Talk:Jelly Babies

Doctor Who
Was it Tom Baker as Doctor Who who offered people Jelly Babies or am I thinking of something else? Mintguy 09:53 Apr 27, 2003 (UTC)


 * No, you're quite right. There's even a serial where he arrives on a planet he last visited centuries earlier and discovers that he's passed into their mythology as a demonic figure who eats babies. :)
 * -- Paul A 02:38 Apr 28, 2003 (UTC)


 * Not just Tom Baker, either. I know Patrick Troughton and Paul McGann at least have also carried Jelly Babies as the good Doctor.
 * BTW, as Dave Barry might observe, 'Screaming Jelly Babies' would be a great name for a rock band.
 * -- Logotu 17:38, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I'll kill him with this poisoned jelly baby!
Didn't the Tom Baker Doctor once try to bluff his way out of trouble by threatening to kill a man with a "poisoned" jelly baby? I think it was in the episode "The Face of Evil".

The Doctor: (moves suddenly, next to one of his captors. He holds a jelly baby close to the first captor's mouth) Stay back! Or I'll kill this man with this poisoned jelly baby!

First captor: (looks at the jelly baby)

Second captor: (pause) Go on then.

The Doctor: (pause - he wasn't expecting that answer)....I'm sorry?

Second captor: Kill him.

(Pause as the Doctor wonders what to do, since the jelly baby is perfectly normal and obviously isn't going to do any harm whatsoever)

The Doctor: Nobody tells me what to do. (Eats the jelly baby)

The Doctor: Take me to your master.--88.108.32.188 22:20, 13 May 2006 (UTC)


 * "Deadly". Not "poisoned". Bloody hell, that's the most pointless thing I have ever written on Wikipedia... Angmering 15:22, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually, the correct words are these (from imdb.com quotes)

The Doctor: Now drop your weapons or I'll kill him with this deadly jelly baby.

(pause)

Warrior: Kill him, then.

The Doctor: What?

Warrior: Kill him, then.

The Doctor: I don't take orders from anyone.

[Eats jelly baby]

The Doctor: Take me to your leader.

--80.47.126.8 23:12, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Launch date
The carton of Bassett's Jelly Babies that I have in front of me says they were launched in 1919, not 1918 as claimed in the article.

Comparison to Gummy bears
Does anybody know what the difference is? I mean, other than shape, they appear to be identical. Is it just a UK/US thing? (I've never seen Jelly Babies in the US, not sure about Gummy Bears in the UK.) --Lurlock 17:05, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

There are not the same thing. Jelly Babies (the Bassetts variant anyway) are a kind of 2-layer affair: the inside is softer & jelly-like (softer than Gummi Bears) whilst the outside is a lot harder - almost waxy. If I had a digital camera, I would show you a cross-section which should help illustrate what I am trying to describe. Maybe someone else can :) -- Condiment 09:04, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Also, they taste totally different.--209.243.31.233 00:24, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Could someone add this information to the article for the benefit of those outside the UK? Tempshill (talk) 23:50, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Unclaimed Babies
I read in (I think) the National Trust magazine that Jelly Babies were originally launched in 18something and called Unclaimed Babies. Peace Babies was a 'rebranding'. Having said that, I can't find a reference to that with a very brief search 198.28.92.5 09:56, 8 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Tim Richardson's book Sweets: A History of Temptation backs this up. Apparently they were first launched in 1864 under the name "Unclaimed Babies" by Fryer's of Lancashire, and were invented by an Austrian confectioner named Steinboch. HonestTom 09:35, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

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Black Babies?
Weren't the black variety once generally referred to as Nigger Babies? That might explain why there aren't any black ones now. Saxophobia (talk) 16:50, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * except that there are still black ones, or at least there were in the packet I bought in the UK last week.Ghughesarch (talk) 00:41, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

The Beatles
If anyone wants to cite a reference for George Harrison's fondness for jelly babies, I think it's mentioned somewhere in Philip Norman's 1982 book Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation; if I recall correctly, the book quoted George's dislike for the American practice of throwing jelly beans onstage, because they hurt! B7T (talk) 19:57, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Peace babies
When the war ended some people didn't die so they had a celebration and they made babys and called them peace babies —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.241.229.10 (talk • contribs) 17:39, 11 November 2009
 * Peace Babies are already mentioned in the second paragraph of the article. --McGeddon (talk) 17:42, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Jelly Babies with jobs?
I seem to remember eating Jelly Babies or some other brand of the same sort of candy, made in shapes of people dressed for different occupations, like firemen or policemen. Does such a variation exist, or am I thinking of some other novelty candy? B7T (talk) 04:51, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Main Ingredients
The main ingredient of a Jelly Baby is emphatically not gelatin!

Ingredients in order:-

Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Water, Gelatine, Concentrated Fruit Juices** (1 %) (Apple, Lime, Orange, Strawberry, Blackcurrant, Lemon, Raspberry), Acid (Citric Acid), Flavourings, Colours (Anthocyanins, Paprika Extract, Vegetable Carbon, Lutein, Curcumin), **Equivalent to 5.5 % Fruit Juice

and 74G of every 100g of jelly babies is "sugars"

Cricketjeff (talk) 23:54, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Biggest Jelly Baby
I seem to remember my wife helping to manufacture the worlds largest Jelly Baby. If I remember correctly it was in 1988 weighing in around 130lb and approximately 3ft (0.9m) long. It had to be edible & was made by a team of ex Barker & Dobson employees at the James Keiller factory in Dundee. referenced by Daily Telegraph article December 1988Grumpyscrooge27 (talk) 20:12, 20 August 2021 (UTC)