Talk:jelly bellies

Plural form of Jelly Belly?
The noble Jelly Belly. It's easily the most whimsically variegated candy species of all time, both in appearance and flavor. Offered a choice, many of us have learned to hastily pluck up personal favorites such as "Popcorn" and "Coconut" while the gettin's good. We carefully shun "Jalapeño" and "Carolina Reaper," the latter of which furiously fries your socks off at 2.2 MILLION Scoville units. That ill-conceived triple dog dare is clearly an unfortunate means of euthanasia.

Even the Harry Potter franchise launched a wizardly Jelly Belly(R) assortment with wicked landmines such as "Vomit," "Dirt," "Grass," and "Earwax" under the innocent guise of variety and diversity. This candy is plainly, purposefully plural. If there's someone out there who has never eaten more than a single Jelly Belly(R), we are bold to say: sorry to have abducted you from your remote tribe in the Amazon, please keep the iPad.

The rest of us know how to *say* more than one of this wildly successful confection popularized--in part--by Ronald Reagan, because not a man jack of us has ever thought to stop eating Jelly Belly(s) after one lonely bean. Yes, everybody knows to *say* more than one bean of necessity--simply tack on /z/ after the name. But how shall we *write* its plural form?

The official website deftly deflects drama by saying "Jelly Belly candies." And it certainly isn't "jelly bellies" in all lower case, since the highly evolved iteration replacing plain, old garden variety jelly beans is a proper brand name, dontchaknow. Like with initial caps and a wee superscript [R] inside a circle bringing up the rear.

Alternatively, if you write the two words with exclusively lower-case letters, you're only fat-shaming people with ample midsections. I don't truck with such. That dog won't hunt.

I further refuse to recognize "Jelly Belly's," because this violent mutation of the possessive [apostrophe] + [s] is STILL a felonious linguistic aberration no matter *how* common it's become as of June, 2024. In fact, I'd sooner chug jet fuel and belch in a bonfire than lend credence to that nonsensical lazy-ism. What. If that isn't a word, why, it oughta be. Go ask your mom.

Does anyone out there know the correct way to express the concept of multiples when writing of more than a single Jelly Belly? Jtischcb (talk) 10:27, 30 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Jelly Bellies. CitationsFreak (talk) 10:50, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank You!! Jtischcb (talk) 11:23, 30 June 2024 (UTC)