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Love Life
14 February 2011

Love Life

Valentine's day is for lovers and that's all of us. So if you can't be with the one you love, love everyone and and everything you're with and let Jelly Belly show the way!  And here's a Happy Valentine's Day recipe especially for you - 2 Very Cherry + 1 Candy Floss + 2 Coconut = Love's Treat

In the words of Don Maclean, today was
10 February 2011

In the words of Don Maclean, today was

the day that music died. Well maybe not, but it was certainly a major setback. We salute Buddy Holly who was killed today in 1956 at the age of just 22.    Our recipe today is 2 Very Cherry + 1 Green Apple + 1 Red Apple + 1 Toasted Marshmallow.    We could hardly call it anything other than AMERICAN PIE.

Sweets for my Sweet?
10 February 2011

Sweets for my Sweet?

We've  had an order for a loving Valentine present from a doting boyfriend.     The message reads

Roses are red
Violets are blue
The sweets are for me.
.....the basket's for you!!

Two Lips of Love
8 February 2011

Two Lips of Love

• Let's run away together - Island Punch
• You're the apple of my eye - Green Apple or Red Apple
• I've got a crush on you - Crushed Pineapple

Just a few more ways in which you can liven up Valentine's Day with Jelly Belly!

Cupcake Love
7 February 2011

Cupcake Love

Here's a stunning way to decorate the humble cupcake this weekend as you go about your loving ways for Valentine's Day.   See how in BEAN WORLD.   Click on the cupcake.

Presidential Beans
6 February 2011

Presidential Beans

Today would have been Ronald Reagan's 100 birthday. It seems like only yesterday when in 1980, he won the US presidency and danced the night away in the White House while throughout Washington three and half tons of red, white and blue Jelly Belly jelly beans were consumed at inauguration parties citywide. Jelly Belly was Reagan's favourite candy - his wife Nancy introduced them to him when she was trying to help him quit his pipe-smoking habit. Liquorice was his favourite flavour and it went on from there. Soon Jelly Belly was in Air Force One and the Oval Office. Within two weeks from the day Reagan declared for Jelly Belly the factory in California was 2 years behind in orders! The rest is history. Being the Centenary of his birth, 2011 is a very big deal for the many people who respect and admire Ronald Reagan.   Watch this space for more news on how it will be celebrated, for more Reagan snippets, click on this wonderful iece of Jelly Belly art.

SOME CAKE!
5 February 2011

SOME CAKE!

What does it take to create a six foot high cake suitably decorated to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 40th President of the United States? Well --- American Chef David Laufer and nine other cooks worked more than 160 hours  on the Ronald Reagan centenaryl cake, which includes 25 sheets of edible rice paper, 90 pounds of chocolate, 100 pounds of flour, 200 pounds each of butter and fondant, 400 eggs and a staggering 20,000 Jelly Belly jelly beans!   That's some cake!  Some celebration too - which starts today and will go into the wee small hours of tomorrow, February 6th which is THE day.

RUN RABBIT RUN
3 February 2011

RUN RABBIT RUN

The Year of the Golden Rabbit begins today in Chinese Astrology.  You're a Golden Rabbit if you were born in 1999, 1987, 1975, 1963, 1951 or in the case of Albert Einstein  (Jelly Belly snapshot) 1879.  Like Einstein you are a private person, perhaps a bit introverted but make a good teacher, counsellor and communicator.  If genes are on your side you're also something of a mathematical genius. You're tidy too. The Rabbit is the symbol of luck and of the Moon  ( and bet you though it was the Crab didn't you?).  Apparently,  if you wish into the Full Moon this year and visualise your body being filled with Moon Dust you will grow in wisdom and courage. Can't be bad. Other rabbits include Brad Pitt, Michael Jordan, Sting, Lily Tomlin and Vanessa Williams.    Let's make TOP BANANA the Jelly Belly flavour that honours the Golden Rabbit (in the absence of carrot flavour).   Have a great Chinese New Year!

PORTABLE POWER IN EVERY WAY!
1 February 2011

PORTABLE POWER IN EVERY WAY!

Love sport - any sport ? Be in with a chance of receiving a £1000 cash prize and a year's supply of Jelly Belly Sport Beans,  our unique brand of Portable Power®. All you have to do to enter is click on the image, follow the link and enter the Sport Beans UK 2011 quarterly survey. Tell us how sport impacts your life and those around you. What really makes you passionate about your sport? What drives you and does it drive your family, friends and work colleagues mad? We want to know!  Lots of luck!

VANILLA ICE DANCING
25 January 2011

VANILLA ICE DANCING

We are remaining partial (truly!) about DANCING ON ICE 2011 because all the participatants are being powered by Jelly Belly Sport Beans as they perform to what is an astonishingly high standard.  Astonishing and miraculous.       However, because he is so gorgeous and there is a Jelly Belly jelly bean flavour that sounds remarkably like him, we do send very special wishes to VANILLA ICE.