--- title: Jelly Belly Warehouse Relocation: Ronald Reagan's Love for Jelly Beans description: The jelly bean company, which announced plans to move operations to Tennessee, counted among its biggest fans the 40th U.S. president. canonical: https://time.com/3740459/ronald-reagan-jelly-belly/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-11T15:48:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:54.611Z article:section: History og:title: Here's How Many Jelly Bellys Ronald Reagan Ate Each Month og:description: The jelly bean company, which announced plans to move operations to Tennessee, counted among its biggest fans the 40th U.S. president. og:url: https://time.com/3740459/ronald-reagan-jelly-belly/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's How Many Jelly Bellys Ronald Reagan Ate Each Month twitter:description: The jelly bean company, which announced plans to move operations to Tennessee, counted among its biggest fans the 40th U.S. president. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's How Many Jelly Bellys Ronald Reagan Ate Each Month > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Mar 11, 2015 3:48 PM UTC  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Mar 11, 2015 3:48 PM UTC  Ronald Reagan eating jelly beans during a meeting. NBC/NBCU Photo Bank—Getty Images Residents of Pleasant Prairie, Wisc., were sounding a dirge Wednesday for the Jelly Belly Candy Co. warehouse, which company officials [announced](http://time.com/3740277/jelly-belly-warehouse-wisconsin/) will be sold as operations relocate to Tennessee. By now the news of changes to the company have probably reached the candy’s number one fan somewhere in the great beyond. Ronald Reagan loved jelly beans like pre-vegan Bill Clinton loved jalapeño cheeseburgers and FDR loved acronyms. And the 4oth president’s fondness for the bite-sized sugar capsules rubbed off on the American public. As TIME reported in 1981: “Now, with Ronald Reagan in the White House, they seem fated to achieve the luster that the praline of sugar and nuts enjoyed in the court of France’s Louis XIV.” Reagan was not down with any old generic brand beans, however. As TIME explained: --- > “” --- Goelitz began supplying Reagan when he was governor of California, during which time he and his visitors plowed through two dozen 1-lb bags monthly, amounting to approximately 10,200 beans. As president, Reagan placed a standing order of 720 bags per month (306,070 beans), to be distributed among the White House, Capitol Hill and other federal buildings. It’s probably time for the Jelly Belly Candy Co. to start lobbying presidential hopefuls to get their product back in the Oval Office. **_Read the full article, here in the TIME Vault_** **:** [Living: Hill of Beans](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,949109,00.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3740459/ronald-reagan-jelly-belly/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3740459/ronald-reagan-jelly-belly/"},"headline":"Here's How Many Jelly Bellys Ronald Reagan Ate Each Month","datePublished":"2015-03-11T15:48:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:54.611Z","description":"With news of the company's warehouse relocating, a look back at of one of the candy's biggest fans","url":"https://time.com/3740459/ronald-reagan-jelly-belly/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food","Presidents","Ronald Reagan","Candy"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3740459/ronald-reagan-jelly-belly/","name":"Here's How Many Jelly Bellys Ronald Reagan Ate Each Month"}}]}] ```