"They send us a lot of Jelly Babies and chocolates and things like that, just because somebody wrote in one of the papers about presents and things that we'd had given to us, and John said he got some Jelly Babies and I ate them."
"Ever since that we've been inundated. We get about two tons a night. But the main trouble is they tend to throw them at us when we're on stage, and once I got one in my eye, which wasn't very nice."
George Harrison became a vegetarian in the mid-1960s but had a fondness for Jelly Babies as a child. The candy gained popularity in the UK after being produced by Bassett's in 1953. During Beatlemania, Harrison humorously mentioned Jelly Babies as his favorite candy, leading to fans pelting the band with them during performances. Harrison noted that they received about two tons of Jelly Babies each night, which sometimes resulted in injuries, such as getting hit in the eye.
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