In October 1963, as Beatlemania was breaking out, fans of The Beatles in the United Kingdom pelted the band with jelly babies (or, in the United States, the much harder jelly beans) after it was reported that George Harrison liked eating them.

bursting with character and a big blackcurrant bite Pearl Stitch… a soft touch with a sharp lime taste Frau Zimmer… sweet like oranges, legs like jelly Mister Miser… tight with his wallet but generous with his strawberry tang. Unlike jelly babies, Jellyatrics are based on old-aged pensioners, and have their own names: Bill Bird ("Binoculars at the ready"), Mister Miser ("Penny pinching pensioner"), Pearl Stitch ("Speed knitting champion"), Frau Zimmer ("Legs like jelly") and Benny Dorm ("Karaoke king of the Costas").

Learn how to work the long tail cast on and how to estimate the length of yarn needed with our clear step by step tutorial and video. But the pricing of these, at one farthing each, suggests that they were very much larger than the modern Jelly Baby. I'm not sure if it was due to importing, or simply because of the rum flavouring, but they just tasted bitter and unpleasant to me. The theme of Tiger Nuts is of course all about tigers, from the patterned shell on the nuts, to the packaging design, and even the descriptions on the packs: Purrrrfect smoky bacon, Fearless salt and vinegar, Exotic sweet chilli, Mighty masala curry.

These are apparently popular in other parts of the word so maybe not as weird as they may seem to us Brits. Lindt Gold Bunny: The Lindt Gold Bunny arrived looking like he had already won, with his red ribbon and bell. Who said getting old had to be boring The jelly sweets are shaped to look like each character PERFECT NOVELTY GIFT - GUARANTEED TO BRING A GRIN THAT TURNS INTO A SMILE Their five fruity flavours are natural and contain no artificial colours.

Whilst in WH Smith recently, I saw this Thorntons Bramble Bunny next to the magazines and bought it on impulse, as you do.