HUGE THANK YOU from Jen and B to everyone who has watched and supported the channel during this crazy year! You are all the best and we cant wait to continue making videos for you in 2021!
Can't believe this is your last video of the year already! 2020 may have been crazy but this channel has made it such a fun year! I especially loved all of the summer livestreams!
@@FriendB Exactly! A true measure of the quality of chocolate is how much better it would make you feel after a dementor encounter. From their reactions, it seems this chocolate would not have been effective. Which is rather annoying, considering the prices they charge for this stuff. You can buy high-quality chocolate practically anywhere else for the same price.
They changed the cauldron cakes a few years ago, the ones they had when Hogsmeade first opened were fresh moist chocolate cake filled with fluffy chocolate mousse and it was DELICIOUS
The cocoa pods are apparently picked without child labour, so it's more expensive for the 'same' product. The HPA had a whole campain about it and got them to make ethically sourced chocolate frogs.
Their reaction to the wands makes me want to do a line of chocolate wands where each character's wand is a different percentage of chocolate (the Elder wand would be 100%); I'd also use fair trade sustainable chocolate; getting permission would be the biggest obstacle I think
If you do it, you should put a “core” in them. Like a unicorn hair could be marshmallow or something. Phoenix feather could have a cinnamon flavor gummy middle. I’m not a candy maker so I’m sure there are better idea. But I would pay good money to have different flavor combination wands!
This reminds me, MHA has (or had Idk if it's still going) chocolate bars with flavours based off characters. I think that would be so cool if you could find a way to mix the flavours and everything into a wand size. Like Harry may be orange dark chocolate and ron would be milk chocolate and pretzel etc etc, /pos
Make them have whatever type of chocolate on the outside and then a filling that would match what that character is wand core would be so perhaps a phoenix feather core could be something red and spicy. Different types and cocoa percentages of chocolate could represent different types of wood.
They could improve so much using medium-quality chocolate like Hershey’s. I vote for a contest recreating these candies. My daughter and I want the chocolate flies to be chocolate covered hard candy filled with gel. That way you bite through the exoskeleton and then the goo. Different types of flies and flavors would be great.
I was going to say they should at least have made the chocolate covered flies as like a gummy fly covered in chocolate but I like this idea even better.
@@strangerscience3659 oh, a dozen times better, but it's tragically some nondescript low quality chocolate. If it's so much worse than American name brands that they can only compare it to chocolate so cheap that it went down to 15 cents, it would be unrecognisably improved if Cadbury Dairy Milk was used instead.
@@alastorholmes5208 Ben took the quiz a while ago and got Ravenclaw but he's stubborn and is determined to be Slytherin - which is a very Slytherin thing to do 🤔
@@rhilou32 U.S. too. I don't think they're even marketed, and rarely stocked in stores, outside of the holiday season. At least not in the areas I've been around.
I left myself a reminder for today from last year that just said "Super Carlin Bros Candy" and couldn't remember why, so I found this episode and re-watched to see why... Did not disappoint, happy expiration date to the acid pops 🥳😄
I would love it if the shock-o-chock bits had like different strong flavours for maximum shock. Like you don't know whether you will get spicy, salty, sour ect.
I would prefer they add different flavors to different candies rather than having one spicy and a bunch of boring chocolate. Flies can be sour, frogs can be salted caramel, etc.
Yeah. Watching this video has pretty much convinced me not to buy any of this stuff. For the same price, I can buy high-quality candy practically anywhere else.
A lot of these are inspired by traditional British/English sweets. My aunty (from Glasgow) loved coconut ices and Bon Bons. And the chocolate ball you brake (I think they said they had a Xmas) is Terry’s chocolate orange and very popular and I love them
I came to say re coconut ice, they are big nostalgia sweets and quite easy to home make so I could completely see them being a mrs weasley make for the weasley kids to have as sweets growing up
As someone from England, the coconut ice confused me. It's not magical, it's British. It's a common thing over here, especially near the English coast.
I think its because professor sprout gives them it from when I last was on pottermore prior to j.k turning me sour on harry potter aside from my childhood memories
Smarties are a lot better in Canada in the states smarties are the same thing or almost as rockets still sometimes call them the wrong thing for the states and confuse everyone
My wife and I always get a few things from Honeyduke’s & Weasleys’ Wizard Wheazes each time we go to Universal in Orlando (8 trips so far) and apparently we still have a ton of new candy to try! There are a few things we’ve had that are probably in their pile of “generic looking candy” that I would recommend: 1.) Salt Water Taffy - Box of Assorted Flavors - tastes great, easy to share, and you can usually find them in Honeyduke’s for 50% off an already great price. 2.) Lemon Drops/Sherbet Lemons - Dumbledore’s iconic candy, and comes in a nice glass jar with the Honeyduke’s logo on it. 3.) Emergency Chocolate Bar - Just like a “Hershey’s” chocolate bar, but the wrapper design is just like it is in the films.
also, that they haven't seen coconut ice and rock before...such old fashioned basic sweets, but why would they have had them unless they were visiting a Tenby or blackpool or something XD
The Jen and B reference to Gred and Forge is hilarious. 😂 It's my favorite Fred and George quote and the moment I saw your shirts, I knew what was coming 😂 Love your videos so much! Every single one. It's healing a small part of me. Desperately waiting for the next episode of Through The Griffin Door. Keep up the amazing work. ❤
Okay, J and Ben requested someone comments if they’re watching this on “July 16, 2021” so now I’m going to set a reminder to do that on July 16 next year, expect an edit on this comment in a few months J and Ben! Well it’s July 16 2021, and it’s times to edit my comment.
They sell most of these sweets also at the studio tour in London and that chocolate is actually really good. When I tried the one from the US I was very disappointed 😂 so if you ever get the chance to taste the candy from the wbst in the UK, I’m sure you’ll like that a lot better!
Thank you for this comment I was confused as to why they were saying the chocolate was bad, have really enjoyed it from the studio tour London! They need to do a followup video with sweets from the UK studios and compare =)
They're probably not gonna see this but I'm honestly wondering about your take on how powerful Mr. Weasley is, the charms he put on his car and hagrid motorbike are significantly strong, like the dragon fire is something we never see summoned by a wizard or object before that point, and the invisibility charm is supposed to be very difficult. I'm just wondering how much of a feat those vehicles are
Thank you so much for being so descriptive about the flavors. Really appreciated that. I like the interaction between the two of you. It's easy to see that you're not just brothers but your friends as well.
Our chocolate frogs in South Africa were made of Turkish delight dipped in chocolate. It actually felt like a squishy frog! (This was many years ago!) Also, also, the quality of candy depends on which country it was made in. I had a proper chocolate frog from the Netherlands which was Belgian chocolate. Also, I got Dumbledore :D
J and Ben eating wine gums for the first time is something I never thought I'd see. Also yes, you are correct in that they are a traditional british *sweet* not candy, they are in fact my favourite
HEY! They actually DO make the cocolate frogs with just plastic frogs that look great! (Found at walmart in 2019). At the time i was confused why it wasn't real chocolate! Now I know!
I thought it was fine, what I didn't like was that is was solid. I thought it would be like the chocolate bunnies you get at easter, but no joke, it was so hard to eat I still had it almost a year later. I decided to just smash it up and eat the pieces. The card was great though, with that foil effect that changes when you turn it.
I loved the fact that it was solid! I bought one when I was in Florida and the frog lasted me three days! It's soooooo much better than the UK one cause that ones smaller and less impressive. I do like the UK fizzing whizbees ^^
I remember liking the chocolate frog. I was confused that they didn't like it...until I realized it was a different chocolate frog. The one I had was small and soft, one of the ones they sold at books-a-million when the books originally came out.
I don’t know why that tickled me so much but the “it was better than the flies” comment was hilarious. Like imagine if someone’s not fully listening and just heard that part 😂😂😂
@@harperthegoblin Uhm, ok, but thats just a baseless assumption and inherent distrust from you? Or what else? Your proof that he lies about wanting to help? Inherent distrust why?
@@harperthegoblin Uhm, ok, but thats just a baseless assumption and inherent distrust from you? Or what else? Your proof that he lies about wanting to help?
@@loturzelrestaurant He went around and asked people who otherwise would have had no association to the video just to get them to dislike it. Also what's up with the double comment?
I remember getting Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, and before I ate the black pepper one, my sinuses were so stopped up that it affected my hearing w/o me realizing how bad my hearing was. However, after chewing and swallowing the black pepper bean, my eyes were watering, nose running, and my ears popped. All of a sudden I heard water dripping. I thought it was coming from the bathroom which was next to my bedroom where I had sampled said bean. However, it turned out the dripping was coming all the way from the kitchen sink. So, anyone who is suffering from sinuses, it's a good cure. The flavor is very close to biting into an actual peppercorn.
Coming across this 4 months later, I have to tell you about an amazing cockroach candy, which might not exist, anymore. Here in Los Angeles there was a store called Whimsic Alley filled with Potter merch. The candies included Dementors Kisses (like sour patch kids but not kids) and beautiful cockroaches. The 3 inch body was shaped of gummy, I maybe remember swirled grape-and-something-else flavored, but the hard wings/carapace covering it was shaped of hard sugar. The whole bug was highly detailed; I hated to eat it, but it was so good. I bought another, later on. I wish I could remember the company name.
So you guys actually missed my favorite candy from Honeydukes, it could be discontinued I haven’t been there is two years, but if your are a fan of dark chocolate and peppermint they had Peppermint toads. Initially I thought pepper imps would be peppermint but it was more like hot cinnamon. But the peppermint toads were delicious and great if you throw them in the freezer. If you want a quick sweet you can just grab one from the freezer and it melts in your mouth. I don’t think you guys got the Pepper Imps either but you didn’t miss out on much.
Yess! I was waiting the whole video hoping maybe it was in a hidden bag or something! Seems a shame that they didn't get to try the Peppermint Toads! Although I was at Universal Studios Japan earlier this year, and they didn't have them, either (though they didn't have MOST of these candies there).
@@SuperCarlinBrothers reminds me of the time I had too much Icecream. Have a great Christmas I hope you get to spend time with the people you wanted to. Byeee Brotherrrrr!
Ben and jay : does anyone even like candy canes? Me :giggling My fiancé: I have been offended, candy canes are amazing and entirely underrated Me : laughs harder
@@khorvair I was very confused at this comment as well. I thought everyone knew what their names were. Apparently people are just not as huge of fans. I, personally, know their names are Jen and B.
About 18 or 19 years ago at Hastings they had Bertie Bott's, chocolate frogs, and fizzing whizbees. The frogs were in a wrapper and in the chocolate to simulate the "hopping" aspect it had pop rocks. Also the whizbees were like orange balls that kinda looked like Saturn and tasted like a dream cicle. I think they also had the pumpkin pasties and the cauldrons but the were just a pumpkin flavoured and shaped Twinkie and the other was a chocolate flavoured one. My how time changes things lol. Merry Christmas ⛄
I like candy canes. My mom buys different kinds, puts them on the Christmas tree, and we can grab them whenever we want. We usually get 10+ boxes of them, 4 of them normal peppermint.
”Do ppl like candy canes, in general?” Most of Sweden is yelling YES at you Ben :P But here it’s just not candy canes, we have something called Polkagris and it’s really great. I’The original flavour is peppermint but you can get it in so many different flavous. The capital of Polkagris is Gränna, but there is a store that makes them in Stockholm, in Old Town and before you know what, you could actually book a time to make your own, like an experience. Funnily enough near this store is SciFi-bokhandeln (bookstore) that has 2 floors of nerdiness, incl Harry Potter merch. And they have a cheaper chocolate frog which seems to be a better experience. The packaging is not as great, but you get a card in shape of trading cards and hollow chocolate. Which I try to not eat and always fail... Both places are a must for me to visit every time I go to Stockholm, which was June 2019 last time... I so miss those stores.
You'd think after years of videos titled J vs Ben, promo codes called JvsB, mentions of the full name Jonathan, and several discussions of how it's J not Jay, it wouldn't be the sweater conversation that clues people in.
The ton tongue toffee looks like cinder toffee from the UK, which is sort of like honeycomb-textured. You can also buy non-branded wine gums practically everywhere over here. Have had some chocolate cauldron, and I agree, the chocolate is not good. Love the blood pops, though. We also used to have slightly different HP-branded acid pops (green lollipops with very hard dark pink candy bits set into them, shorter sticks), honeydukes chocolate (sort of like a paler, lighter, miniature mars bar with popping candy on top), a different set of bean flavours and whizbees, which were fizzy bonbons which I suspect involves baking soda to produce the fizz. This set all seems very chocolate-based.
Ah, Universal Gotta love the Wizarding World. Both Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley are so cool. And the Hogwarts Express is an epic way to park hop. You truly feel like you stepped into a Harry Potter movie and you're a part of the cast
The Chocolate Flies probably hit a FDA regulation issue regarding the insect content of various food types... Like they have actual tests and rules for how much insect is in that chocolate to begin with, and putting a whole fly in on purpose (instead of the rest that is in there by accident) will instantly exceed those limits. -Shawn
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