via Kirk O’Neil at The Street
…beloved candy company Jelly Belly will close its corporate-commercial operations at its headquarters and factory, also in Fairfield, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification notice posted on the Facebook page of the city’s mayor, Catherine Moy, on Feb. 20.
I was terrified to see that one of my childhood favorites, Jelly Belly, was shutting down. But a closer look revealed they have no plans to close the factory, just a reshuffle after an acquisition. Whew.
Growing up, my parents often took the family to a community park with a fishing pond. We’d ride bikes, drown some worms, and walk over to a candy store that, in my nine-year-old mind, carried hundreds of flavors of Jelly Belly jelly beans.
I don’t buy Jelly Belly candy often, but every time I eat a popcorn or watermelon flavored jelly bean (my favorites), I’m taken right back to great childhood memories, that little park, and the candy store just close enough to walk to.