When I was little, jelly beans were found in most stores at only one time of the year and that was during the Easter season. The choices were very limited, typically the regular assorted bag of flavors and colors or bags of spiced jelly beans. Today, there is vast array of jelly bean choices along with some unusual flavors. And you can find jelly beans all year long on the store shelves or via the Internet. The most popular year-round jelly bean is probably Jelly Belly. They come in dozens of colors and flavors such as the pretty multi-colored tutti fruiti flavored ones to the surprisingly delicious buttered popcorn ones, to the intensely flavored jalapeo Jelly Belly jelly beans.
Jelly beans are definitely not just for Easter anymore. One of my favorite things to receive is a bag of jelly beans that announce the birth of a baby. Ive received little bags of either pink or blue jelly beans announcing Its as Girl or Its a Boy. Theyre cute and something thats a little different than the chocolate candy bars many people hand out for new baby births and certainly not as bad for your health as the cigars that new dads used to routinely hand out when their new baby was...