Whosday: "Would You Like a Jelly Baby?"

The famous greeting of the Fourth Doctor has a long history of curious origins.  It is best to start with the origin of Jelly Babies themselves.

Jelly Babies were actually not meant to resemble babies, but rather, were meant to be bears, but didn't grow correctly in their molds.

Jelly Babies were initially called Unclaimed Babies when they were first introduced.  This is because during the Victorian era, there were many Unclaimed infants left on church steps, to the point in which unfortunately, nobody thought anything of it, and if anything, found it amusing.

• However, WWI guaranteed a nicer name for them: Victory Babies, before they went back to the name Jelly Babies,