AIBU - to be devatsed to find that in the packet of jelly babies I've just opened....

[ABitStretched]

.......all but one of them are yellow!

[2shoes]

yanbu

[girlandboy]

What the heck is Sports Mixture?

And we still don't know what the lone colour was.

[FabulousBakerGirl]

When I was 18 a kid, I would bite the jelly babies heads off so they didn't feel the pain of me eating the rest of their bodies.

[ABitStretched]

That lots given me a good laugh - no idea anyone would bother replying too this- didn't realise jelly babies was such a lively topic. Unfortunately all the little buggers have been eaten by me so I can;t send pack back but will def right to cadburys and see what I can wangle.

for those of you dying to know what the jelly-baby-ethnic-minority was in the pack..,.he/she was a red one.

Am going to eat choc ice cream now to recover from the shock.

[ABitStretched]

That lots given me a good laugh - no idea anyone would bother replying too this- didn't realise jelly babies was such a lively topic. Unfortunately all the little buggers have been eaten by me so I can;t send pack back but will def right to cadburys and see what I can wangle.

for those of you dying to know what the jelly-baby-ethnic-minority was in the pack..,.he/she was a red one.

Am going to eat choc ice cream now to recover from the shock.

[Thunderduck]

Sports Mixture is made up of 5 fruit flavours of hard gums shaped like sports equipment. They are delicious.

[janeite]

I stretch jelly babies and then work from the toes up, so I can hear them scream.

[girlandboy]

I can't believe that I've never seen Sports Mixture.

I will have to start scouring the sweetie shop shelves more.

[Paolosgirl]

Were you disappointed by the red one?!

Sports mixture is fab - hard jelly sweets in the shape of various bats and other sports related items. The black one used to be a liquorice flavour, and it was delish, but then they changed it to blackcurrent. Pah.

[wickedwitchofwestfield]

my fav fruit gums are the green ones, I am always bloody furious to find a mere 2, somtimes at a push 3 in my packet.

so my OH went out and bought enough packets to put together an entire tube of green ones for me - he sure knows the way to my heart

[mrsrawlinson]

You can buy Kit Kats made entirely of chocolate. They're called Yorkies!

NB: Proper order is pink, red, orange, green. Yellow and black ones are only sprog fodder as far as I'm concerned.

[LovelyTinOfSpam]

Fruit pastilles you can get massive of packets of just the red and black ones at the service station near where i live...

Bet you all know that though...

[Thunderduck]

No the correct order for Jelly babies is yellow, orange, green, pink, red and finally black.

[Paolosgirl]

You wash your mouth out with soap, mrsrawlinson. Pink indeed - pah!

[janeite]

Lol at sprog fodder.

Yorkies are not chocolate - they are made of a horrible grainy brown substance and injected with essence of grit. Horrible things. And hideous, sexist advertising to boot.

[Cadmum]

Might be a 'lucky' evening for you then. (See MP thread and references to said thread above.)

[Paolosgirl]

You don't appreciate them becuase you are a girl, janeite

[lambanana]

Oh I am craving sports mixture now - they are the king of sweets.

Paolosgirl - you can still get the proper bags with the liquorice ones from that retro sweets website. I think you have to buy them by the ton though!

[ABitStretched]

For anyone with a very long attention span please find below the email I have just sent to Cadbury's customer relations.

"For the attention of the Chief Jelly Baby:
Let me paint you a picture.....
The kids were tucked up in bed, husband was out, Desperate Housewives was on the Sky Plus and I settled down to a yummy bag of Jelly Babies. Imagine my horror when I opened the bag and found that all but one of the Jelly Babies were yellow!!! Now I'm not a Jelly-Baby-extremist but variety is the spice of life. Once I had recovered from the trauma of the disappointing packet I discussed my problem on-line. Someone suggested I send you the pack- but unfortunately, even though the jelly babies were yellow, I have still eaten them all:-). Someone else suggested that the monotony of yellow may be a breach of my Human Rights - I suspect the EU have made provision for this somewhere. But that got me thinking about the rights of the sole red Jelly Baby in the packet- how did he/she feel travelling in the dark packet alone in a sea of yellow comrades? Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket - surely the odds of winning will be just as good as the chances of my Jelly Baby disaster.
I am off to cheer myself up with some chocolate ice cream. This will help but discovering a packet of Jelly Babies among the post would be ace.
Thanks for listening - I feel much better.
Kind regards, Jelly Baby fan"

[Paolosgirl]

Ooooooh, fab, thanks lambanana! Buying by the ton poses no problem, believe me!

[lambanana]

Sorry wrong website!

link here www.aquarterof.co.uk/lions-sports-mixture-p-210.html

Get 2 tonnes and we can share - YUM!

[mrsrawlinson]

Terrific letter, ABitStretched!

[Paolosgirl]

LOVE the email, ABit - if you don't get a sackload of them as a result I will eat a manky blackcurrant sports mixture

Have ordered a quarter, lamb, thanks!

[lambanana]

Cracking email!

I will be very surprised if they don't send you anything.