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Article: Brach's Has Two Billion Jelly Beans Ready for Consumers This Easter.
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- PR Newswire
- Article date:
- March 29, 2001
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 29 /PRNewswire/ --
This Easter season, Brach's Confections will sell approximately two billion jelly beans. Consider this fact -- if you lined up all of the jelly beans that Brach's will make for Easter 2001, those jelly beans would stretch from New York's Empire State Building to Cape Town, South Africa and back. That's a distance of 17,768 miles!
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010329/ATTHFNS1 )
Did you realize that it takes Brach's a total of 10 days to make each jelly bean? The art of making jelly beans is a long, 11-step process, whereas most candies are made in only a couple of hours.
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