When I lived in Ye Olde College Town, friends and I would have lunch on Friday. When we lunched in the little downtown area, we would often make a trip to the local candy store... where they had a wall of Jelly Belly jelly beans to choose from. I would mix and match the fruity and sour Jelly Belly flavors with the intention of sharing them with my colleagues and then just eating a few. I did share them but I would usually eat the whole damn bag by the end of the day.
A colleague went to ALA Midwinter and spent some time in a candy store buying treats for the rest of us. Because I'm a vegan she bought me a bag of Jelly Belly peas and carrots... you know, Jelly Belly jelly beans shaped like peas and carrots.
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| Seriously, the cutest form of candy ever |
But... If you don't know, Jelly Belly jelly beans are not vegan. They use beeswax to polish the candy. Now, sometimes I eat honey, but I try to avoid it. And while beeswax isn't honey and some people would consider it borderline as far as being vegan or not, I just couldn't bring myself to eat them. even though I wanted to. I mean, I could taste them just my looking at them. (I think they were tangerine and apple flavored--sweet and sour, my two favorite things together.) In the end, I gave them to a friend to take home to his kids.
My friend, Library Vegan, texted me later with some news about a local restaurant--and she asked m what I ended up doing with the jelly beans. When I told her she responded: "You're such a good vegan."
Yes, am a good vegan, dammit.
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I'm catching up on my blog reading this morning, so pardon my tardiness here -- but oh my god, I love Jelly Bellies. I remember going to the mall in Duluth when I was a kid and being mesmerized by the Jelly Belly aisle in the Mr. Bulky's store (and by all the other varieties of crazy candy they had in there, too). I wonder if Mr. Bulky's still exists?
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