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From: acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone)
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Subject: Re: Jelly Babies
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 16:01:54 EDT
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[Ah-wii! The laka nuki's got me!!]
>    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.)

Agreed.  For those of us who have had jelly babies before (and I guess that
would be most of you), there is nothing quite like a jellybaby.
They are quite soft (when they're fresh), unlike jelly beans, which have
a harder outer shell.  And have much more flavour than a jellybean does.
They come in five flavors (and colors) -- cherry (red), orange, lemon,
lime (?), and my favorite, blackcurrant (the purple ones) -- no, a black-
currant doesn't taste at all like a grape.  Get some blackcurrant tea
(I recommend Twinings) when you get the chance.

>    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've heard this too.  I don't know how the dealers can get them through
customs, but they probably pay a lot in duty (which -- you guessed it --
is most likely a big chunk of the convention price).  I wonder how much they
go for in Great Britain.
I wonder if anyone has stated a petion drive to get Geo. Bassett & Co. of
Sheffield, England (the ones who sell the jellybabies in yellow cardboard
boxes) to start making the red ones with something other than Red Dye #2.

From another jellybaby junkie...
-- 
From the House on the Knoll, not far from the Holt...
Jim Poltrone  (a/k/a Poltr1, the Last of the Raster Blasters)
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