
Everybody who loves retro sweets loves jelly beans. It may even be widely believed that these sweeties have only been around since the so-called glory days of candy back in the 70's. Actually, jelly beans have been around for almost a hundred years. Still, nobody is exempt from being charmed by this palatable mixture of sugar, gelatin,c orn syrup and food starch. Over the years, we may say that jelly beans have only become more and more beloved to candy lovers all over the world. In fact, they're making a very sweet comeback along with other traditional sweets.
What most people love about these sweet beanies is their tough-on-the-outside, chewy-on-the-inside nature. In fact, this was exactly what we and every kid of the seventies was crazy about. Ah, if only we could go right back to those times! The only thing we didn't like about jelly beans was that we couldn't have them made at home unlike our caramels and choco fudges which mom always had a recipe for. With jelly beans, it took a special cooking technique. But even if we never had jelly beans made at home as we would have loved, we always found our way to that local candy store where we satisfy every little sweet tooth we had that craved for those retro sweets.
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These traditional sweets have just become so much more than candy to us. In fact, jelly beans may well tell a story of our childhood. And they would be such great things to share bonding moments with our own children. Now that these sweets are making a comeback, there should be no better time than now to introduce the kids to exactly the brand of sweet childhood we had back then.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Never Bean Sweeter Jelly Beans!
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Just Jelly Beans

If you love your sweets with the extra excitement of rainbow colors and chewy goodness, you'll adore Jelly Beans. You 've probably adored it as one of those retro sweets which now easily let you slip into nostalgia just by looking at them. Jelly beans are a type of candy that comes in a great variety of mostly fruity flavors. As their name suggests, they're the size of a red kidney bean, some even smaller, but the smile they put on anyone's face is big.
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If the gummy interior of the beans intrigues you, it actually has something to do with a candy back then which they called Turkish delight. It was exactly the same type as the beans with its hard shell that got chewier and chewier as one got nearer into the core. This candy appeared in the late 17th century but it wasn't until the American Civil War when the modern jelly beans debuted while being given out to soldiers in the Union Army. By the 1930's, they became the proverbial Easter candies we know today obviously due to their egg shapes.
Jelly beans are easy to chew and love but they may not be that easy to make. Unlike lollipops and toffees for which you can always ask mom for a classic recipe, these beans need just a bit more complicated ingredients such as emulsifying and anti-foaming agents . On top of that, they have to be subjected to a certain temperatures and conditions to create the exact toughness on the outside and chewiness on the inside. Ingredients will, of course, vary depending on the flavor.
Although jelly beans sound like such kiddie candies, a former US president was once secretly crazy about them he actually kept a jar of right on his desk. People say their increase in popularity just might have something to do with that. Or then again, it could be the beans themselves which are now sold in a tasteful assortment of eight flavors from cherry to licorice to cotton candy and more. If you would have some Glass Gift Jar - Gourmet Jelly Beans, Dinky Glass Jar - Strawberry Gourmet Jelly Beans, Wild Cherry Gourmet Jelly Beans, Dinky Glass Jar - Granny Smith Apple Gourmet Jelly Beans or Dinky Glass Jar - Blueberry Pie Gourmet Jelly Beans, you'll know exactly what this variety means.
Order from a wholesale retro sweets shop and you'll taste all those jelly bean memories you had when you were a kid and couldn't stop chewing them. Wholesale retro sweets are also great for parties and corporate functions. Or just get those beans and love them all over!
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