The Grand Bott's experiment

[Meg Demeranville]

Hey everyone,

Just some humor for your day.

As everyone knows, the movie opens here on Friday. I have tickets and 
are taking a kid I babysit for (who is a huge Potter fan). Because I 
spoil him rotten, I spent my lunch hour yesterday finding stuff for 
him for the movie. He now has (or he will on Friday) the soundtrack, 
a bag of Wizarding money bubble gum and lots of Bertie Bott's Every 
Flavor Beans. I had never seen them before, not here. So I picked up 
a box to try out because the flavors sounded so interesting. I took 
them back to class and we had a grand time tasting them (and teasing 
others who weren't so brave).

Here's my class's opinion, at least on the non-normal flavored ones.

Black pepper - wasn't too bad, did need a drink to wash it down
Booger - oddly enough, it was widely agreed that this was "good"
Dirt - really funky aftertaste
Ear Wax - everyone who tried it spit it out. 
Grass - Again, not that bad, but a funky aftertaste
Sardine - split 50-50, some people said it was good, others spit it 
out
Spinach - again, split 50-50
Vomit - We only got one of these. So our class president was daring 
and tried it. According to him, it tastes like the Gross Anatomy lab 
smells and spit it out. Of course that meant everyone had to smell 
the remnants of the bean. I think "concentrated Gross Lab" was the 
consensus. (And yes, we are a little off, smelling something somebody 
spit out, what can I say, we are medical students)

All in all, we had fun testing our bravery. It certainly took the 
edge off a really bad day for us. 

-- Meg (who really should be studying for her next test)