Beans, Beans the Magical Fruit

In my ongoing efforts to be of service to my friends, I am going to tell you about a recent family experience.

My husband brought home some candy from his store one evening. He thought the kids would like it.

 

I was a bit nervous after reading the flavors and noticing they were made by the Jelly Belly Bean company.  I do recall the buttered popcorn flavor and how it really tasted just like popcorn with the entirely wrong texture.  However I assume no one would really make a sausage flavored jelly bean, or booger, right?

Harry Potter fans may recall Ron telling Harry they were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor beans and they do mean every flavor.  Or how Dumbledore said he lost his appetite for them after getting a vomit flavored one in his youth.

So when hubby started telling me of his experience with his late night sugar snack he stole from our precious babies, you can understand why I was died laughing.

 

He said the soap wasn't too bad, but as he made his way through the flavors he informed me he gagged on Sausage and then.... I stopped laughing and then???  I couldn't believe he continued to eat them.  He then proceeded to tell me incredulously that they had a boogey flavored one. Complete with a speckled green coloration with red flecks in it.  What is perhaps worse is that there is rotten egg, vomit and plenty of gag inducing flavors. 

 

 

 

Now knowing what I now knew, you would think that was the last of my hard earned money to be spent on these atrocities.  However it wasn't, once again on a visit to daddies store the boys wanted them.  Now this is where my evil mother genius mind kicks in. I though maybe they will stop asking for candy all the time after they get a load of these.  Just for the record it didn't work.  They didn't like them but it hasn't curbed their candy like at all.  Just for the record too, I tried a couple.  Soap really wasn't too bad, however after the tiniest possible bite off a small jelly bean I found out they weren't lying about Bacon flavor and that was as far as my squeamish stomach wanted to go...

 

While they are undoubtedly the most disgusting candy I will ever try, according to this guy they aren't the worst out there, he has a top 10 of the grossest candy out there.

No tiene nada aqui.

Yeah, there ain't too much going on down here.

Yes, I typed ain't, the redneck vibes are sinking in more...

Last week was the fair and of course we had a grand time.

Max had a great conversation with a big blue butt hog.

Z got a deputy badge from the sheriff's posse and insisted I address him as Sheriff the rest of the week.

Oh yeah and grandma (Nonie) bought them new cowboy hats a the big western stores annual fair sale.

And we got eight more chickens, that brings the total up to nine, if you are counting. 

Hanging out at the county fair was fun, I used to show steers and have many fond memories of the fair.

Speaking of fond memories, I ran into a lot of people at the fair, I hadn't seen around town yet.

The most popular question was "How do you like living here again."

Of course I smiled and gave an appropriate small talk answer.

But I have to admit it's kind of weird.  It seems like I am constantly finding myself transported back 16 years ago or more.  I am surprised how much that girl from back then is still around.  I am surprised I can say I did anything sixteen years ago.  I am surprised the friends who were "expecting" senior year have kids that will be juniors this year.  I am surprised how the girls are easy to recognize in the women they have become.  I am surprised how the guys are  harder to place, how they look like "men."  I am surprised that the hot new teacher when I was in 9th grade, is still good looking, but he looks old.  I am surprised some people don't see that seventeen year old girl who used to live here. I am surprised that how many times I just had to correct surpised with the spell check. 

 

So like I said.... No tiene nada aqui....