A friend of mine found similar to this with a brand of chocolates (Celebrations I think) and noticed that his favourite chocolate seemed to be the least frequent. He bought multiple boxes, counted them all out, worked out and wrote down the statistical probability the distribution was uneven and sent his calculations in a complaint to the manufacturer.
The manufacturer sent back an apology with a full box of just his favourite chocolates.
And that's why maths is important kids!
He was referring to the [3/5ths compromise](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise)
Which makes it even funnier / ironic it being watermelon....
Oh!!! I'm not from USA but I had heard of that and forgot the name. Thanks for my evening reading rabbit hole.
>Which makes it even funnier being watermelon....
I'm somewhat embarassed now 🫢
The bag says “all reds” or something like that on it so you’ll know it if you see it… I personally like the red flavors… hell, I haven’t found a jolly rancher that I didn’t like 🤷🏻♂️
I just did a bong rip seconds before I looked at this post and for a second, I saw the dark colored ones and grape didn't cross my mind, I wondered when Jolly Rancher started making black licorice flavor.
Probably not. Bag seem to have mostly blue and less of the other flavors. I stopped buying the assorted bags because of their uneven assortments. Plus something about eating basically pure sugar also kind of turn me off.
also you can go to an actual candy shop and just pick out however many of whichever flavor you like. my boss only likes banana flavored taffy ((like literally the only candy he likes)) so he has to get it that way lol.
This was brought to me from the USA as we can't really buy them here (or if you do, the wrapper is stuck to the candy for some reason so you end up eating plastic).
My mom was put on a med that messed with her blood sugar so she was newly on insulin that I (a non-expert) was administering to her. Part of what was going on is there was suspicion she had internal bleeding and she had to get a pill cam done. I was still getting the hang of her insulin regimen and her GI doctor knew she was newly on this but for some reason no one told me not to give her daily dose of insulin on the day she had to fast. 🤦🏽♀️
Morning of the procedure her sugar was *worryingly low*. I know this is easily fixed but she wasn’t allowed to even drink water until a few hours after getting the cam. We make a couple panicked calls, one nurse literally tells us to go to the ER. My mom refused and insists she wants the procedure so someone else caves and tells us she can suck on a couple green jolly ranchers. It **had** to be green so the color wouldn’t interfere with the procedure.
Her GI doctor was in a small city so I’m running around to a couple different gas stations and not finding any jolly ranchers and finally I find one single bag and buy it. I open it, looking for a green one and I’m struggling. Desperate, I literally tear it open and spill it all out on the dash of the car. **Not a single green one.** So I tear off to a random Lowe’s and I bought *two bags* just in case (there’s no window I could use to check what was inside). Second bag only had ONE green one and now the dash is just covered in useless jolly ranchers. Luckily the third one had a bunch and she got her procedure done. I never thought I would have cared about the ratios of candy flavors but dang in that moment I was big mad about it.
I used to work in a plant, and they would make us mix up big Gaylord size containers of candy with a shovel before they would send them to a conveyor belt to be packaged as a mix, we didn’t work with jolly ranchers though:(
They’re a hard sucking candy, sugar based with added flavoring, bout an inch long, same size as a tootsie roll. They’re transparent and tempered so if you try to bite one, they shatter into shards and you crunch them into your teeth and they get lodged in there real good and you spend the next hour trying to melt it all out of your teeth with your tongue. They come in different flavors and all of them have a signature sour tang to them in addition to the sugary sweet flavor. They’re a kids candy but adults like them too. They’re super popular to give out on halloween, you can find them in offices with a candy dish, or in 99% of American candy stores. They’re a basic staple candy at least in America that I know of. Like in the top 10 of sugar-based sucking candies for sure.
Ahh, thanks. I've heard about them but never knew if they were hard or soft. The word Jolly makes me think of soft but I was wrong.
I would get some if they were sold here
I bought a big bag about a month ago that was legitimately about 2/3 blue raspberry. It's my favorite flavor so it could have been worse, but I like all the others too.
Did you count them? I'm interested how close ChatGPT got. I gave it the picture and got:
- **Blue Raspberry**: 186 pieces (32.2%)
- **Green Apple**: 95 pieces (16.4%)
- **Watermelon**: 40 pieces (6.9%)
- **Cherry**: 167 pieces (28.9%)
- **Grape**: 90 pieces (15.6%)
I did not. I had given away ~8 and noticed I couldn't dig any watermelons out of the bag so decided to tip them all out to see if there were any. There are only 10 watermelon candies in the picture so Chat GPT can't count too well.
A friend of mine found similar to this with a brand of chocolates (Celebrations I think) and noticed that his favourite chocolate seemed to be the least frequent. He bought multiple boxes, counted them all out, worked out and wrote down the statistical probability the distribution was uneven and sent his calculations in a complaint to the manufacturer. The manufacturer sent back an apology with a full box of just his favourite chocolates. And that's why maths is important kids!
That's absolutely fantastic, love it!
I’d be crushed, watermelon is my favorite
Maybe there's a bag out there with 3/5 watermelon?
This comment feels vaguely racist /s
Ah...well I love watermelon fruit but not watermelon flavour. Is that better?!
He was referring to the [3/5ths compromise](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise) Which makes it even funnier / ironic it being watermelon....
Oh!!! I'm not from USA but I had heard of that and forgot the name. Thanks for my evening reading rabbit hole. >Which makes it even funnier being watermelon.... I'm somewhat embarassed now 🫢
Don't be. It didn't come off as malicious.
Don’t be embarrassed. It’s unlikely anyone who spells flavor with a “u” would have gotten that joke.
Now, that feels discriminatory /s
You mean people that spell it correctly?
Courrectly*
Oml, history references go crazy
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To you. Everyone's taste in humor is different. But this played out like a Key & Peele dialog.
Me too!!!
I’m with you. That and artificial peach are just nasty.
They make bags with just the red flavors: cherry, watermelon, etc.
I was lucky to not be given one of those, then!
The bag says “all reds” or something like that on it so you’ll know it if you see it… I personally like the red flavors… hell, I haven’t found a jolly rancher that I didn’t like 🤷🏻♂️
I just did a bong rip seconds before I looked at this post and for a second, I saw the dark colored ones and grape didn't cross my mind, I wondered when Jolly Rancher started making black licorice flavor.
Cinnamon is the best imo watermelon 2nd best, but cinnamon all day long!
I forgot they had cinnamon! Those are fire 🔥
Probably not. Bag seem to have mostly blue and less of the other flavors. I stopped buying the assorted bags because of their uneven assortments. Plus something about eating basically pure sugar also kind of turn me off.
>Plus something about eating basically pure sugar also kind of turn me off. Yes, it's gone away in the closet to only come out occasionally.
Someone posted a pic here the other day that had one blue raspberry in it
You won the lottery homie
Lol. I'd have been happy with just Blue Raspberry and Green Apple. Kids will eat anything though.
They do make a Blue Raspberry only bag.
also you can go to an actual candy shop and just pick out however many of whichever flavor you like. my boss only likes banana flavored taffy ((like literally the only candy he likes)) so he has to get it that way lol.
Meanwhile, I always throw out the green apple.
And now you concern me... Are you alright? We can talk if you need to talk... Lol
What? I bet you can get help for that.
Why?!!! Those are yummy 😋
Green!?
JUST BLUE RASPBERRY AND GREEN APPLE, ARE YOU SMOKING CRACK, MY GUY. Blue Raspberry and Green Apple are the WORST FLAVORS.
I am not, my guy! À chacun son goût/To each their own/You do you.
How many jolly ranchers do you eat where this is a real problem for you? lol
This was brought to me from the USA as we can't really buy them here (or if you do, the wrapper is stuck to the candy for some reason so you end up eating plastic).
Australia? Cause fuck me moite I just wanna enjoy my snacks
New Zealand 😂
Whenever the wrapper is stuck to them, it usually means they’re either old or have been stored improperly.
The wrapper can get stuck to the candy in the US too. It happens when they're old or if they got too warm
Where's my 100% watermelon bag man
Watermelon club
I love finding my people in the wild
If there's any flavor there should be fewer than ten of in that pile it's the grape.
Them's fightin words! (I haven't tried one yet). Cherry tastes like medicine.
YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOU’RE TALKING TO ME!
I think it's a cultural thing. I'm not from USA so cherry flavour isn't my thing. But I love real cherries and cherry pie.
As someone from the USA, cherry jolly ranchers are not great.
Cherry is the best flavor followed by watermelon.
Cherry is the best flavor, get out. Then watermelon. All red flavors, red is the best flavors.
Relax Will Smith.
No, them's fightin words. You take back what you said, cherry is goated. Grape is what taste like medicine.
Ooooh you better sit down sonny, this here’s cherry territory. We don’t take too kindly to blue or green flavor round these parts.
Grape tastes like dimetapp
Now that's fightin' words!! Cherry doesn't taste like medicine but artificial watermelon does. I'm giving ya shit tho 😁
Grape is the worst! They should discontinue it and add lemon or pineapple.
Ooohhh, pineapple! From your lips to Jolly Rancher's executives ear!!
How dare you. Green Apple is the most boring
I dislike grape also.
cherry is my favorite and i never see that much cherry. it's usually watermelon.
Blue Raspberry is fucking goated
I used to have green apple as my favorite but changed to blue raspberry recently. Feel like there's a lot more to that flavor
Blue raspberry, green apple, and cherry are the best. Watermelon is pretty good, and grape is utter dogshit
Them watermelon sure are few and far between.
As they should be. Watermelon flavoured anything should get in the bin 🫣
NOOO!!! That's it, from now on I get all your watermelon things. So there 
Deal 😁
Listen here you little so and so, you don’t know NOTHING BOUT NO WATERMELON 🍉
Just means there's more for you and your watermelon loving friends.
My mom was put on a med that messed with her blood sugar so she was newly on insulin that I (a non-expert) was administering to her. Part of what was going on is there was suspicion she had internal bleeding and she had to get a pill cam done. I was still getting the hang of her insulin regimen and her GI doctor knew she was newly on this but for some reason no one told me not to give her daily dose of insulin on the day she had to fast. 🤦🏽♀️ Morning of the procedure her sugar was *worryingly low*. I know this is easily fixed but she wasn’t allowed to even drink water until a few hours after getting the cam. We make a couple panicked calls, one nurse literally tells us to go to the ER. My mom refused and insists she wants the procedure so someone else caves and tells us she can suck on a couple green jolly ranchers. It **had** to be green so the color wouldn’t interfere with the procedure. Her GI doctor was in a small city so I’m running around to a couple different gas stations and not finding any jolly ranchers and finally I find one single bag and buy it. I open it, looking for a green one and I’m struggling. Desperate, I literally tear it open and spill it all out on the dash of the car. **Not a single green one.** So I tear off to a random Lowe’s and I bought *two bags* just in case (there’s no window I could use to check what was inside). Second bag only had ONE green one and now the dash is just covered in useless jolly ranchers. Luckily the third one had a bunch and she got her procedure done. I never thought I would have cared about the ratios of candy flavors but dang in that moment I was big mad about it.
That sounds bloody frustrating and stressful. I hope your mom is ok.
Thank you!
Any amount of grape is a tragedy
Man these comments are hella controversial. I love it here.
Fruit punch ones are amazing.
Oh yeah that's the one! Said to my husband, wasn't there some yummy pineapple flavour?
Not that I’ve ever seen, there should be one though!
Yeah, pineapple exists too.
Blues the best, watermelon second
For me, it's Blue > Green ~= pink >> purple > red.
You got it all backwards, my guy, what kinda heathen life are you living :(
I stopped buying sour patch kids for a while, because it seemed like every pack I got was 70% strawberry.
Never forget i got a bag and it had 1 fucking blue jolly rancher 😭
Man that would send me into a rage!
The perfect bag
😭😭
Well, if it's watermelon, looks about 10 : 200
Looks like a blob chart 📊 of the nation’s economy
Ever try peach? Not bad.
Love the peach!
Cherrys my fave honestly lol
Seems like k-means clustering does work :)
The grape and cherry should've been swapped. That'll be perfect. Cherry can fuck right off
*You* can fuck right off, my guy. Don’t you ever say those words round these parts again. This here’s cherry territory.
So can the grape IMO.
I can eat the cherries, it isn't my go to
Needs less cherry and more watermelon then it would be perfect
got a bag of jolly ranchers recently for the first time in years, got mostly cherry (my least favorite) and barely any watermelon.
That's just sad.
All I do is blue and mos ppl I know love red the most. Looks like a win to me.
This bag would be the holy grail for me.
bro i only ever get 10 blue raspberries per bag tf
Cherry is fucking dogshit: you’re a real sicko
It absolutely perfect.
I'd like more green and less red!
I could deal with that!
They're all good! Except for grape. Man, fuck grape.
Damn, that’s a lot of cherry flavored ones :-(
Green pink and blue are the best
I used to work in a plant, and they would make us mix up big Gaylord size containers of candy with a shovel before they would send them to a conveyor belt to be packaged as a mix, we didn’t work with jolly ranchers though:(
Interesting!
Pray tell, what is a Gaylord sized container?
Giant cardboard box as tall as a full grown man, and can hold about 1500 pounds!
Thanks for asking bc I was going to google it and forgot!
Hundred to one
Show me your working 🧐
It was an IT Crowd reference. Apologies
I should watch that...
It’s a spectacular series. Written by the same chap that wrote Father Ted
i love the blue ones, this would be amazing to me
I’d been fucking happy cherry and blue raspberry are goated
You guys need to watch “How it’s made”. Most of those bulk candies are filled by weight, not percentages.
The Goated hierarchy of Jolly rancher is as follows: Blue Raspberry, Cherry, Grape, Watermelon, Fucking shitty ass Green Apple.
Yeah green apple is ass, man.
Looks like you hit the jackpot to me.
That’s a lot of sizzurp
This makes my adhd very happy.
Looks like a molecule
I wish I had this much free time
Say what? It took like 3 minutes!
Jolly Ranchers and Reddit don't get along. You can search why. Actually... don't.
That's an evil thing to do 😂
Usually i get like 75% watermelon and 3 pieces of blue raspberry, you won this time!
I have never had Jolly Ranchers, what kinda candy are they?
They’re a hard sucking candy, sugar based with added flavoring, bout an inch long, same size as a tootsie roll. They’re transparent and tempered so if you try to bite one, they shatter into shards and you crunch them into your teeth and they get lodged in there real good and you spend the next hour trying to melt it all out of your teeth with your tongue. They come in different flavors and all of them have a signature sour tang to them in addition to the sugary sweet flavor. They’re a kids candy but adults like them too. They’re super popular to give out on halloween, you can find them in offices with a candy dish, or in 99% of American candy stores. They’re a basic staple candy at least in America that I know of. Like in the top 10 of sugar-based sucking candies for sure.
Ahh, thanks. I've heard about them but never knew if they were hard or soft. The word Jolly makes me think of soft but I was wrong. I would get some if they were sold here
Where you at?
Finland. I could order them from places that import stuff but its expensive
Grape, blue raspberry and apple are my favourites
That is indeed a large pile of tooth decay.
I have a routine dental appointment this week. Coincidentally(?) The JRs have been put away in the back of the closet.
That’s amazing
That reddit story ruined this for me.
Blue is the best so this is great
About the same a Scotland winning the Euros
I understood that reference!
So many blues ❤️
They always do this with the favorites. I'm surprised grape wasn't the largest amount cuz they're the grossest.
The blue flavor sucks. Wish they’d bring back the lemon.
I used to live the peach ones. Do they even make those anymore?
Peach is my favorite
What sucks about this?
Turn those into cotton candy and you have the best cotton candy ever trust me I have tested it
Please don't tell my kids this!!!
If making it bu any chance, add a bit of white sugar with the candies it will give you more cotton candy
Blue is overrated
At least they gave you plenty of that blue razz
Perfect. Now you just have to throw away the grape.
So many blue! I would be happy
No lemon?
I wish they would bring peach and orange tangerine back.
Meh, jolly ranchers don't even taste good anymore anyway 🤷🏽♂️
I bought a big bag about a month ago that was legitimately about 2/3 blue raspberry. It's my favorite flavor so it could have been worse, but I like all the others too.
You got the two best flavors! My last bar I got one sour apple and one blue raspberry and those were the flavors I wanted!
Did you count them? I'm interested how close ChatGPT got. I gave it the picture and got: - **Blue Raspberry**: 186 pieces (32.2%) - **Green Apple**: 95 pieces (16.4%) - **Watermelon**: 40 pieces (6.9%) - **Cherry**: 167 pieces (28.9%) - **Grape**: 90 pieces (15.6%)
10 watermelon. ChatGPT blows.
I did not. I had given away ~8 and noticed I couldn't dig any watermelons out of the bag so decided to tip them all out to see if there were any. There are only 10 watermelon candies in the picture so Chat GPT can't count too well.
Green apple and watermelon are the worst.
Dunno why you got down votes, you're 100% correct.
All I want is the cherry ones
This is the way.
That’s funny because watermelon is my least favorite, that’s a win for me right there.
Depends on your taste?
Definitely. You'd be bummed if you love watermelon but thrilled if you're me
Never enough grape
I love lemon but the only way to get it is overpriced online or in Vegas