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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Exactly right, Wolfstar...
Stark contrast: Jelly Belly vs SAG.
What's so funny? :{)
You sounded just like a very funny friend of mine. For example, if he was telling a story about a softball game in which he played, he would say, "I was the star...". And once, when he was 'helping' me install a lock on a sliding glass door (and he ended up shattering it), he said, "It's not my door."
Eh, I've had a coupla martinis, so maybe my humour threshold is lower.
What an excellent idea! I'd love to gather my friends and family, who also loved this man, every Feb.6th and have a convivial evening of watching his speeches (surely there will be boxed DVDs of them) and remembering him. Knowing how much his friends meant to him, he would be very pleased, and we could pass his legacy to our children in this way. Brilliant!
The Army still would not accept him. "F"ing bureaucrats.
I can't believe nobody posted the link to the Jelly Belly website. They have a tribute to Reagan there.
http://jellybelly.com/Cultures/en-US/default.htm?MSCSProfile=DCCDF22EB27065BE74277CB8CCB73BC4EDF208BEC430DE4106E7892B3DDABADFC9BA52AC9D12BEF7E3477D1BE551C3D9315385B1016ED7F602A5C25555717533226F24CB36143C938425752D30D1895AFA5E3C1131EA1F576105ED91CE048DD1FF830911835C1042AE29CCF8040A254BEB1C1DDAAA8E7033E62347AC41F9F353&UserPref=culture%5Een-US%7CCurrencyCode%5EUSDen-US
Hmmm? That really sounds strange .. but maybe your son should just find another recruiting office, or maybe another branch of the service.
Today the local 99 cent store had at the top of its page-size newspaper ad a big announcement of Jelly Belly's for 99 cents in honor of President Reagan. Glad to see the company itself honors him.
And he STILL lived to 93....take that anti-tobacco nazis!
Ya but, smoking made him conservative!
>:P
And he STILL lived to 93....take that anti-tobacco nazis!
Ya but, smoking made him conservative!
>:P
You can get Jelly Belly misfits in the flavor of your choosing on Ebay.
I was at a friends home and his wife had given him that big sampler of Jelly Belly's that has little dividers containing all the flavors they make.
After picking at the box for a while, we got to wondering what it would taste like of you took one of every single flavor and stuffed them in your mouth.
I'm here to tell you that it tastes exactly like a can full of garbage, sitting in a back alley on a hot summer's day, smells.
What a great idea, and I love those jelly bean art tributes!
HUH?
My opinions have nothing to do with Reagan's policies, or Alzheimer's, or Bush's eulogy. I am offering my opinions on my observations based on what relationship they have to TRUTH (which transcends politics).
Cheers,
Deborah
HUH? My opinions have nothing to do with Reagan's policies, or Alzheimer's, or Bush's eulogy. I am offering my opinions on my observations based on what relationship they have to TRUTH (which transcends politics).
Cheers, Deborah
Thanks for the explanation about the response. I was wondering! (Basically, I was wondering when I became an RN!)
Yes! As you so aptly said on the SAG thread: The difference is heart :-)
What a great thread. As refreshing as Reagan himself!
It's a little lonely here in California now that our favorite son has gone back to Washington.
You are most welcome. I think eating some in RWR's honor is perfect.
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