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Teddy
bears love jelly babies and many like to bite off the left
let first; not idea why though. I love making jelly baby wine
with my teddy friends by treading on them (jelly babies that
is, not my friends)! My favorite grub is jelly baby sandwiches
with the crusts removed.
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Jelly
Babies were originally called Peace Babies when they were
made by Basset’s in celebration the end of the First World
War. Production stopped during Second World War but returned
in 1953 renamed Jelly babies.
Cadbury Schweppes took them over in 1989 Jelly babies honouring
them a more streetwise look. Each of the six Jelly Babies
- who live in a wibberly wobberly world of their own - was
given a name and character; they are:
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Bonny
- Pink,
who wears a nappy and frilly bonnet
Boofuls
- Blue,
who is always crying
Bumper
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Green,
clumsy with a funny shape, and wears a bum-bag
Bubbles
– Yellow,
a female, has a ponytail
Big
Heart - Black/Grey,
wears trainers
Brilliant
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Red, leader
of the gang, and wears green baseball boots
In 2007, Bassett's Jelly Babies
changed to include only natural colours and ingredients so
they colours shown above may not be the ones now sold.
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description: Fruit flavoured jelly confectionary with natural
colours and flavours |
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Ingredients:
Wheat glucose syrup, sugar, water, starch (maize and wheat),
gelatine, food acids (citric acid, malic acid), vegetable
fat, natural flavours, natural colours (turmeric, carmine,
chlorophyll, carotene, paprika oleoresin, anthocyanins)
Nutritional Information:
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Servings
per package
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4
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Serving
size
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45g
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Per
serving
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Per
100g
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Energy
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617kJ
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1370kJ
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Protein
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1.4g
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3.2g
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Fat
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0.1g
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0.3g
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Includes
saturated fat
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0.1g
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0.2g
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Carbohydrate
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34.4g
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76.4g
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Includes
Sugars
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24.5g
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54.5g
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Sodium
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32mg
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70mg
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Research
has discovered that women who have children were more likely
to bite the heads off first, where childless women ate them
whole. No great psychological conclusions have been drawn
from this.
Under
the guise of education and entertainment at school open evenings
Jelly Babies are sometimes tortured by being subjected to
a strong oxidizing agent. When this cruel act is performed
the jelly baby bursts into flames and scream. They are thought
to smell of smell candy-floss under these conditions.
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In
blindfold taste tests, the most popular flavour was strawberry,
followed by lime, blackcurrant, lemon, raspberry, and orange.
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Three million Jelly Babies are eaten every week. They are permanent
contenders in the Top 20 sweeties chart, with sales of 14 million
pounds a year. |
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Late MP for Tottenham, Bernie Grant, was rumoured to
want black Jelly Babies banned as (it is said) he claimed they
were racist.
How innocent little sweets can be racist, I’ve yet to comprehend,
do sweets have minds? Who knows, maybe they do; us teddy bears
do so why not sweets fashioned into the shape of human beings! |
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Dr Who, as played by Tom Baker with his long scarf favoured
Jelly Babies, maybe if he shared them with the Darleks, they
would have been less hostile. |
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After
reading that he liked them Beatles fans showered guitarist
George Harrison in Jelly Babies at concerts and sent them
as gifts.
As Jelly babies were unobtainable in the USA American fans
pelted George and the rest of the band with jelly beans instead.
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