Jelly Beans Galore!

OK, so ya'll might be wondering why I titled this post "Jelly Beans,"  well let me tell 'ya! Today, September 21st, on our way to our campground we stopped by the Jelly Belly Factory in Fairfield CA.  This place was so cool, outside the gift shop and tour area is a VW Bug, with the paint job of jelly beans on the outside!! You are walking into the area and you smell the sweet air!! When you walk into the gift shop, the whole place is decorated with jelly beans, and other candies, also the place smells of chocolate!! We shopped in the gift shop for about 20 minutes before the tour started.

We got to go on a tour of the Jelly Belly Factory, and it was really interesting! We got to see how those yummy little beans are made thorough a series of videos.  Here are some interesting facts that we heard about on the tour:

It takes 7 to 21 days to make a single Jelly Belly jelly bean.


The original eight flavors of Jelly Belly beans introduced in 1976 were Very Cherry, Root Beer, Cream Soda, Tangerine, Green Apple, Lemon, Licorice and Grape.


During the presidency of Ronald Reagan, Jelly Belly beans were served in the Oval Office and on Air Force One. A holder was designed for the plane so the jar of Jelly Belly beans would not spill during turbulence.


Here are some pictures we took, sorry they wouldn't let us get any pictures during the factory tour!!

The Jelly Belly bug!

Standing in front of the Candy Corn wall

In the yard laying on the logo!

The Jelly Belly Factory!