Day 3 Jelly Belly Factory

Today was fun. Dan and I were initially planning an all day trip to San Francisco and China Town, but we spent the morning recovering from the party last night and weren't really active until noonish. We walked into downtown Davis for lunch at Burgers and Brew, where I had a sausage sandwich that was solid. On the way back we stopped at a local TCBY type place.

Since San Fran was out of the question for today, we decided instead to check if the Jelly Belly factory was open the day after Thanksgiving. Tours were running, but the candy making equipment would not be running since the technicians had the day off.

The tour was pretty neat, and fairly interesting. It would have been cool to see the machines in action, but overall it was still worth it. I did learn that root beer and cream soda were 2 of the first 8 Jelly Belly flavors, and that Ronald Reagan was a huge fan of jelly beans, especially Jelly Bean. Smart marketing to play on that, as the whole factory was full of jelly bean portraits of Reagan, and a case of memorabilia. I took quite a few pictures of all the jelly bean art, and I'll post them as soon as I get back to Houston.

There wasn't any advertising history, just how jelly beans were made, so in that respect I preferred the Guiness factory tour, but this was still something fun and I'm glad we made it instead of wasting a day.

For dinner tonight we supported a local pizza place/bakery and ordered a pepperoni/goat cheese pizza which was really tasty.