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To not want black jelly babies in my pack?

63 replies

Indith · 18/04/2008 15:49

It just creates far too big a dilema! Black jelly babies are horrible, they just are. But if I don't eat them then I will have a load of black minging babies left and end up eating them anyway as you can't throw good sweets away, thus ending a jelly baby binge on a yucky taste. But if I eat them all first then by the time I get to the good ones I've eaten too much sugar and sickly stuff and the nice ones don't quite give the same satisfying jelly baby sweet sugar hit.

Perhaps I ponder this too much

Should I switch to haribo instead? But which kind? If star mix then that bring up the egg dilema, and sour mix just gets too sugary and sour......

Yes I'm bored, yes I have essays to write, yes I want something to do other than bite my finger nails, I have to have nice nails by the time I get married!

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yorkshirepudding · 18/04/2008 15:51

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CeilingCat · 18/04/2008 15:52

Nonononono the black ones ae the yummiest. It's the green ones that need to be ditched.

Perhaps we should set up a JB exchange?

Aimsmum · 18/04/2008 15:52

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mosschops30 · 18/04/2008 15:53

I hate black sweets, any of them, jelly babies, fruit pastilles or fruit gums ...bleurgh gross

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Indith · 18/04/2008 15:54

No olde sweete shop that I can think of, green ones are my fave though ceiling cat! Sorry Aims the puss beats you (unless you hate yellow ones, in which case we could come up with a deal between the 3 of us.

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bigknickersbigknockers · 18/04/2008 15:54

I like black jelly babies, its black midget gems that are revolting. bleurgh

CantSleepWontSleep · 18/04/2008 15:54

Black ones are best. You can leave out the yellow ones for me.

misdee · 18/04/2008 15:54

i love all blackcurrty type jelly sweets. last pack of jelly babies i bought only had two black jellybabies in it [sobs] i was so so upset i was going to write and complain.

Egg · 18/04/2008 15:55

Orange are best.

Nowt wrong with eggs in Haribo tho .

Ledodgy · 18/04/2008 15:55

I like green the best same goes for fruit pastilles.

yorkshirepudding · 18/04/2008 15:55

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bigknickersbigknockers · 18/04/2008 15:56

Egg the haribo eggs are awful, DS2 loves them so I swap them for cola bottles

jojosmaman · 18/04/2008 15:56

The worst were the black sweets in the sportsmix sweets although I think they have rectified this horrible error!

Indith · 18/04/2008 15:56

Oh now Cali I love red ones. Not as much as I love red gummy bears though, red gummy bears are fab. I'm with mosschops on black sweets, they are all vile, but at least with packs of fruit pastils there are not as many to eat.

(baby redirected towards duplo)

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bigknickersbigknockers · 18/04/2008 15:57

I'm sure you are nicer than the haribo eggs though Egg

CeilingCat · 18/04/2008 15:57

Cali - will you marry me? We'd make a great jb eating team.

Bink · 18/04/2008 15:58

I only want black and green ones. Only.

I bought a bag yesterday (there is a cutesy [which is odd, in the context of my workplace, which is anticutesy] trad here that clients are met by giant bowls of jelly babies, & you can also buy little batches of them if you have a particularly dull document to read) purely because it was disproportionately black & green.

So I had to suffer through the yellow - yuck - red - urrgh - and PINK - headache in squidge format - before I could indulge properly. And I did have a headache for ages and I know it was those PINK ones.

talkingmongoose · 18/04/2008 15:58

haha, I was sure this thread would be 'political correctness gone mad'...

SquonkTheBeerGuru · 18/04/2008 15:58

you need to find a friend to share them with.

I used to hate the black ones, yet loved the green ones.

My bestest mate hated green, loved black.

So, we were happy jelly baby munchers together ]

Indith · 18/04/2008 15:58

Does anyone have any tips for removing duplo from video players?

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Libra1975 · 18/04/2008 15:59

People who like green ones best are wrong in the head. Red ones rock. (do agree about the eggs in haribo however)

Indith · 18/04/2008 15:59

Ah squonk is that my problem? I need a friend? But I'm a hermit! Any anyway the poor friend would have to sit next to me and eat while I type interesting facts acout translation theory.

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Califrau · 18/04/2008 16:01

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Indith · 18/04/2008 16:01

misdee maybe you should complain, you could get free jelly babies! I once complained about Ben and Jerry's...free ice cream, yum!

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