Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans

28 06 2007

bb_beans.gifFor those of you familiar with Harry Potter, the title of this post should bring a flood of familiar memories.  As I was walking through World Market (the Ackerman family’s favorite store to wander aimlessly through) I saw a box of these peculiar confections.  I couldn’t help but purchase.

When Laura saw the box, her sugar dependency overtook her.  Laura has seen the movies but is not a true lover of the novels, and might have only seen the Jelly Belly name.  It wasn’t long before she was gagging and handing me a small mouthful of colored goo.

This, of course, forced me to “man up” and eat whatever she told me to and try to guess the flavor.  I got hung up on “bacon” and “sardine” (all I could think about when tasting the sardine was salt), but was able to identify earthworm and soap.  Other flavors: vomit (very gross), booger, earwax, rotten egg, black pepper (really tasted like a spoon-full of pepper), dirt, and grass.

All in all, it was pretty funny.  Laura was laughing so hard watching me gag.  I like to think of my self as having a hardy constitution, but I had to stop after a while because it was too sick.  Fun for the whole family!





Quote of the Week

28 06 2007

“I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.”  –Frank Deford