The low-glycemic diet and the Every Flavor Beans

[cjsmith]

My company's kitchen now contains a box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, prominently labeled I DARE YA.

Too bad I don't have a webcam on it.

Comments

[ericainohio.livejournal.com]

Please tell me they don't REALLY do this to a perfectly innocent jelly bean.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It's all a cruel hoax! They don't REALLY make those disgusting ones to amuse the kids! ;-)

[eichin.livejournal.com]

And yet the line "Alas... earwax" comes up in conversation whenever these show up :-)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I love that Jelly Bellies have natural flavoring ingredients only, e.g. tangerine ones have tangerine juice. I don't want to know whether they extend that to Bertie Botts. :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Last time I was there on a tour, somebody asked. The tour guide assured us that the Bertie Botts beans were an exception. I believe she said that while the ingredients were still "natural flavors", they were NOT derived from the substances for which the beans were named. Lots of research had gone into finding recipes that would produce realistic tastes.