slo’s WEDNESDAY poll - Jelly Beans

[slo]

Do you eat jelly beans during Easter season?


For Me.....on Easter Sunday only.
On the dining room table I put out a couple different Easter candies for my family to enjoy and jelly beans is one of those candies. I buy the Starburst jelly beans.

 

[Kitty 34]

Not a big fan but I still always buy a small bag for my Mom at Easter.

 

[maxaroni]

Don’t like them at all. If I want a sugar fix, it needs to be chocolate! I am not a fan of any sticky, gummy type candies. I also am not a fan of hard candies.

 

[tvguy]

Jelly Bellys only. No more of those cheap waxy jelly beans I grew up with

 

[BayouQueen]

Easter isn't Easter without jelly beans and Peeps.

 

[MamaMermaid]

Hate them!

 

[RedAngie]

Jelly Bellys only. No more of those cheap waxy jelly beans I grew up with

Same here. No cheap jelly beans from Walmart or a drug store. I usually get mine from a local candy shop. My favorite are the black licorice-flavored ones.

 

[tvguy]

Easter isn't Easter without jelly beans and Peeps.

And Egg Nog

 

[design_mom]

I will eat them all year long, but I try to limit myself so I don't open the bag till Easter. Then, when they're gone, they're gone. (So I picked "Easter Week")

I bought Aldi jelly beans this year (because they're naturally colored so my daughter can eat them.) There are a bunch of flavors, but we haven't tried them yet. I personally like Brach's or the jelly beans from a local candy company here (Anthony-Thomas). I like the black ones best.

 

[BrianL]

Jelly Bellys only. No more of those cheap waxy jelly beans I grew up with

Jelly Belly's are top of the line of course, but Starburst Jelly Beans are pretty good too for a more budget friendly option. Jelly Belly's also have a few flavors I dislike, like coffee, so I have to be careful. I know the kind you are talking about, and yeah they are bad.

 

[NannyBeBe]

I eat jelly beans once in a while, but only Jelly Belly; none of those horrid ones that Brach's makes.

 

[Meriweather]

I don't eat them. I don't like them.
I buy them for others. I have several bowls of them sitting around.....glitter, pastel, Jelly Bellys. Easy to have them out because they don't tempt me.
DGD gets Starbust ones in her Easter basket. Her favorite candy is Starburst and she doesn't like other jelly beans.
And DH get a bag of black ones

 

[RUDisney]

Jelly beans are Easter's equivalent of candy corn.

 

[ronandannette]

I like jelly beans and I eat them once in a while but I don’t identify them with Easter. I’m not sure I’ve ever even had them at Easter. I do love the Christmas holly berry ones (red cherry, green spearmint and whatever the white flavour is supposed to be).

 

[design_mom]

I like jelly beans and I eat them once in a while but I don’t identify them with Easter. I’m not sure I’ve ever even had them at Easter.

I have/do have them at Easter, but when I think of jelly beans I don't think of Easter either. When I was in Grade School (Grades 1-8), our school had a reading specialist. Each reading group would go down to the reading room in rotation. We had to do speed reading, then answer questions. If you "passed" that day's assignment, you got a jelly bean as a reward (one jelly bean -- but it was still exciting) . Everyone was excited when it was their turn to go to the reading room.

 

[prairie_girl]

I like jelly beans and I eat them once in a while but I don’t identify them with Easter. I’m not sure I’ve ever even had them at Easter. I do love the Christmas holly berry ones (red cherry, green spearmint and whatever the white flavour is supposed to be).

My mom and, when they were alive, my grandparents always had jelly beans around for Easter. I don’t think to buy them so I’m not continuing on the tradition.

 

[amcnj]

I like them overall. They are not something I think of a lot anymore though since the big Jelly Belly craze died down (or it has died down for me at least). That was fun trying all those novel flavors.

I rediscovered the pectin jelly beans a few years ago. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed them when I was young.

 

[NAB]

I get them every Easter too. My family likes them but are usually the last thing left in a bowl ...lol so I might grab one than.

 

[tvguy]

Same here. No cheap jelly beans from Walmart or a drug store. I usually get mine from a local candy shop. My favorite are the black licorice-flavored ones.

You can have all the black licorice ones. Black licorice and kale are two things I don't like.

 

[soccerdad72]

They're ok - not something I'll seek out, but if someone has some around (especially Starburst ones), I'll have a few.