We went on an awesome factory tour at Jelly Belly last week. The best part of it was that they were making licorice flavor that day so we all left smelling delicious (or terrible if you ask Tim). Here we are sporting the mandatory tour headgear.
Like any good tour, it had a mosaic of Reagan. I guess Ronald Reagan was a big fan of the beans, so when he became president they got lots of publicity and the company really took off.
The whole place felt like Vegas for kids to me. The waiting areas, store and cafe were filled with these flashing, blinking jelly bean dispensing machines. Matilda quickly learned to check the dispenser spouts for freebie beans.
The wait for a (free!) tour was quite long so we ended up sticking around to eating lunch there since we were all in dire need of sustenance after smelling all that sugary goodness. Here everyone waits for their bean-themed food.
Jelly bean shaped personal pizza and jelly bean shaped burger patties! Only slightly less bizarre than the hideous smiley face fries.
This is the color of Matilda's favorite flavor: mint toothpaste. It is supposed to be a joke flavor in the "Bean Boozled" line of beans but don't tell Matilda that. I tried the diaper wipes flavor and it was gross but not terrible.
Tim fills up his bag with soda shoppe flavors. 7 Up is good, but root beer is better!
The gals were running on pure sugar power by the end and had loads of fun.
2 comments:
Jelly Beans have finally made it to us and my students know what I am talking about when I mention them - before they just stared at me when I told them about the zillions of flavors.. :-) Maybe we could plan some field trip? :-) Frusl
Maybe we should just eat jelly beans while we ice skate on your pond? Followed by an evening of raclette and wine, it seems like the perfect day.
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