Wednesday, November 7, 2007

No More Jelly Belly Fear

I received a package of candy today from my sweet family (thanks Mom!). It included some of my favorite candy, Jelly Bellys. I love Jelly Bellys and I think there are few foods in the world that can top the juicy pear flavor. But my problem with Jelly Bellys is that I don't like the root beer flavor. At all. Ideally I should just be able to pick out the root beer ones and give them to a root beer lover. But the tricky thing is that root beer looks a lot like chocolate pudding and some other really good flavors. Usually I eat the brown ones carefully, cautiously taking a small bit to test it. But today, I realized that it's really a not a big deal if I accidently eat a root beer flavored one. Since I've been here, I've had pig intestine, squid, pig feet, fermented cabbage, and other things I would never have tried at home (and some I'll never try again). Coming after all that, a root beer jelly belly seems pretty tame.

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