--- description: The jelly bean company, which announced plans to move operations to Tennessee, counted among its biggest fans the 40th U.S. president. title: Here's How Many Jelly Bellys Ronald Reagan Ate Each Month image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [History](/section/history/) ## History Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's How Many Jelly Bellys Ronald Reagan Ate Each Month  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Mar 11, 2015 3:48 PM CUT  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Mar 11, 2015 3:48 PM CUT  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/ "undefined") 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 "undefined") ```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"}}]}] ```