jelly baby

"So when I go very low, I rely on the jelly baby to put me back in the right place."

"When it significantly drops, I have to take a jelly baby," he said.

As we cross the Wellington fault line, Kapiti Island, a predator-free bird sanctuary, sits slumped in the Tasman Sea like a giant jelly baby.

But this act of pseudo-cannibalism isn't the only disturbing chapter in the history of the much-loved jelly baby.

Confectionery historians believe the earliest jelly baby was the work of an Austrian confectioner who worked for Fryers of Lancashire.