Bertie Bott's-Every-Flavour Beans

Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans were one of the most popular sweets in the wizarding world. Invented by Bertie Bott, they were almost the same as Muggle jelly beans, except the range encompassed every flavour imaginable. There was also no way of telling for sure what flavour any given bean was without tasting it, although you could try and guess by the colour.There were ordinary flavours like chocolate, peppermint, and marmalade, but also less fanciable ones like spinach, liver, and tripe. There were also flavours that were not actual foods like grass, farm dirt, vomit, earwax, paper, and bogeys.At Sugarplum's Sweets Shop, they were priced at 6 Sickles per box.
==History==
The inventor of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans was the eponymous Bertie Bott, who created them in the mid-20th century by mistake. He was planning on making tasty sweets from food, but accidentally made one taste like a dirty sock. He immediately recognised the sales potential of "a risk with every mouthful!"
According to Ron Weasley, there are ordinary flavours like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but also more adventuresome ones like spinach and liver and tripe. George Weasley said he had a bogey-flavoured bean once.
In 1992, while Harry was in the hospital wing, he offered one to Professor Dumbledore. Dumbledore told him that he had been unfortunate enough to have come across a vomit-flavoured one in the past, and since that occasion, he had not cared for them. In spite of this, he decided to give them another chance and carefully selected a golden brown-coloured one that he assumed would be toffee-flavoured, but it turned out to be an earwax-flavoured bean.
They were advertised at the 422nd Quidditch World Cup on a large sign, showing how famous and popular they are. The advertisement at the cup stated: "Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans--A Risk with Every Mouthful!"
==Popularity==
Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans were a popular sweet for students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They bought them from the lunch trolley on the Hogwarts Express and from Honeydukes in Hogsmeade. They gave them for Christmas gifts and as gifts when someone was ill and in the Hospital Wing. Bertie Bott's Beans were sold in bags or in small striped boxes.
==Known flavours==
*Almond
*Apple
*Banana
*Belly button lint
*Blackberry
*Black Pepper
*Bogey
*Blueberry
*Blueberry pie
*Buttered popcorn
*Candyfloss
*Cherry
*Chicken
*Chilli Powder
*Chocolate cake
*Cinnamon
*Cranberry
*Cream puff
*Dirt
*Dirty Sock
*Dog food
*Earthworm
*Envelope glue
*Farm dirt
*Feet
*Fish
*Fried egg
*Grape jelly
*Grapefruit
*Gravy
*Green apple
*Ham
*Honey
*Horseradish
*Ketchup
*Lemon
*Lobster
*Marmalade
*Marshmallow
*Mashed Potatoes
*Mint
*Mustard
*Onion
*Orange
*Peach
*Pear
*Phlegm
*Pink Grapefruit
*Pizza
*Roast beef
*Rotten egg
*Spaghetti
*Steak
*Sulphur
*Toffee
*Toffee Apple
*Toffee pudding
*Tomato
*Troll bogey
*Tutti-frutti
*Vanilla Ice cream
*Watermelon
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==Behind the scenes==
*Albus Dumbledore said that he had the misfortune of coming across a vomit-flavoured bean in his youth. As he was 53 or 54 years old when the inventor was born, this would seem unlikely but Dumbledore had a great fondness for sweets it is mentioned on more than one occasion. However, given his old age, it is possible Dumbledore perceived himself as still being in his youth at that stage of his life.
*It seems unlikely that consumers are able to tell the difference between certain flavours, such as Marshmallow and Toasted Marshmallow, Lemon and Lemon Drop, and Dirt and Farm Dirt. It is possible that they are somehow enchanted to allow a person to know its flavour once they have tasted the bean, but no explanation is given of where their certainty comes from.
*The packaging in the Harry Potter films was designed by Ruth Winick.
*In the real world, Jelly Belly Candy Company released jelly beans with selected flavours from the series. There are currently 25 flavours available. The review website Candy Addict rated these candies as #4 of the "10 grossest candies." The Bertie Bott's candies may have been inspired by Jelly Belly, which produces jellybeans in unexpected flavours like jalapeño and encourages consumers to eat different-flavoured jellybeans in combination to create different flavours.
*At the , Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans can be purchased at Honeydukes Sweetshop.
*In , Dumbledore is seen offering three large chests of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans to Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the Hospital Wing, and instead of eating an earwax-flavoured bean, he eats one which causes him to burp up soap bubbles, a possible nod to the soap-flavoured bean.
*In the visual experience in , players could find these beans in the Hogwarts Express. The description of these beans was: "Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavour Beans really do come in all flavours, from chocolate to earwax and marmalade to liver."
**On , Beans mostly looked like whatever food they were flavoured from.
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Category:Christmas Day Presents
Category:Sweets