Blackcurrant jelly babies are an abomination

[MatildaMovesMountains]

.... and need to be abolished, along with pink French Fancies, decaff coffee and jammy red wine.

Prove me wrong.

Yes. I loved them. They took quite a lot of chewing, like the old Curly Wurly before reformulation. Which was a good thing.

Blackcurrant jelly has some pizzazz yet I find strawberry bland. I wonder if it's the rich colour of blackcurrant that makes it appealing? 🤔

What about those sweets that combine chocolate and liquorice? Is hanging too good for them?

The green ones are the best. Ditto fruit pastilles

The colour may be appealing, but the taste is appalling.

This is the most sensible post I've ever read on here.

😂 oh yes, miss the chewy curly wurlies. Now it's ike sinking your teeth on a sponge.

Except when it was cold (often in my Northern childhood) the chocolate used to shatter and fly off everywhere.

😆 🤣 😂

in the 70s!!

@MatildaMovesMountains argh yes! Pink French fancies just taste of nothing except am intense sweetness no flavour completely pointless! Yellow ones yum! I really like the white winter ones they do at Xmas also. Though that said, the price of FF is shocking these days so been a few years!

O la la, how French are the Fancies, anyway? 👩‍🍳

I thought all Jelly Babies tasted the same!

Totally agree re decaf and jammy wine though.

I have no thoughts on French Fancies but come the revolution those Battenberg monsters will be abolished.

Don’t think I’ve ever had a blackcurrant Jelly Baby.

Pink French Fancies are the best.

Decaff can get in the (compost) bin.

Go and buy a packet of jelly babies. Sample each colour. You will find out you are very much mistaken. You will also find out blackcurrant ones are simply the best.

Green ones, no ta! Black ones are nice.

Down with French Fancies!!!

Yes to Jelly Babies!!

Applies to all colours of each, because I don't discriminate.

<scoffs smugly>

God, I love Turkish delight! The posh stuff, though, not the pink jelly. You should be able to taste mastic, rose and nuts 😋

M&S Fondant Fancies, nicer that Mr Kipling!

Why have you chewed condoms ? 🤔

Jammy red wine is foul.
Unfortunately DF thinks we like it & gleefully brings a bottle every week or two (thankfully it works well in stews & bolognaise type sauces)

Except if they are all mine I eat the green ones first and saved the best to last.

I never understand when people ask what the point is of decaf drinks - I love both tea and coffee but too much caffeine makes me jittery, so I drink decaf for the taste. Do other people only drink them for the caffeine and not the taste?

This. And black jellybabies are second only to green.

All blackcurrant sweets taste of old sweat.

I’ll hear nothing against Turkish Delight though @raspberrieswithchocolate!