1.   When first grown, the top of the fungus is coated in a black sticky jelly containing spores.

2.   All the black jelly beans at Texaco seemed to be glued to the bottom of the bag.

3.   All the black jelly beans seem to be glued to the bottom of the bag.

4.   On the surface, the NFL is far more sophisticated than the Texaco executives who joked about black jelly beans.

5.   On Halloween, I was the kid avidly collecting the black jelly beans as fast as my friends could discard them.

6.   Texaco might have been the ones caught referring to African-Americans as black jelly beans.

7.   The evidence continues to show that significant numbers of white people, from cradle to grave, have a profound distaste for black jelly beans.

8.   You know how black jelly beans agree.