What's Really In A Barf Jelly Belly?

Today on Weird History Food, we are going back in time to the iconic Jelly Bean company's beginnings... Oh, what a storied road Jelly Belly has taken to get to our modern age - from candy dishes at the White House itself to partnering up with the Harry Potter franchise, how exactly did it become the candy we all know and love today? How did it develop flavors that became a sort of 'tasty roulette' in the form of a board game?
#jellybelly #candy #weirdhistoryfood

[@SquareViking]

Played Bean boozled one New Year's pre-lockdown. Went to bed with the second barf bean of the night (I'm unlucky as hell) stuck in my throat. Woke up a few hours after going to bed, went to throw up due to the taste and was relieved when the vomit tasted better than the bean.

[@richardperks7776]

As my mom always says “natural flavours are better than artificial flavours”

[@Purple_pp69]

How did you know it tasted better than the bean

[@smactus]

@Cymbal_1 because you can taste the vomit when it comes out of your mouth???

[@edwardclark6731]

@@Purple_pp69 because the vomit comes out of your mouth

[@SquareViking]

@@Purple_pp69 1: I've vomited before. 2: I vomited it back up, so I was left with a taste of real vomit.

[@matthewsermons7247]

I'm surprised you didn't mention that to make the bad-flavored beans, they wait until night when the rest of the factory is shut down or risk contaminating the normal lineup of flavors.

[@CommanderWiggins]

That's such a wild tidbit!

[@ClownHoundII]

If that's true why were factories active and had the lights on when on Dirty Jobs? They even showed the host how booger beans were made by adding beans to a spinning barrel with booger flavored syrup.

[@guitarplayingbastard]

@@ClownHoundII They're not going to turn the lights off for the night shift, people are still working in production.

[@Random-xw3qc]

​@@ClownHoundII Presentation?

[@chrismayer3919]

I think there’s now a trump flavoured bean… 🤮

[@walylama1672]

🧠: When I went to the Jelly Belly factory they said they accidentally invented the barf flavored jelly bean when they were trying to make a pepperoni pizza one.

[@sykadelik459]

Yeah the video says that. Thanks

[@Jason-tz7ir]

Yeah... They explain that, you fucking idiot. Please delete this stupid fucking comment.

[@justgod613]

Fun fact: Ronald Reagan loved jelly beans.

[@KitomNeko]

I was told at the factory it was making a type of cheese flavor that did it

[@CarieFantent]

​@@madeintexas3d442 classic Texas crybaby 😢

[@markophobe1534]

Admit it, if you got a Berry Blast/Toothpaste you ate it regardless of the outcome.

[@DannyLikesTrains]

Toothpaste still m favorite. And lawn clippings is always a good one.

[@dragz]

@@DannyLikesTrainstbh Lawn Clippings, Boogers, and Toothpaste were not bad at all! 😂

[@yours5036]

Yes and the baby wipes/coconut before they updated it I think

[@venom9319]

yes toothpaste or Grass- idk why i ate the grass one but it wasn’t bad-

[@venom9319]

@@dragznah boogers was bad-

[@DetChesmond]

I used to go to the Jelly Belly factory when I was a kid, it always felt like being in a real-life Wonka factory. My favorite part was the portraits made of Jelly Bellies

[@chiquita683]

Did many people die on the tour?

[@JetstreamGW]

@@chiquita683 Only the shitty children who have it coming.

[@ReadyToHarvest]

Yep, been there a couple times. Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. Back in 2005 and maybe 2008. They let you try any of the beans, and drove you through the place on a kind of train without tracks. Since I'm commenting, my favorites are Dr. Pepper, Juicy Pear, Very Cherry, Buttered Popcorn, and anything white or cream colored when I'm relaxing.

[@DetChesmond]

@@ReadyToHarvest Oh wow, I didn’t know there was one in Wisconsin too. I was actually talking about the primary California factory. It makes sense though since their secondary base is in Illinois

[@DetChesmond]

@@chiquita683 Not if they behaved…

[@JKRichards73]

We combined Bean Boozled with Cards Against Humanity. The losers of the round will draw a jellybean.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

That's an awesome idea!

[@kishascape]

Reddit yuppies.

[@TheRealMycanthrope]

​@@kishascapewho hurt you?

[@CommanderWiggins]

​@@kishascapeHow dare people have a good time playing games with friends?

[@bruceaskew2107]

That's sound like a good time lol

[@kameljoe21]

Funny thing is how they say cherry is the most sold Jelly Bean. This is likely because its the cheapest overall one which they flood every market with and add to every package of mixed jelly beans. Its like saying Coke Cola sells the most coke. This is because every fast food place only stocks coke and really nothing else. Most people who drink soda will just opt for coke if that is their only choice.

[@ufc3459]

Not wrong. If a place doesn't have Dr Pepper, coke or Pepsi is the choice for me

[@ReadyToHarvest]

Maybe true, but the Jelly Belly very cherry is imo the best cherry flavored thing in existence. It's so much better than the cough-syrup cherry flavor in so many other candies.

[@plicketyplunk]

Cherry🤢

[@tadhalpin1595]

​@@ReadyToHarvestfancy seeing you here

[@snakesbakecookies]

‘coca cola sells the most coke’ Woah bro It’s almost like No other brand Makes coke …

[@estinaviv]

The scrapped pepperoni pizza flavor becoming the barf flavor is interesting to me because Parmesan cheese and vomit actually both have a compound (butyric acid) that make them taste/smell the same. This strong smell only comes from Parmesan cheese if it’s mishandled tho

[@yogabagaba8289]

You’re joking, I just have a conversation that Parmesan smells like throw up to me and all my friends looked at me like I am crazy. It must be a gene, similar to how there’s people who can eat cilantro, and then people who think cilantro tastes like soap.

[@Yezpahr]

@@yogabagaba8289 Some people cannot taste fat flavor. I find it like water, absolutely tasteless, unless it has enough particles of meat / salt / smoked flavor in it. I sometimes see people eating the dried layer of fat on their gravy as if they can taste something, but it must be a compulsory action as it resembles the bodylanguage of a dog going for his own throwup.

[@m.nic.5080]

I used to work for a major Jelly Belly retailer. We got six pound boxes of each flavor in our shipments to put in our dispensers. The Bean Boozled flavors STINK in large concentrations, and sometimes if the warehouse was too hot some of the boxes of beans would melt a little and become a bean brick that we employees had to manually pull apart with our (gloved) hands. Well, one time it happened with a box of the puke beans. My coworker helping me break up the brick said it looked and smelled like dissecting a placenta and I could never unsee or unsmell that.

[@NewMessage]

I'm fine with all the flavors, save one. Buttered popcorn. it broke my brain.

[@Mu1chMuncherBuncher]

Buttered popcorn sucks lol

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

That one is gross!!!

[@nikoandroman]

I liked that flavor but I hated the fact that it was either popcorn or rotten egg which is easily one of the worst flavors in the box. I actually remember liking the earwax and black pepper ones

[@Manticorn]

Dammit, buttered popcorn is one of my favorites! But I'm also a huge fan of black licorice, which people also hate. :/

[@Manticorn]

@user-li2yv5je5e oh you're definitely right about that! I think the issue is that jelly beans have to have a sweet base while popcorn is salty

[@ChipboardDev]

tl;dw, so i googled it: Barf (formerly Vomit) is a BeanBoozled jelly bean that was introduced since BeanBoozled's debut. It is a medium-dark orange with red splotches to resemble harmless Peach jelly beans. The flavor was the result of a failed attempt at creating a cheese pizza flavor, where Jelly Belly accidentally used a smelly cheese.

[@NSH_2814]

Thank you! Saved me from watching 10 minutes of yapping

[@antibishonen]

The Licorice/Skunk one was a double whammy

[@SupermarketSweep777]

Meanwhile the Berry/Toothpaste one was safe on both sides.

[@ReadyToHarvest]

lol. I do like the Black Licorice flavor, but it's not a good one to get in the mix. You don't want to throw 5 beans in your mouth and have one be black licorice. They are best by themselves.

[@bagingospringo4396]

I knew a guy that ate every single black bean in the box I'm like oh god

[@lakrids-pibe]

The Danish candy manufacturer *BonBon A/S* got a new owner in 1988. They launched a new hard candy with a different and slightly unorthodox taste, which included, among other things, ammonium chloride, (a not uncommon ingredient in Danish licorice) which they gave an appropriate name: *Dog farts* - Hundeprutter The new "naughty" product was a hit with children, and soon they expanded the range with several fun variants: Rotten fish, sewage sludge, seagull droppings, earwax, pee diapers, etc. etc. In 2001 the company was sold to the danish candy giant *Toms* , who retired most of the variants except the most popular.

[@onerva.]

they were a staple of my childhood in Finland, I especially love the rotten herrings 🐟

[@Irreve-rsible]

From my recollection the company founded an amusement park with attractions based on some of the themes you stated, which is still existent and is called, "BonBon-Land." It's really interesting if you wish to research it further.

[@jons.6216]

There used to be a candy shop near where I grew up and they would often have the new flavors available to sample. At the time I wished that the apricot flavor would catch on more!

[@FoxoticTV]

video could have been 1 minute holy hell, just skip to 9:00 to get the answer and still be entertained

[@shadesoftime]

Really stretching to hit that 10 minute mark, aren't they

[@proudamerican4050]

Peach, pear, toasted marshmallow and grape! Mmmm 😋

[@gordtron]

jellybelly roulette is a fun worktime activity.

[@Dave-bj3pq]

Maybe if your 12

[@gordtron]

@@Dave-bj3pq you sound fun! you likely would get all in a fuss when you get a yucky flavor.

[@kellychuang8373]

Yeah it sure is then again these are very uncertain and dangerous times now.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

@@kellychuang8373 WTF!? You sound deranged! These are NOT "very uncertain and dangerous times"! And even if they were, this is a discussion about jelly beans. What is wrong with you!?

[@Dave-bj3pq]

I'm not a little kid so I don't play immature games

[@Simplifried]

Jelly Belly Employee: “Aw, boss, this jelly bean tastes like dog food! What happened?” Boss: “James, you GENIUS. Ok, everybody, we’re going to make 2,763 batches of the dog food bean…”

[@Leguminator]

@3:28 You say he's cooking his friends while my mind went to, "He's cooking naked except for a hat and shoes?"

[@simonagree4070]

Under his hat are his genitals! 😅

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

lol

[@angelasieg5099]

An episode of Unwrapped also stated they used a failed pepperoni pizza flavor and added citric acid

[@jnievele]

I can understand the barf-tasting novelty beans. But why is barf-tasting chocolade the main product of Hershey?

[@GogiRegion]

It has to do with Hershey originally overcooking the cocoa butter and causing it to go rancid, and they needed to simulate the flavor because people got used to it.

[@abean4344]

It’s definitely due to the butyric acid. I do not enjoy chocolate

[@kira_mylove5782]

Finally someone said it, hersheys chocolate is disgusting. It’s the only chocolate I just can not eat

[@kaylaknuckles343]

I’m one of those nasty people that likes it because it tastes off 😂 and I’ve genuinely always wanted to understand why no other chocolate tastes like it

[@LowgaenSchmidt]

I saw an episode of Modern Marvels where they went to Jelly Belly and a guy that worked there said the vomit flavored bean actually came from the original idea to try and make a pepperoni pizza flavored bean. It apparently tasted so bad that he almost got sick himself. So that gave them an idea to turn it into the vomit flavored bean by taking that original pizza flavor and adding citric acid to it.

[@rodneythe3rd122]

I had someone trick me thinking I was doing the usual jelly belly roulette but it was the spicy version 😂

[@NASCARFAN93100]

Imagine if they made Cheeseburger flavored Jelly Beans

[@kellychuang8373]

Now that is something but who knows when that is happening.

[@Lobonova]

I would eat

[@kellychuang8373]

@@Lobonova You're really bold and courageous and also still good video on this topic thought it would really be a disaster but it wasn't and have to deal with the fact that food and drink is a gamble to especially ones from the past or what you see on TV and movies it isn't always going to agree with you is a fact along with our times and also have to note about classes among other times in history.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

@@kellychuang8373 You need to learn how to type sentences. You sound mentally ill.

[@bunkley923]

@@Lobonova well they got the barf flavored jelly beans from trying to make a pizza flavor because the cheese tasted really bad so it would probably be even worse

[@ALL_that_ENDS]

Of course Charlie makes his way into this video.. Had a smile the whole video..

[@plicketyplunk]

😂😂

[@doublelunch24]

Watermelon flavor supremacy!! 🙌🍉

[@chrismayer3919]

NO! LIQUORICE EVERY TIME!!!

[@Jelee_Tea]

VRChat user spotted!

[@ukar69]

I visited the factory in Fairfield in 2003, from England. Although you can get JBs in the UK there's a load of flavours you can't get. I think my favourite at the time was jalapeno.

[@kellychuang8373]

Good video here and thanks for the topic not always predictable I can say.

[@Dylan-rt6ty]

Toasted marshmallow is the GOAT

[@Leone_510__]

Juicy pear is the goat.

[@dragonflower50]

My favorites are buttered popcorn, pear, and mint chocolate chip (I don’t know if they make that one anymore). When I was a kid I would pretend that Jelly Bellys were futuristic food capsules.

[@Luckdragon12]

Love Jelly Belly! Always a great quality candy, and the options seem endless. 😃❤

[@CheeseTooth]

I love that it took an entire video essay just for me to find out the answer to the question in the title.

[@gamemasteranthony2756]

Curious that Jelly Belly didn’t do a tie-in with the Boy and His Blob game series, given all the powers you get from the different flavored beans. Betcha that would’ve made a mint back then! Although it would’ve also meant making Ketchup flavored beans, but hey…

[@balisongman07]

We toured the Budweiser factory before the jelly belly one. So I was feeling pretty good and had them give me one of every boozled Bean to try them all at once. Rotten fish stood out over and over.

[@btetschner]

A+ video! LOVE IT! What a legendary candy, like something out of Willy Wonka!

[@Cosmikslug]

I went to the factory for a tour and they tell you so much cool stuff that you would never think about. For instance did you know that jelly beans are made with sugar? Fascinating stuff.

[@helgageraldine513]

We played this once in the office, and I got baby wipes. If you're wondering what it taste like, it's like you eating baby powder. I only realized later on that this "baby wipes" was powder scented. It was the worst. Well, not as worst as barf and booger, according to two of my very fortunate co-workers.

[@MrRezRising]

I remember the whole Reagan and jelly beans obsession, and I remember JBs showing up around then bc I freaked out over the tangerine flavor. Still do.

[@AlphaMoist]

The answer is it was originally a pizza flavor for a game but it tasted like vomit so they called it vomit flavor. 10 minute video over

[@katlyndobransky2419]

I genuinely had jellybeans, and I remember my brother coming home with a box of bean boozled after school. I took the smallest bite you could ever take out of a black one, and I can’t remember if it was skunk or licorice, but I think it actually murdered some of my taste buds. I remember toothpaste being pretty good though lol

[@MadChristoph]

I totally remember playing this game, had to rush to a trash can at school

[@MiiGameplaysHD]

"and his son, Adolph" 🤨🤨 "Goelitz" 😅

[@evanhurt8673]

I got clickbaited into learning more than I expected to

[@thisdeath]

omg they referenced all sources that they even referenced the meme 7:17.. nice dedication haha

[@FormlessDuck]

I went to the factory when I was a kid and its still my favorite family trip.

[@AddersOtter]

Man I've seen anthropomorphic food items before and had the same thoughts. I'm glad I'm not alone. I've seen them with chicken patties and hot dogs and I'm like wait, what?

[@DeerEwe]

This reminds me of my childhood watching those candy cooking show on the cooking channel 🥰

[@arsonzartz]

help i laughed really hard when they said adolph for...square mustache related reasons 1:05

[@Funlife411]

Me too

[@BlankSpaceMonsterASMR]

Bean boozle is one of the most evil inventions ever and I love it

[@andrewweaver2517]

Now this is Weird History.

[@joshcoe]

good! great!

[@damiller97]

Jelly Belly Sours are my go to!

[@DGKChoice]

I had the harry potter ones when i was a kid. There was one called pencil shavings, and it tasted like that and it felt like where shavings stuck in your throat for like an hour. I still think about it 15ish years later lol

[@sootytern]

i jus woke up smokin my weed drinkin my coffee this exactly what i need to start the morning

[@Jason-tz7ir]

Imagine thinking smoking weed is a personality

[@garrettboomerbender]

Cringe

[@joshjohnson5494]

Weird flex bro

[@joshjohnson5494]

"I smoke weed and HAVE to tell people online" 💀💀

[@sootytern]

@@Jason-tz7ir brah u be listening to bat man while u "train" i couldnt imagine ur personality

[@Pomethesheep]

I used to eat the barf jellybeans all the time for some reason they were one of my favorites

[@rsokol71]

Yes! My favorite snack food

[@PhantomLover007]

My favorites are the Jelly belly “flops“. All the discarded sizes that they kick back for visual aesthetics. Could easily find them in the discount stores like ‘big lots’ for roughly about three dollars per big bag. I think it’s somewhere around five dollars nowadays. Very much worth the cost.

[@ReadyToHarvest]

I see these at Menard's some of the time.

[@kidd7583]

I would love to hear the history of the candy Runts

[@jerranspearman3369]

good video

[@btetschner]

Having ANOTHER Weird History drink! Drinking a glass of TANG*†...while watching this Weird History video! * From the Weird History video "The Real Willy Wonka | The Food Scientist Behind Your Favorite Junk Food" † The dry mix is from a 20 ounce container

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

I've been to the Jelly Belly Factory in CA :D it was a lot of fun. I can safely say I've never eaten the flavor other than popcorn, that one is gross.

[@greatht1gaming398]

I used to play bean-=boozled sm that I eventually learned how to tell the diff between both flavors by selling them, even at a small distance 😭😭😭😭

[@anonymousYTviewer69]

when i worked at walmart i left a bag of bean cboozled on the break room table... no idea if anyone actually took a handful at once... but i hope they did

[@RubyDoesIt]

1:18 so many candy corns 2:34 wow that’s something I never knew

[@SBBunny93]

Jelly Bellies are my favorite jelly bean lol. Like I don’t like any other kind. Cream Soda to be exact lol 😂

[@honkytonkinson9787]

My son got a beanboozled kit with spicy Jelly Beans. They’re all spicy and you spin to decide which type of pepper you’ll eat. I like spicy food and put extra hot hot sauce on a lot of food; can eat hot peppers raw. One of those beans really got me, way too hot to play a game that would be any fun!!

[@GMCLabs]

Tuti Fruity and popcorn are the best flavors.

[@ReadyToHarvest]

Those are both good ones. Juicy pear is great. I dislike Island Punch (the purple one)

[@Masterpieceman16]

This is what I don’t like about KZbin. The video title and thumbnail makes it seem it’s going to be about what’s in a barf flavored jelly bean, but they start off with a whole monologue about the history of the company. If I wanted to know the history I’d search for that.

[@ZodiacBoi42]

Who remembers first learning about this from Mike Rowe on cable tv in 2008

[@BrawlSnorlax]

I had those before. I liked the dead fish ones acully.

[@nikoandroman]

You can all kill me but I remember actually liking the earwax and black pepper jelly bean

[@Fuzunga]

One minute at the end of this ten minute video actually actually discusses the subject of jelly bean flavors, which is something that I was actually interested in hearing about. Your clickbait got a view out of me, so congrats.

[@valeriorodrigues3351]

make the weirdest food and stuff tie-ins (movies, shows anything else)

[@jamesmoss3424]

Jelly Belly got every flavors. 😀👍

[@believein1]

I got a Belly Flops bag that has the error jelly beans and I found a candy corn in it lol.

[@carlgrimeseyepatch27]

jelly belly is actually a master cloner and makes an army of like jelly beans of different flavors to be his friend

[@Scrabbledat]

Would be interested to hear about Cadbury

[@dagnabit27851]

I had a friend who thought the vomit flavor tasted like pizza and I thought she was crazy. Turns out her palate was spot on.

[@TRDiscordian]

I haven't bought JellyBelly since they've started their weird stuff (or at least, when I became aware of it), kind of an odd marketing campaign. Not that I wanted to stop eating them, I just feel unintentionally sickened by them because I associate them with horrible flavours.

[@sherodbrown3961]

I’ve really enjoyed this video. Especially after he mentioned the pizza and barf flavored bean. I thought it tasted like some disgusting pizza too

[@brendandash]

i remember specifically liking the toothpaste flavor

[@mageyplss]

I played bean boozled before and we had a bin that we could spit into if we bit into a bad jellybean. The smell of all the beans sitting in the bin was genuinely as bad as the taste of the beans themselves

[@Claytoon253]

How cereal started what be an interesting one I imagine

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks for this! 🫘

[@MrJamm33]

i once ate a jelly bean under my couch because i was a dumb kid and it was the barf flavour, i no joke had to drink 2 bottles of water to get rid of the taste.

[@jamesmoss3424]

Do one on The Clark bar.😀👍

[@puredruid]

9:20 - Some brands of Mac and Cheese have that same vomit taste, so it makes sense that they've used that same flavour in the vomit jelly bean.

[@EnzotheAvgeek]

i feel proud to say im one of the barf jellybeans victims

[@Cassfrass]

“I hope you aren’t eating for this” Me mid bite

[@tjtweedy3189]

Everyone knows popcorn is the best flavor.

[@ReadyToHarvest]

It's really good. It's surprising to some people that the flavor works with the format, like chocolate cheese.

[@alexwalker8460]

Ew XD. But then again I never claimed to be everyone.

[@cweaver4080]

It's great watching kids pay extra for the Bertie Botts beans and then throw out all the gross ones.

[@SattarM-ju3dv]

No doubt never any one compare able to this narrator around the world

[@joshrobinson2409]

The first time i saw the barf favored bean was when harry potter started to become really popular and jelly belly made their version of bertie bots every flavour beans

[@scramblerbricks7293]

I feel sorry for the guy who had to repeatedly taste test these things

[@scramblerbricks7293]

I stand corrected, nobody taste tests these things

[@firestargold9487]

Loved the toothpaste one it doesn’t taste bad

[@rancidiot]

I saw this on phase connect the other day lol

[@Annatomova7]

I love eating the sparkly jelly beans 🫘 💖

[@JimmyJonathanHa]

Cool

[@blattman13]

I discovered them in the 70s and would bring them to parties

[@lunarxgreninja96]

I really love berry blue