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Submitted by Katrina Z
Wasn’t sure whether the submitter meant the toys or the actual beans, but I thought it would be best to represent both here.
I had no idea that the cause of the jumping was small larva trying to get away from heat. Gross!
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to fail!!
Mexican Jumping Poupon your face
If you look them up on wikipedia you will see that the plastic toy version does not have a living thing in it but instead uses a metal ball and some kind of mechanism. The things they are named after do have a living thing in them but they look completely different.
how about those little wooden cases that when you opened it had a lady bug with crazy legs
I must be old, I didn’t know there was a plastic toy version. Why do they look like giant pills? What a thing to give to kids as a toy LOL.
First time I heard of Mexican Jumping Beans, they told us why they jumped (4th grade).
You werent missing much, the toy sucked in my opinion. My grandmother got me some of those for a birthday and it was disappointing. They roll funny down an incline thats it and mine were like actual pills, a child’s sweaty hand would make them start to get sticky and break down. The drugstore had some of the real ones once there still wasnt much to do with them but they were so much cooler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ45se_3TKA&feature=related
this is the better video
My science teacher in elementary school would sell real Mexican jumping beans whenever we had a bug unit. They where a nickle each and came in a plastic case. I kept taking them out of the plastic box and losing them, so i would go back every day for new ones.
They where really cool because as long as you held your hand still, the beans would jump around. Of course you could shake the plastic box they where in too, but that wasn’t nearly as fun.
awesome!
So does that mean that Mexican jumping beans like the ones @ the top have caterpillars in them?!
Oh my. I remember my dad brought me back real mexican jumping beans, and I remember screaming in horror when little worms started crawling out of them onto my hand. ): Fail.
This really brings into question those stories in elementary school from the kid who claimed to have eaten Mexican Jumping Beans when he went to Mexico lol. I think he said he could feel them jumping around in his stomach the little freak.