Sunday, November 9, 2008

Jelly Belly Jelly Beans

This post is not about liquor

I love jelly belly jelly beans

to the right is my personal top 10 list

here is a list of new and current flavors i havent tried yet that i'd like to
  1. Cafe latte
  2. crushed pineapple
  3. kiwi
  4. lemon drop
  5. mango
  6. orange juice
  7. orange sherbert
  8. wild blackberry - a reviewer says about this one: Flavors burst out of the bean to fill your entire mouth with blackberriness.
  9. pomegranate
  10. cinnamon toast
  11. apricot
  12. honey graham cracker
  13. orange crush
  14. grape crush
  15. 7 up
i'm not so sure about the roasted garlic and the baked bean, but i'm sure the tobasco, and dark chocolate will be big hits

They have a new line of coldstone creamery inspired beans that look good.  especially the apple pie a la coldstone

check out their new line of prank jelly bellys that are look-alikes to regular flavors which are both mixed in together so you never know what you're getting:

  • "Skunk Spray" (looks like "Licorice")
  • "Pencil Shavings" (looks like "Top Banana")
  • "Moldy Cheese" (looks like "Caramel Corn")
  • "Baby Wipes" (looks like "Coconut")
  • "Toothpaste" (looks like "Berry Blue")
  • "Rotten Egg" (looks like "Buttered Popcorn")
  • "Ear Wax" (looks like "Cafe Latte")
  • "Booger" (looks like "Juicy Pear")
  • "Vomit" (looks like "Peach")
  • "Black Pepper" (looks like "Plum")

  • a few from bertie botts on there. i think pencil shavings, baby wipes, skunk spray, and black pepper sound like the most shocking pranks.  in my opinion, the candy corn tasted like moldy cheese to begin with!

    and how about new mystery flavor ice cream sandwich, and new contest winner acai berry?  yikes!

    Mango fizz

    1 part mango vodka (i use 3 olives)
    3 parts orange fanta

    Its sort of a riff on a screwdriver.  except way tastier

    Crazy Berry

    2 parts blackberry vodka
    1 part cranberry vodka
    3 parts red bull
    2 parts raspberry soda, or raspberry flavored carbonated water, like Canada Dry Raspberry Sparkling soda--it has no sugar, AND no fake sweetener

    riff: trade the raspberry soda for cranberry ginger ale, available around the holidays, and the cranberry vodka for raspberry

    this is a very tart drink, not as sweet as you expect, so its good if you're trying to keep the calories down, but you still like fruity drinks.  you can even use sugar free red bull.

    If you find it is not sweet enough for your tastes, try pomegranate liquer, or creme de cassis (black currant liquer).  Both are available at your regular liquor store, offered by DeKuyper, the people who do Pucker.  It sounds exotic but its really not.  If you can't find them, use whatever else berry flavored you can find--raspberry, cherry, whatever

    デカイパー ラズマタズ DEKUYPER

    Raspberry Jam

    Raspberry  Jam

    One part pomegranate vodka (i like three olives)
    One part cranberry juice (try and get the good stuff if you can, but cranberry coctail will do fine)

    serve over ice with optional lemon wedge.  

    You're not reading this wrong--there are no raspberry ingredients.  it doesn't taste like artificial raspberry flavor, it tastes like real raspberry jam--the floor won't know what hit it