November 27th, 2007
#386 - Bertie
I like black jelly beans. This works out great for me because most people I know don’t like them. I like sampling the different flavors of black jelly beans that I run into. Some are very strong licorice but some of them really just taste like sugar.
Looks like our rush of orders is almost done. Amanda should have the rest of the books and shirts shipped by the end of the week. There’s plenty more to go around. Do you know someone that likes to laugh but has never seen Biff? The book would make a great gift!
November 27th, 2007 at 12:02 am
I love black jelly beans too! I didn’t used to…but I really got used to the taste, now I love it!
Better than the soap flavored ones anyways..
November 27th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Heehee, that reminds me of part of stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan’s routine: He’s talking about different types of peanut butter, and he notices ‘Extreme Chunky’. He buys some, and takes it home. When he opens it, it turns out it’s just peanuts.
I think an Extreme Chunky peanut butter and jelly bean sandwich would be awesome.
November 27th, 2007 at 12:13 am
Oh! Black jelly beans ARE the best.
I had a friend who once tried a peanut butter and gummi bear sandwich, thinking that it would be like PB&J. She said it wasn’t great. And now she’s allergic to peanuts.
November 27th, 2007 at 12:29 am
I like the pink ones with blue spots.
November 27th, 2007 at 12:34 am
The juxtaposition of the Biff comics always amuse me. Biff can make a leaf burning hat one day (and be in no danger what so ever) and the next he’s spreading jelly beans with a knife. You’d think he would have some kind of crazy tool made for the task, as clearly he had enough time to design and test a leaf burning hat. But no, he uses a simple butter knife, which is the tool everyone uses when you don’t have the right tool for the occasion (exception, buttering toast.) He doesn’t even have some unrelated contraption that he could adapt to the job, like a steam press he uses to iron his eyebrows or pocket lazer beam pen. Biff uses a butter knife, and I think we all wonder if he has some crazy gadget that would do it faster. Next comic he might be on terraforming Mars (successfuly!) or loosing at checkers against his toaster. Maybe, just maybe, it will be both.
November 27th, 2007 at 1:36 am
I like back jelly beans too.. And the bubblegum.. And the popcorn.
I like most jelly beans to be fair
November 27th, 2007 at 1:36 am
Nice Harry Potter reference
I really hope those aren’t dung beetle flavoured
The Duck Has Spoken.
November 27th, 2007 at 2:49 am
I like eating black jelly beans about as much as I like eating whole star anise, which is to say not a lot.
November 27th, 2007 at 3:57 am
Ahh yes, jellybeans. After tasting the wonders of Jelly Belly brand beans every other type of jellybean tastes like generic low-grade sugar. Jelly Belly definitely deserves the title of “gourmet”
Heck, they even made the Bertie beans for the Harry Potter movies (and the following buyable versions :P)
Eating Jelly Belly brand beans has become a new Christmas tradition for me now
But I don’t like the black ones, even in gourmet form 
November 27th, 2007 at 4:15 am
Just to be picky…
Black jellybeans aren’t actually liquorice flavoured, they’re aniseed.
November 27th, 2007 at 4:16 am
November 27th, 2007 at 5:25 am
I fail to get the Harry Potter reference PsychoDuck mentioned.
However, I have to say that Biff looks unusually contemplative here rather than frustrated or annoyed. Maybe trying to spread jelly beans is a Zen process for him?
…Does Biff ever plant jelly beans to grow crops of jelly?
November 27th, 2007 at 8:18 am
brilliant comic…and just got the book in the mail, brilliant
November 27th, 2007 at 9:23 am
@Kassil the Erratic:
Check the comic title.
I like the black beans, too. As does my wife. We have to get two bags off them at Easter, or there’ll be a fight.
November 27th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Love jelly beans,hate black ones
November 27th, 2007 at 10:12 am
I also love jelly beans, though I usually find a place where I can pick an exact flavor or two at a time. With assorted jelly beans, I throw out the black ones. Until now, I thought everyone knew they were rotten. That’s why you have to get to the single-flavor places when they’re still ripe.
November 27th, 2007 at 10:18 am
I like to take the jelly beans and roll them up in fruit roll ups and call them my sugar burritos. Mmmmm…. chewy!
November 27th, 2007 at 10:57 am
I never much cared for jelly beans.
They are generic and have nothing
unusual about them. Jelly beans
have no personality, unlike Biff…
November 27th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
The black ones are the best. Black jujubes too. I don’t have to worry about sharing, since everyone else thinks they’re nasty.
November 27th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
That explains it. I see the feed on LJ, where I’ve trained myself to avoid looking at post titles to avoid pointless shots of Angsting, Whining, and General Emo Behavior from others, so I missed the title.
November 27th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
I wanna try that now… My favorite jelly beans are the Starburst ones, those are awesome, especially the pink ones.
November 27th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
My favorite jelly bean would be the Jelly Belly Popcorn flavor myself…
November 28th, 2007 at 5:48 am
I love jelly beans, but when i was ten and my teeth falling out like crazy, i had the worst easter
November 28th, 2007 at 5:49 am
black jelley beans rule,
November 28th, 2007 at 10:07 am
I like black, I hate popcorn beans, they taste awful.
btw, has anyone had those bertie botts every flavor ones? how does toilet taste like?
November 28th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
oh, i remember my aunt who always bought like 1 liter jars for every kid in the family and filled them with jellybeans for christmas.
granted, there were only 7 or 7 kids back then, but man, they were the big gourmet ones that would almost melt in your mouth if left alone long enough.
never found out where she bought them from, or i’d go there every year and get myself a bag.
sigh….
November 28th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
oh and i like the pink ones.
strawberry, cotton candy, pink lemonade…
you don’t get a bad pink flavor.
ever.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:08 am
…Bott’s!
November 29th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
The only thing I don’t like about black jellybeans is that they leave my tongue looking dark purplish blue. Maybe the ones I eat are just odd.
November 30th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
When I buy jelly beans, I always ate the green ones first. Then the blue ones, and black, and red, then yellow, etc. My least favorite jelly beans are the popcorn flavored ones. I ate a popcorn-flavored one once and actually threw up.
Not pleasant.
December 6th, 2007 at 8:55 am
in response to ‘the scarf’ why do people insist on making soap flavoured sweets?
April 10th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
You can have my black jellys if I ever somehow end up with some. I dunnot like them at all. Same with the licorice.
April 13th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I used to love the black jelly beans, but then I realized if you eat too many of them…everything you eat will start tasting like them.
Then I stopped liking jelly beans all together.
Hey, is it just me, or the the bread…decompose?
Great comic!
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:49 pm
i had a substitute in high school who gave out candy, and if you liked the licorice candy you got more than one, plus he knew my grandmother and liked to announce it to the class so I got extra candy for the embarisment and the liking the black gum drops, worked out great for me.