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

[@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.

[@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”

[@Cymbal_1]

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]

@@Cymbal_1 because the vomit comes out of your mouth

[@SquareViking]

@@Cymbal_1 1: I've vomited before. 2: I vomited it back up, so I was left with a taste of real vomit.

[@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 😢

[@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…

[@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 …

[@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

[@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

[@NewMessage]

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

[@Munkeemulch]

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

[@user-li2yv5je5e]

I'm glad I am not alone. That's more disgusting than most of the disgusting ones.

[@Manticorn]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@proudamerican4050]

Peach, pear, toasted marshmallow and grape! Mmmm 😋

[@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!

[@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.

[@Dylan-rt6ty]

Toasted marshmallow is the GOAT

[@Leone_510__]

Juicy pear is the goat.

[@ALL_that_ENDS]

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

[@plicketyplunk]

😂😂

[@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.

[@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

[@rodneythe3rd122]

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

[@angelasieg5099]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@doublelunch24]

Watermelon flavor supremacy!! 🙌🍉

[@chrismayer3919]

NO! LIQUORICE EVERY TIME!!!

[@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.

[@markophobe1534]

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

[@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.

[@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…

[@kellychuang8373]

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

[@MiiGameplaysHD]

"and his son, Adolph" 🤨🤨 "Goelitz" 😅

[@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.

[@Luckdragon12]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@FormlessDuck]

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

[@arsonzartz]

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

[@Funlife411]

Me too

[@CheeseTooth]

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

[@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

[@btetschner]

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

[@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.

[@joshcoe]

good! great!

[@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

[@damiller97]

Jelly Belly Sours are my go to!

[@ActuallyHoudini]

8:31 COURTNEY???

[@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.

[@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

[@rsokol71]

Yes! My favorite snack food

[@jerranspearman3369]

good video

[@macharvey6573]

Wow finally a company minus the evil villain arch

[@BlankSpaceMonsterASMR]

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

[@kidd7583]

I would love to hear the history of the candy Runts

[@nikoandroman]

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

[@Annatomova7]

I love eating the sparkly jelly beans 🫘 💖

[@andrewweaver2517]

Now this is Weird History.

[@carlgrimeseyepatch27]

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

[@scramblerbricks7293]

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

[@scramblerbricks7293]

I stand corrected, nobody taste tests these things

[@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)

[@MadChristoph]

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

[@wandamontgomery6030]

I love toasted marshmallows and chocolate pudding 😊

[@cweaver4080]

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

[@carafurry7862]

Either the jelly beans don't taste bad, or I've never gotten a bad jellybean.

[@jamesmoss3424]

Jelly Belly got every flavors. 😀👍

[@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…”

[@user-li2yv5je5e]

Grass, dirt, and black pepper actually taste good. But one I can't stand? Buttered popcorn.

[@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!!

[@SattarM-ju3dv]

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

[@N0EL-7007]

I remember playing Bean Boozled once. I got dead fish.. I felt like I was going to throw up for hours and my day was ruined.

[@btetschner]

1:24 Candy Corn is the most popular Halloween candy.

[@lunarxgreninjax4556]

I really love berry blue

[@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.

[@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

[@valeriorodrigues3351]

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

[@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

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks for this! 🫘

[@jamesmoss3424]

Do one on The Clark bar.😀👍

[@Claytoon253]

How cereal started what be an interesting one I imagine

[@mayhudson]

Ive worked in flavor companies and its probably just high concentration of butyric acid in the flavoring.

[@rancidiot]

I saw this on phase connect the other day lol

[@user-yl9ez9lm9e]

On a slightly different note, I've always wondered what a Zagnut tasted like? I assume nuts are involved somewhere in it.

[@user-yl9ez9lm9e]

We Don't really have butterfingers in England, but thank you for trying to explain. I'm truly grateful for your time.

[@ernestcruz6316]

​@@user-yl9ez9lm9eI don't know if you have Clark bars in the UK, but if you do, they're basically the same thing as a Butterfinger so you can substitute a Clark bar.

[@user-yl9ez9lm9e]

@@ernestcruz6316 no, I’m afraid not. I used to see the advertisements for them,Slim Jim's and Twinkies in the Marvel and D.C comics, I always wondered about these things.

[@dragonosx]

Zagnuts have toasted coconut around a peanut butter center. The coconut is like a finely ground texture compressed around the peanut butter, interesting combo of creamy and crunchy textures.

[@user-yl9ez9lm9e]

@@dragonosx I really do appreciate everyone taking time out of their busy schedule, to explain this whimsical request. Thank you all.

[@allieniner675]

About 12 years ago, I went and bought a huge pack of Jelly Bellies, I went out for the night and just left them at home. Well when I came back home, 90% of them had been eaten. So I called my parents and my brother into the living room and stated “Which one of you at my Goddamn jelly beans”?! And to this day, everyone denies it…

[@atruceforbruce5388]

I actually like the toothpaste and grass clippings flavor.

[@Phoenix-ov5gg]

I loved these as a kid but I never bought them because they were so expensive..

[@princess_ama]

I played Beanboozled just once when I was in middle school. I had to brush my teeth THREE times to get the flavor out. It’s been over a decade and I still remember how bad they tasted. Never again! 🤮

[@cherrypink1108]

I love jelly beans. I don't really care for those giant ones you get at Easter though. My favorite flavor hmm I don't know they're almost all good.

[@Delcat42]

I can't believe I ate sardine jelly beans for a wizard who would later disavow my gender identity

[@Tinyoak2]

Buttered popcorn! I played that roulette thing with my kids and kept getting the disgusting ones. That game is banned here.

[@btetschner]

5:00 I watched Space Odyssey 2001 during the Total Eclipse! I drank Tang (which was made for Space) while watching the film.

[@dragonosx]

I bought a mixed bag of Jelly Belly beans and it sadly contained some of the nasty flavors, some of which were unidentifiably horrendous. I will pass on the discounted mixed flavor bags from now on. Their good flavors are great and their bad flavors are horrifying.

[@bunkley923]

8:16 is where the part about what you actually clicked on the video for starts thank me later

[@NiCholeMoody]

Licorice is my favorite flavor.

[@vsznry]

Harry Potter did so much for this brand.

[@TheRealPOTUSDavidByrd]

This is hilarious because the Newman's Own canned cheese dip at the store tastes like barf. I literally can't eat it, and neither could my ex partner. It's one of the few things we really agreed upon. Thanks, Newman, for making 3/5 totally okay frozen pizzas, and a 0/5 trauma bonding culinary experience between two wildly different individuals

[@Baguettelover9292]

The first time ive eaten jelly beans in years and this video pops up?

[@pvanukoff]

I didn't know Stephen Colbert narrated these.

[@BeerBreathBobby]

I am eating during this lol..... 😢

[@TheSmortPigeon]

The thing is old bandage actually tastes like the smell of an old bandage I almost vomited

[@RustyNickels]

They need to make a jenkem flavored jellybean.

[@Peskyhooligan]

I was promised about the barf jelly. *NOT A HISTORY*

[@ufc3459]

"Hope you're not eating" I already lost the food Also getting the taste by smell i understand far to well. My nose is messed up from something so i cant really smell anything unless its REALLY bad. I guess my taste buds got supercharged because if people start saying they smell something I'm trying not to run to the bathroom because the taste of whatever it is was overwhelming strong. Hell sometimes its like i taste better with my nose then actually eating

[@dennislogan6781]

Candy cigarettes please.

[@ming454]

The one with ear wax is pretty tasty, actually