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.

You are right, OP.

Shocked at the vote though.

I love blackcurrants and also blackcurrant and glycerine throat pastilles. But I HATE blackcurrant jelly babies. They are indeed a crime against taste.

Are you a household of terrible people?!! I feel it's wrong to judge but my brain keeps going there 🤔

Do you know Herr Schlendrian und seine tochter Liesgen? 👀

No. The correct order for eating Jelly Babies (and everything else) is to eat the worst item first, saving the best one for last.

So, I eat yellow, orange red, green and then the best one of all, black, is last. Yummie! 😁

The hierarchy of French fancies is yellow, pink, brown. But the BEST were the tangy ones from the 90s. Pastel colours, and actually fruity icing. They were lovely.
I'm living in the US at the moment and I miss blackcurrant sweets. They do grape here instead, and it is VILE. Although I really dislike the taste of hfcs so I find a lot of the sweets here not good, grape (and cherry) artificial flavours are just so awful.

Black and red the best in any jelly sweet !

Banana, toffee, strawberry then chocolate .

I'm a bit sceptical that Bettys invented them ... but... their Fondant Fancies are actually the best in the world. No argument. Colour irrelevant. They're probably the most expensive in the world too but you can't have everything. Mr Kipling's are laughably awful in comparison.

Blackcurrant Jelly Babies are the best, @MatildaMovesMountains. Sorry. You can have my green ones.
Did you know they were originally developed and named Peace Babies by Bassett's to celebrate the end of WW1?

I agree!

You had me until pink French fancies- they’re the best ones!!!

Is it like Madeira?

Yellow/lemon Turkish delight is disgusting.
Quite like the pink one.

No. I love the black ones.
Ageee on French fancies, decaf coffee and jammy red wine tho!!!

I am exactly the same, but I start with green as least favourite, then yellow and orange. Red and black are kept to last and savoured.

No, a million times more disgusting! I like Madeira.

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The Norwegians have got it right; not a blackcurrant jellyman in sight. Plus they're stretchy.

Jelly Babies are an abomination.
Jelly Beans aren’t.

Agree about jammy red wine then . It does sound vile.

Blackcurrant (and strawberry) are the best.. I’m also partial to a pink French Fancy. In fact I’ve just had one of their special edition Strawberry and Cream ones. You’d hate them, OP!

Decaff coffee drinker here and I love it!

GF so can’t eat French fancies but when I could I agree the yellow are the best! Actually the white Christmas ones!

Jelly babies are fab. Especially the fake ones that are joined and the black/red combo is the best!

UABVU!

They're terrible... Give them all to me!

YABVU

All french fancies are minging and all jelly babies rock.

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Ooh, the white Xmas ones are divine!!!

But what flavour jellybeans 👀