This is really interesting stuff. The fun fact at the end was a nice touch! As a PA native, Hershey is a huge tourist attraction to the central part of the state. When I was in elementary school, we did the exact same thing!
Jolly Ranchers were where it was at! Green apple and grape were my top 2 flavors. There was a fire one night in what I believe, was the Jolly Rancher store. From that time on, the store left Golden for Wheatridge. I love your jolly ranchers but the packaging needs to be improved It is very sticky and heard to peel off the wrappers. I wish there was another way to wrap the delicious flavored candy Thanks Disnev. Later, the Harmsens also set up a woodworking shop in their barn, where they made doll beds and cocktail trays.
And then they tried their hand at ice cream. Bill and Dorothy Harmsen serving ice cream at their very first store in Golden, Colorado. They chose the name Jolly Rancher because Rancher gave the store a western aura and Jolly suggested a friendly atmosphere. After the first summer, the couple had more liabilities than assets. Rainy weather and insufficient ice cream manufacturing equipment haunted the enterprise. In order to get through the upcoming winter months, they added a line of bulk and boxed chocolates, which initially came from a small candy firm in Denver.
This proved a perfect combination as business prospered, and soon they even opened a number of franchises in Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. The original Golden store was sold in , but the Harmsens were still supplying chocolates to their franchises. Candy sales exceeded their expectations and soon outgrew supply.
At the same time requests for their five-cent hot cinnamon taffy stick, better known today as Fire Stix the recipe was developed by the Harmsens while in Golden became so numerous they realized a new opportunity. They pulled out old horse stalls in their big barn and within several months set up a full-scale candy manufacturing operation.
A candy maker was hired and they rechristened their home Sugar Bar Ranch. With this company motto, the company prospered: Jolly Rancher is the only candy guaranteed to be positively superior to any other you have ever eaten!
Over the years, the Jolly Rancher plant went through numerous remodels and expansions, until it was a full-fledged plant. At the time of the merger, the plant was operating two shifts with about employees. Production was nearly , pounds of candy per day! Leaf Brands purchased Beatrice Foods in , which was subsequently bought by the Hershey Company in Jolly Rancher was first introduced in the year They are hard, brittle, rigid, translucent, and the brand has many different flavors.
He originally also sold ice cream but realized it was hard to sell during the winter months, so he focused on hard candies that can be sold year-round. Flavors of Jolly Rancher include cherry, blue raspberry, grape, green apple and watermelon. There are also sour, cinnamon, and smoothie varieties. In , lemon was reintroduced in an all-lemon bag. In , a Fruity Bash variety pack was offered and in a Hotties bag was introduced with fruit flavors that added cayenne pepper, sriracha, habanero and ginger.
A number of other Jolly Rancher products have been made, from gummies and fruit chews to jelly beans, lollipops, filled pops and gelatin desserts.
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