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Today MAF went to Fairfield, CA to pick up another big order of Candy Diplomacy Jelly Beans!

These Jelly Beans are for our next big shipment of care packages, which are going to start going out very shortly so we can get them to the troops by Thanksgiving!

The idea for Candy Diplomacy came about when we shipped the troops little .35 ounce packets of Jelly Belly jelly beans in care packages last year.

The feedback we got from the troops was that not only were the jelly beans hugely popular among the troops, but they were the perfect size and item to hand out to the Iraqi children that some of the troops would visit with on patrol. 

So when we contacted the Jelly Belly company and told them about our idea to have a special message in Arabic printed on the bags, they thought it would be a great project and help make relations between Americans and Iraqis even friendlier

The first run of these specially bagged Jelly Beans was 100,000 bags and we blew through those in a few months because of the success of the “From the Front Lines” telethon which sold so many care packages. So Jelly Belly made us another shipment

Arriving at the factory

They made us put on hairnets and BEARD NETS!

LOTS of candy!

All packed up and ready to take the Jelly Bellys back to Sacramento

Ryan moves pallets around with this nifty electric pallet jack

Jelly beans stored and waiting for packing!