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Was it Tom BakerasDoctor 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. :)
I'll kill him with this poisoned jelly baby![edit]
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)
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.) --Lurlock17:05, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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 :) -- Condiment09:04, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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 198.28.92.509:56, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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. HonestTom09:35, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
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
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)[reply]
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)[reply]