New hypo treatment...

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Northerner said:
I'm in a dilemma now. As a Yorkshireman, I really ought to eat up all the green jelly babies left in my jar and get full value for money, but as a weak human being I'm sorely tempted to try the new flavours (should the opportunity present itself, of course - might have to go out and dig the garden for a while! 🙂)
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Green jelly babies are the worst! I always palm them off to my other half and act as though I'm being nice by sharing my sacred and well guarded hypo treatment 😉
 
Emma Diabetes UK said:
Green jelly babies are the worst! I always palm them off to my other half and act as though I'm being nice by sharing my sacred and well guarded hypo treatment 😉
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You may not have read my poem about the awful green ones... 😱 :D


Ghastly Green Jelly Babies


My favourite treatment for when my blood sugar levels drop low is two or three jelly babies – they’re tasty, quick to act and a welcome compensation for the hypo sweats and shakes. However, there comes a time in the life of every box of Jelly Babies when you realise that, with racing heart and blurring sight, you’ve eaten every colour except the green ones! From that point on it is a battle between your rational mind knowing that they still contain the same amount of precious sugar as all the other colours, and will do just as good a job, and that nagging voice in your subconscious telling you that they are evil transdimensional denizens of some dark nether-universe, here to wreak anguish and madness on all who bring them to their lips…

It cannot be so far away,
When dawns that dreadful, fateful day
As, reaching to treat my hypo shocks,
I find just green ones in the box!

Oh, tell me Mr Basset please
Why waste your time producing these?
Tart on tongue, and jealous hue,
An aberration! Shame on you!

For lusty red, beguiling black
I could consume those by the sack!
Bright orange, sunny yellow too –
I’d even accept a baleful blue!

But green brings foaming at the mouth,
One eye looks North, the other South,
Gripped by a kind of emerald rabies,
The Dark Lord of the Jelly Babies! 😱 :D
 
Had a pleasant surprise, the green ones in the tropical packs are pineapple flavour! Great improvement. You could always mix the packs together, @Northerner, and play Russian roulette with the green ones when you next have a gardening hypo.
 
Robin said:
Had a pleasant surprise, the green ones in the tropical packs are pineapple flavour! Great improvement. You could always mix the packs together, @Northerner, and play Russian roulette with the green ones when you next have a gardening hypo.
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That would be a bit like Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Jelly Beans from Harry Potter! 😱 🙂
 
Robin said:
Had a pleasant surprise, the green ones in the tropical packs are pineapple flavour! Great improvement. You could always mix the packs together, @Northerner, and play Russian roulette with the green ones when you next have a gardening hypo.
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That answers the question I was going to ask! Piña, yum! In the jelly sweets that I buy, the green ones are apple...what flavour are green JBs anyway? Bogie? Lav cleaner? 😱🙂
 
Bloden said:
That answers the question I was going to ask! Piña, yum! In the jelly sweets that I buy, the green ones are apple...what flavour are green JBs anyway? Bogie? Lav cleaner? 😱🙂
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Sort of 'green flavour'. I do not share the aversion to the green ones in particular as others on here, just not keen on such a sugar hit. However needs must, so once hypo I don't much care what flavour.

Green pineapple ones sound weird.
 
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