22 of the World’s Craziest Jelly Bean Flavors

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Step into any candy store and you can find your normal cherry, cinnamon, and licorice jelly beans… but those willing to do a little digging will be rewarded with flavors more off the beaten path. From alcohol-inspired beans to things you’d never, ever want to taste in a non-bean form (baby wipes, anyone?), here are 22 of the weirdest jelly bean flavors out there.

1. DRAFT BEER

These alcohol-free jelly beans from Jelly Belly also come packaged in miniature beer bottles and cans.

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2. CHAMPAGNE

For the more sophisticated among you, Jelly Belly also sells champagne-flavored jelly beans.

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3. TABASCO

For those who want at least a little sweetness when they’re eating candy, Jelly Belly’s Tabasco-flavored jelly beans also come covered in dark chocolate.

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4., 5., AND 6. BARF, BOOGERS, AND BABY WIPES

Any list of weird jelly bean flavors would be incomplete without Jelly Belly’s BeanBoozled line, which cunningly mixes “weird and wild” flavors with normal flavors that look almost exactly like them. Will you get barf, boogers, and baby wipes or peach, juicy pear, and coconut? Do you want to risk it?

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7., 8., AND 9. EARTHWORM, EAR WAX, AND VOMIT

Jelly Belly also mixes yum with yuck with their Harry Potter tie-in Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans, though they do their customers a solid this time by not making the nasty and normal flavors look the same.

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10. PANCAKES AND MAPLE SYRUP

Who says you can’t eat candy for breakfast?

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11. HABANERO PEPPER

These “kick yo’ ass hot” jelly beans “taste just like a normal jelly bean when you start out and then WHAM!”

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12. EGG NOG

Jelly Belly’s “Holiday Favorites” pack features, among more normal flavors, egg nog jelly beans. Anyone who wants to buy Christmas spirit in bulk can get 10 pounds of the suckers for a cool 70 bucks.

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13. MARGARITA

Jelly Belly has a whole series of Cocktail Classics, which includes margarita, mojito, peach bellini, piña colada, pomegranate cosmo, and strawberry daiquiri-flavored beans.

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14. CHILI MANGO

This chili mango concoction from Jelly Belly was inspired by Latin America street food and “is made with real cayenne pepper, paprika, and mango juice.”

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15. LYCHEE

Jelly Belly’s lychee jelly beans can’t be found on JellyBelly.com; instead, you have to visit their international sites, like Australia or China, to see them.

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16. GREEN TEA

Green tea is another flavor listed only on non-U.S. Jelly Belly sites, like those for Germany and Greece.

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17. WASABI

Wasabi is one of the flavors in David’s Signature Beyond Gourmet jelly bean “Man Mix”; others include habanero, chipotle, sea salt, thai chili, and bacon. The official website lists packages of individual flavors as “coming soon.”

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18. BARBECUE BANANA

Jelly Belly’s “Beanaturals” assortment includes some normal flavors, like cherry, fruit punch, lime … and also “barbecue banana.” These have been discontinued, so they’re tough to find, but you can still turn them up if you do some digging.

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19. BACON

There’s bacon-flavored everything else, so why would jelly beans be any exception?

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20. TIRAMISU

Gourmet candy company Gimbal’s goes fancy with a tiramisu jelly bean, one of the 41 flavors found in their standard assortment.

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21. BUTTERED POPCORN

Buttered popcorn might seem like a weird flavor for a jelly bean, but it’s also a very popular one. It’s the second most popular flavor Jelly Belly sells, in fact, trailing number one seller Very Cherry by only eight million beans. 

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22. CHOCOLATE PUDDING

Jelly Belly sells chocolate pudding jelly beans for chocoholics on the go.

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