Monday, July 11, 2005

Quite The Surprise

I don't surprise easily.

But today I had a very interesting experience. Debby, Noelle and I took our niece Kayley (Debby's sister lives 40 minutes away) to the mall close to our house. Noelle and Kayley rode the carousel (Noelle rode on the horse for the first time), and then we had lunch. After lunch, we went to Graeters (a great ice cream place) for dessert, and we noticed that they had Harry Potter Jelly Beans for sale, and so I bought a box because I wanted to know what they tasted like. On the back they showed the flavors - jelly beans that tasted like bacon, sardines, soap, etc. I honestly thought that it was a joke, that the bacon jelly bean would taste like plum or something like that.

Imagine my surprise.

These jelly beans actually tasted like bacon, sardines and soap. There was also a dirt jelly bean, an earthworm jelly bean. They tasted like dirt and earthworms. There was even a booger jelly bean that tasted like boogers, except I noticed that my boogers taste better (just kidding). The worst jelly beans were the vomit jelly bean (yes, it pretty much tasted like I would expect vomit to taste like) and - the worst of them all - the rotten egg jelly bean. Oh my goodness, it tasted like a nasty egg. By that time we were driving in the car and I almost had to stop the car and get out and puke. I'm amazed at how real these jelly beans and it made me wonder why someone who knows that they taste that way would actually buy a box.

3 comments:

Rochelle said...

That was exactly what I asked Zach when he insisted on driving all over about a year ago to find those jelly beans ..and if I remember there is one that tastes like ear wax Yuck!

darker than silence said...

It must've had such an effect on you to write a blog post on it :-)

Adam said...

yeah, I try to keep my blog posts on deeper subjects, but I just had to tell my horror story. :)