Earwax Beans

originally posted: 11/27/01

Brought to you by J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter stories.

Harry Potter, in case you didn't know, is a young wizard who inhabits a world full of magical people, creatures, devices and food products. One such is Bertie Bott's Any Flavor Beans, the magical equivalent of Jelly Belly jellybeans — except, as the name implies, Bert's beans can and do come in any flavor you can imagine. In addition to chocolate and raspberry and other pleasing flavors, Bott beans might taste like sawdust, asparagus or earwax, or worse. A bad bean experience early on can put a person off for years, as in the case of Harry's school headmaster Professor Dumbledore; he got a barf bean as a child and never craved the candy again.