May 17, 2011

I’ve been told that me and my siblings bear a strong family resemblance.  But one thing I don’t share with them is a love for jelly beans.

I’m not a fan of jelly beans.  Never have been.  Every Easter (year after year), when all of us kids would make our way to the easter baskets, they were loaded with jelly beans.  But, I always left them in the basket along with that plastic grass.

This week, a friend of my mom’s brought this box of gourmet Jelly Belly jelly beans up to her hospital room.  And with the steady stream of visitors, they have been slowly disappearing.  Some flavors quicker than the others.  Good thing there’s a legend on the box top.

I have to admit that I did break down and try a buttered popcorn flavored jelly bean (2nd row from the bottom, 4th from the right), and it tasted EXACTLY like movie popcorn.  Amazing.  That ought to do me for a while.