Friday, 4/14

Black jellybeans. Never, ever black jellybeans.

I had someone ask me about my favorite Easter candy a couple of days ago, and instead of trying to figure out which is my favorite, because that might be an impossible task, I told them which Easter candy I absolutely abhor--

Black jellybeans.

Unlike, say, the tale I told you last week about why I don't like bananas, I've never ever liked black jellybeans. And I'll be the first to admit it's the taste of them. While I like anise in cookies, the taste of it in black jellybeans (and its weird cousin, black licorice) just turns my stomach. Unlike bananas, I don't know why it turns my stomach. It just does. And it's not even because I force-fed myself so many black jellybeans that I made myself sick. I don't think I could ever eat that many, because I just don't like the taste.

If that makes me a freak, so be it, because I know there are a LOT of people who love black jellybeans. I know of people who'll buy a bag of nothing BUT black jellybeans and eat them one after the other. But not me. Any other color of jellybean is fine; heck, I even like those bubble-gum flavored Jelly Bellys that make some people wretch.

But black jellybeans? Nope. I'll leave those for you.

So if you happen to see me being offered jellybeans this weekend (not that you would, but never say never), you can rest assured that I'll happy munch down on the red ones, the green ones, the yellow ones, the blue ones, and even the bubble gum ones. But the black ones?

I think I'll pass.

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TV-6 did a story on the little TV show I host as we head into the semi-finals for the year this week.  If you're really bored and wanna check it out, just CLICK HERE. 

With that, I hope you have a great Easter weekend. And I hope your black jellybeans are few and far between. Unless, of course, you like them...because if that's the case you can have mine!

8-)

(jim@wmqt.com)