h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Oh I see. Yes I can understand that. Like the reds best. Then the green.

at least with jelly babies your able to eat them quickly not like wine gums .you could chew them for an whole week and not make a slightest differance

How very true, BB. Like the tag.
The thing about Jelly babies is that you can put more than one in your mouth without too many problems, but with wine gums they tend to fill the mouth more.Also that don't become such a solid wad

yeah true i forgot how nice jelly babies were saw some today in the shop but didnt buy them they wasnt by the original makers

You're welcome Belana!

Oh and I'll use any excuse to have a rant about Nestle!

Liquid, no the yellow ones don't produce green ones that i've noticed they stick to their own colour, the yellow ones are just common to my mind the red and the green are a much better class of Jelly Baby

AlleyCat

Oh I see. So you're colour prejudice against white jelly babies then are you?
Common indeed?

Have they not the same rights as the Red or green? Or The purple or the Black? Or the Yellow?

Liquid you've missed the point completely, it's the yellow ones that are colour prejudice, not me! but yes i'll take the blame for saying the yellow ones are common... that's because they are! there is no easy way to say other than to just blurt it out.

Nobody seems to have mentioned the orange ones yet and they are not too bad it all.. Red, green, orange, black, then yellow (hope I havn't missed any) is there a white one? I can't remember

AlleyCat

You could have a point there, Alleycat. The yellow ones are found more often then the others, so it could be they could be classed as common.
So in the pecking order, we seem to have the Red as first class and the yellow as common, huh? Do I have that right, then?

Exactly Liquid, you catch on fast, albeit, i've never pecked one

A

I did not know what a jelly baby was. (I have not watched much Who at all) I googled it and found an entry in a competing but perhaps defunct Guide! I notice there's no jelly baby entry in Our Guide that would educate the ignorant amung us....

Come to think of it Alleycat. I'ver never pecked one either. Mind you neither of us have ever Kippled Sorry Private joke.

A jelly baby is a soft gelatin sweet in the shape of a baby with a flat back and flavoured with fruit juices. It is about an inch long and depending on the fruit flavour, it depends what colour it is.

BB says they've changed makes. I didn't know that. I always thought that they were made by Barretts.

I like the black ones personally, they've got more taste!!!

Do you have a personal way of eating them?

Oh I always liked the black ones they tasted much better ,same as going for the purple brazil nuts in quality Streets.But I eat jelly babies by the handful mostly....I think that says a great deal about me Bassetts used to make em I believe.

It seems that some people eat them one at a time, biting bits off, whereas others cram a load into their mouths all at once. Interesting.

Bertie Basset..does the Liquorice Alsorts aswell i think lol

they must be eaten in colour order, 1 at a time and you cant start a new colour till youve had all of the same, then you rip the head off, after that some people prefer to chew bits of body off - me, i was never fussed after the head was decapitated lol

did anyone mention the chocolate 1's again? are they new? do they come in the ordinary packets with the others or do they come in separate box?

People that choose the black ones, bite the head off first, are said to be kinky in bed...

There is a whole list of these "meaning of" knocking about.

IV, as for the idea of sharing Jelly Babies, you're just sick you are.

...off to eat a bag in black, red, green, orange, yellow order.

Personally i find all colours of jellybabies irresistable nibbling away at the legs only to devour the whole bag

"Today I will mostly be:" eating jellybabies...

Next bag in green, yellow, orange, red, black order. - Variety the spice of life.