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Jelly Belly Candy Co. Mourns Reagan, Its Biggest Fan
Fox News Online (via AP) ^ | 6/8/04

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.

[SNIP]

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.

[SNIP - click above link for full article]

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: jellybeans; jellybelly; ronaldreagan
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To: ozaukeemom

Im ready to order the 49 flavor assorted bag plus a small jalepeno since they got left out of the batch this go around! L0L!


41 posted on 06/08/2004 5:55:15 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Battle Axe

Gosh...I dont know.

who could resist jelly bellys? LOL


42 posted on 06/08/2004 5:57:03 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Battle Axe

Grady?


43 posted on 06/08/2004 5:59:57 PM PDT by gorush
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To: mylife
Yeah, I'm in the process of finishing the box I had in the kitchen. Time to get some more! Jelly Belly's warehouse facility is in Wisconsin on the way to Chicago, and they give tours too...not to mention free samples.

They may seem expensive to regular jelly beans, but they last a lot longer because you don't go eating a handful of them all at once.
44 posted on 06/08/2004 6:01:57 PM PDT by July 4th (You need to click "Abstimmen")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
And he STILL lived to 93....take that anti-tobacco nazis!

He might not have lived so long if he had continued smoking. If he stopped smoking in 1967, he lived the last 37 years without smoking. My father quit smoking almost 20 years ago, and I really doubt he would be in good health at the age of 71 if he were still smoking.

45 posted on 06/08/2004 6:03:28 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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To: Battle Axe
O'Grady

Great, now I'm hungry for jelly bellies.

46 posted on 06/08/2004 6:06:15 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (You need tons click "co-ordinating")
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To: Libertina; diotima

ping to #25


47 posted on 06/08/2004 6:06:20 PM PDT by Clint Williams (It's the liberal press. To it all truth is relative. Therefore it is in its very nature to lie.)
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To: July 4th
they last a lot longer because you don't go eating a handful of them all at once.

Yeah, a 2 lb sack could last me quit a while ;^p

48 posted on 06/08/2004 6:06:45 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: ServesURight

Geez....I was smiling through this thread until this picture. tissue break


49 posted on 06/08/2004 6:11:31 PM PDT by Arpege92 (Republicans believe everyday is the 4th of July, Democrats believe everyday is April 15th - Gipper)
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To: Clint Williams

What a great idea! I must say I like Jelly Belly's too much and my Jelly Belly belly shows it.


50 posted on 06/08/2004 6:13:49 PM PDT by diotima (Telegram Sam, you're my main man)
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To: snooker
Count yourself lucky you can get them at Cosco.

Sam's Club switched to their own Member's Mark brand of Jelly Belly's. Barf. I don't buy anything but the original.

sw

51 posted on 06/08/2004 6:20:50 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: spectre
We tried the rest, Belly Belly's are the best. Even if I have to buy them from a leftie chain. All COSCO carries is the 20 flavor mix, you can't get the individual flavors.

I think you can mail order them direct. Or get them at a net candy store. You just can't beat the original.
52 posted on 06/08/2004 6:28:21 PM PDT by snooker (Reagan has put the smile back on America's face ... again. Can't you feel it?)
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To: wimpycat

No kidding. Jelly beans are sugar with a skin. Jelly Bellies are WONDERFUL. I am having a much harder time finding them since I moved to GA from CA.


53 posted on 06/08/2004 6:30:42 PM PDT by Politicalmom ( Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but they're not entitled to their own facts -D. Rumsfeld)
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To: diotima; Libertina
Hear ye! Hear ye!

From this day forth, every February 6, Pres. Reagan's Birthday, will be celebrated by placing bowls of jelly beans in high traffic areas, in lobbies, at GOP events, and on coffee tables across America.

Just a thought for the FR future... lest we forget. (Echoing Kipling's "Recessional.") But is that enough...?

Scots and their descendants around the world celebrate Robert Burns' birthday every January 25th in "Burns' Night Dinners," with certain traditions observed.

Perhaps we conservatives need an annual celebration of one of our greatest too: "Reagan Night Dinners" on February 6th. (We at least can skip the haggis.) At the very least there is plenty of superb material for recitation in his speeches. And what more splendid way to pass on his (and our) vision to future generations, lest they forget?

54 posted on 06/08/2004 6:34:39 PM PDT by Clint Williams (It's the liberal press. To it all truth is relative. Therefore it is in its very nature to lie.)
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To: Battle Axe

Scott O'Grady.


55 posted on 06/08/2004 6:37:23 PM PDT by madison10
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To: madison10

Whoops. Sorry. Missed the answer post until too late.


56 posted on 06/08/2004 6:38:52 PM PDT by madison10
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To: gorush
"......and in spite of my excessive manliness, I teared up."

ROTFL!

57 posted on 06/08/2004 6:41:15 PM PDT by formerDem (I can only appreciate Reagan in retrospect because I was a brainwashed democrat back then. Sigh.)
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To: Wolfstar
Ah yes. The Great Man had good taste as well.

I never cared for jelly beans until I tried Jelly Belly ones. Pear is my favourite flavour.

Regards, Ivan

58 posted on 06/08/2004 6:43:09 PM PDT by MadIvan (Ronald Reagan - proof positive that one man can indeed change the world.)
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To: Wolfstar
Thanks for posting this!

I like to give jellybellys (and sometimes those gumball dispensers made especially for them), but I rarely buy them for myself. Tomorrow I'm going to the local gift shop that has bins of jellybellys to choose from and buy and eat some in his honor.

59 posted on 06/08/2004 6:44:40 PM PDT by formerDem (I can only appreciate Reagan in retrospect because I was a brainwashed democrat back then. Sigh.)
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To: Wolfstar

My wife takes the kids (and their friends) to the Fairfield factory once every couple of years. They come home with tons of the "misfits" at bargain prices. Root beer is my favorite.


60 posted on 06/08/2004 6:48:52 PM PDT by RGSpincich
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