Unofficial Report on Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans

[Doreen]

I was shopping in my favorite mall and found a store that sold BBEFB for $1. Unfortunately, I only bought four bags of them. When I go back, I will definitely see if they have more for the same price. When I checked the price on the internet, I was quite shocked that they sell for $9.95!

When I brought them home, my fifteen year old son and I sat down and had a BBEFB taste off contest. Dividing the beans into two piles, we would each taste the same colored bean, and both of us would try to guess which flavor it was. The fact that we both knew there were some nasty flavors only added to the fun.

As with most Jelly Belly flavors, most of them were right on the mark and yummy tasting. Our very favorites were buttered toast, coconut, bubblegum, chocolate pudding, banana, and cotton candy.

Of the nasty variety, the black pepper tasted hot & peppery; the horseradish also hot & no doubt that it was horseradish; the booger bean tasted like mold smells... ewwww; but by far the nastiest bean in the bunch was the sardine flavored one! I had to spit mine out! My stomach did a flip! Vile, disgusting! 

A word of warning: although the beans are color coded, the coconut, horseradish, and sardine are close enough in color so as to make a mistake in choosing the correct one. ha ha 

The packaging is great .. a cloth bag that says Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans net wt. 3.5 oz with the HP lightning bolt logo running thru the names. There is an informational tag outside and the flavor guide inside. The candy itself is wrapped in celephane inside the cloth bag. 

These would make fun Easter basket items or stocking stuffers or a fun birthday party game for HPers.

Doreen, still remembering the sardine bean

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