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From: brian@bu-cs.UUCP (Brian Ross Gardner)
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Subject: Re: Jelly Babies
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 22:38:21 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 16 22:38:21 1985
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This is my first time submitting anything to netland, so I
hope I'm not going to press the wrong switch an dematerialize...
   Does anyone know where such a British food store might exist in
the Boston area? (The bag in my pocket ran out.)
   Jelly babies don't taste like any of the American or German jelly 
candies. They taste more like a soft sugar candies, than a jelly bean
or a jelly jude. (You can bend one in half much more easily, too.)
   I have hear rumour, and perhaps someone can back me up on this,
that jelly babies can not be marketed in the US because they use
Red Dye #2 (which the FDA outlawed several years ago, but is still very
much a normal ingredient in cangies made outside the US). I'm not
sure how British specialty shops carry them, but I imagine that
they may be covered under some other laws (perhaps as a novelty item,
rather than a candy...just a guess...please don't lynch me).
   I'd very much like to get them from a British specialty shop in
Boston. Unfortunately everyone I know gets them from the same place
I get them. (Yes -- my pocket).
                      -- Brian G.
:wq