Tikkabik

Dear makers of Jelly Belly jelly beans:

I applaud your candymakers' ability to come up with potent and memorable flavors for your jelly beans. It's quite unusual to taste the distinct flavors of cantaloupe, caramel apple and chocolate pudding in a jelly bean confection.

However, I'd like to posit that many of us enjoy more than just one jelly bean at a time, and for the most part, your retail penetration consists of bags that carry all the assorted 50 flavors. And when you get kiwi, cinnamon, margarita, cafe latte and buttered popcorn in rapid succession or, heaven forfend, in the same bite, the olfactory effect is the equivalent of mashing all the keys of a piano down at once.

Could be worse, I suppose. After biting into one too many vomit or bogey flavored beans, I've given up on the Harry Potter Bernie Bott's Every Flavor Beans version. Though I do have a weakness for the bacon-flavored ones.

Thank you for your kind attention.