As usual, bacon played a big part in our Christmas celebration. We started out with beef bacon at breakfast, bacon related gifts were exchanged, and I spent some time showcasing this blog for unenlightened relatives. But as often happens in my family, someone took bacon love one step too far. This year it was in the form of Harry Potter “Bertie Bott’s Beans.”
These very strange jelly beans come in flavors that you wouldn’t imagine eating in any form, including vomit, soap, sardine and dirt. So it angers me a bit that they would throw a bacon flavored jelly bean into the mix – as if the taste of bacon can be compared to any of the aforementioned flavors. But being the bacon maven that I am, I obligingly agreed to try the bacon flavored jelly bean. It’s even colored to look like a red marbled jelly bean form of bacon. And as you would imagine, it was pretty disgusting. There was a hint of a smoky bacon flavor to it, but it also had that sweet, sugary jelly bean taste. I had to choke it down and then chase it with my mimosa.
And yes, my younger cousins did try the other disgusting flavors, including the vomit. I think we all learned our lesson and I assume this delicacy will not resurface at any future family events.
Happy Christmahannukwanzikah!