good stuff. Pectin seems to be a defining quality. Here in Pittsburgh I seek out the pectin beans made by local candy maker Sarris (the beans are a bit smaller than the Russell Stovers but just as delicious). Love the fruit flavors but also have a special place in my heart for the spice variety and black licorice too. I just don’t mix and match among the three 🙂

Those cheap jelly beans in the drugstore aisles are terrible! Makes my teeth hurt just thinking about them.

By: SCOTTtheBADGER

SCOTTtheBADGER — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:45:14 +0000

Pink jelly beans are Badger Approved! Man, I like those!

By: csimon

csimon — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 06:20:51 +0000

Was away from home and I couldn’t find my Russell Stover’s jelly beans this year! 🙁

And it figures I had a craving. Don’t know how many decades (?) ago I discovered the Stover’s pectin jelly beans, but since, like Neo, they are the ones for me
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I barely even glance at the chocolate bunnies anymore, and Peeps — they’ve become a running joke between a close friend and me. I don’t eat them but I have a friend who LOVES them…so long as they are stale! The staler, the better!
At some point it became a tradition: when I’m hitting tthe stores to see if I can find a forgotten stash of my yummy beans, I collect a few boxes of of those sherbet-colored bunnies and chicks to send! And, no hurry. I understand that the staler they are, the better!

CapnRusty, no black ones is only one of the reasons I love them! (obviously, not a lover of black licorice). Nothing like expecting fruity flavors and then biting into the black (licorice, ugh)! No thank you!

Perhaps I’ll be lucky tomorrow when browsing the Easter sales and find a forgotten stash of my prized pectin eggs for my treat…..

By: KLSmith

KLSmith — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 06:01:22 +0000

Lizzy: Yes, they were from the Bertie Bott’s / Harry Potter collection. We were even brave enough to try a few.

By: Tara

Tara — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 04:37:20 +0000

I like both Jelly Bellies and “regular” jelly beans, but they’re so different that they seem like two completely separate candies.

Haven’t tried this kind, though, and they DO look tasty… and we’re going into town on Monday… hmm.

By: Ralph Kinney Bennett

Ralph Kinney Bennett — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 01:06:25 +0000

Dear Neo Neo,
Your eminently sensible writing has enthused and informed me for some time now. But there are those rare — one might say, sublime — moments when one knows that their thoughts are on the same higher plain with another person, and that they are dealing with a mind that is cool, dependable, wholesomely sensitive, sure-footed and equal to any challenge. Such was my feeling when I read of your shock — yes, shock — when your pectin-bedazzled tastebuds are blindsided by “a spicy one.” That sealed it! When the balloon goes up, I want you in the trenches beside me.

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 00:19:42 +0000

I love Jelly Bellies, and my favorite flavors are popcorn (caramel corn is good, too), grapefruit and cappuccino.

*KLSmith – Those gross flavors sound inspired by Harry Potter. Yuck!

By: vanderleun

vanderleun — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 20:38:11 +0000

“Traditionally fruit-flavored, made with smooth and succulent pectin, with a lovely and slightly translucent sheen….”

That’s it! I must have a bag or five. I shall hunt high and low hoping to find this most succulent of all pectins!

By: KLSmith

KLSmith — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 20:13:08 +0000

Guess I’m a Jelly Belly weirdo. I love their buttered popcorn flavor. Tastes like butter and sugar. A few years ago they had a specialty box of gross flavors – dirt, worms, rotten eggs, pizza, etc. Now those were weird. I bought a box as a gag gift for my niece and nephew.
Happy Easter!