They really do a great tour, it's free but then they want you to save your money to spend in the store afterwards.
They make everyone where these hats. Not sure why.
It takes 20 days to make a jelly bean. The first process is the inside of the jelly bean. Then after that process cures for 3 days it goes to the second process for the outer coating. Again it cures for 3 days. They then go to polishing and again cures for a couple of days. The final process is to run through a machine that separates out all the jelly beans that are either to small or to large. These are called "jelly flops" and you can buy these in bags at the store for $9.00 a bag..its a bigggg bag! Then they are stamped with the name. We were able to try different flavors at each process. We had the newest flavor..honey, we also had strawberry blonde (tastes like strawberry ice cream) and 7-up.
Everyone knows that Ronald Reagan loved jelly beans. He was truly responsible for the Jelly Belly company becoming so big. As governor and as president, he always had a large jar of jelly beans on his desk. For his presidential inauguration, they had to come up with a blue jelly bean (blueberry) so that there could be red, white and blue jelly beans in the jar! Here is his picture in jelly beans.
It was a good tour and we spent our share in the store to pay for it.
Sounds like the free tour is like free parking at Walmart. They get you on what you buy as Walmart always costs us more thann the RV park down the road.
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