Yep:
Posted on 06/08/2004 4:56:39 PM PDT by Wolfstar
FAIRFIELD, Calif. — Black ribbons are affixed to the large jelly-bean mosaic portraits of Ronald Reagan at the Jelly Belly Candy Co.
The family-owned company that makes the tiny, intense-flavored candies owes a lot to the former president.
Reagan's love for the candy "made us a worldwide company overnight," said chairman Herman Rowland.
It all began in 1967, when the San Francisco Bay-area company started supplying Reagan, then serving his first term as California's governor, with miniature jelly beans to help him quit smoking.
"It's gotten to the point where we can hardly start a meeting or make a decision without passing around the jar of jelly beans," Reagan wrote to Rowland in 1973.
Reagan carried the tradition to the White House, where the company's jelly beans became a must-have at Cabinet meetings.
The president, whose favorite flavor was licorice, ordered 7,000 pounds of Jelly Bellys for his 1981 inauguration, and Rowland traveled to Washington to help design a special jelly bean jar bearing the presidential seal.
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Mourners have been leaving jelly beans in Reagan's memory at his presidential library and other spots.
About 500,000 visitors a year tour the factory in Fairfield, posing for pictures in front of the Reagan portraits that have had a place of honor at Jelly Belly for years.
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Since it seems unlikely that a ten-hour roundtrip drive to the Reagan Library on Friday makes a whole lot of sense, as a memorial, I'll tour the Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield, CA, which is only 25 minutes away from where I live! Perfect way to show my respects to Pres. Reagan.
Great cartoon. Thanks for posting it, ServesURight.
Chalk up yet another point in the Reagan Revolution!
Jelly beans to die for!!
Terrific! I'm so glad I pinged you to this, then. Let me know how it turns out. See, now I'll think of you on Friday touring the Jelly Belly factory, and I'll smile.
Hey, that's a great plan.
Yep:
I think the one on this thread is the most famous. At least it's the one I most remember from news reports.
Excellent!!!
It's on my 'puter calendar right now!
Great idea! And, be sure to have a portrait of the President right behind the jar!
Mmmmmm Jelly Belly
Great Toon!!! Using a simalar cartoon, I wonder what clinton's would be like when he finaly goes to his reward.
Yum...
Whatever Clinton's cartoon would be, it wouldn't be fit for polite company, LOL!
I was diagnosed as pre-emphazyma in late 70's. Quit smoking about 10 years later. After experiencing several episodes of bronchitus, I went through a complete series of tests of my pulmonary system. It turned out my lung capacity was able to expel 110% of the air intake. That's exceptional, especially for a former smoker.
I was going to ping you but you are already here!
Okay, where is the marketing genius who will create a Jelly Belly line called The Gipper Mix?
BTTT
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