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The Jolly Rancher Candy Company was founded in Golden, Colorado, by Bill and Dorothy Harmsen in 1949. They called the company Jolly Rancher
to suggest a hospitable, western company. The company originally made ice cream, chocolate and hard candy.
As hard candy sales grew, however, they began to concentrate on developing their "Famous for Flavor" line of hard candies. Today Jolly
Ranchers are made by the Hershey Company.
Jolly Ranchers memories...
Jolly Ranchers® are a wonderful candy, and bring up many a fond memory
every time I smell that wonderful scent they give off in an overly
warm car. The first story I have relates more to learning violin than
it does to Jolly Ranchers. I was using the Suzuki® Method of learning
an instrument, and was nearly through the first book, when I came upon
a short piece called the Lucky Farmer. My dad loved Jolly Ranchers and
decided that was a better name for the song than what they'd given it.
The second story is shorter. I was losing my baby teeth and, as
everyone knows, was having a painful time of getting them out. I
decided a change was in order. I figured that the painful part was all
the wiggling and pulling it out sideways; if I could find something
sticky to pull it out straight, then it would be a lot easier. The
solution came to me while I was sucking on a Jolly Rancher in the car.
When you bite a Jolly Rancher you've just put in your mouth, it sticks
to your teeth pretty good. With this method I pulled out 7 teeth near
painlessly. ~ Bevan from Minnesota
I have eaten and loved jolly ranchers ever since I
can remember. It was always a treat for my friends and me to go to the
store, mostly during the summer and buy pocketfuls of jolly ranchers
that would only last us that very day. We would go back soon, if not
the next day, and stock up again.
Then, it was off to riding
bikes, sliding on cardboard boxes down the steepest hill we could
find, and off to the baseball games at night to see our secret crush
play. You could also get away with jolly ranchers at school, as long
as you weren't asked a question, or asked to recite. It was not
something that you could swallow unless it happened to be almost all
gone. They were always such a wonderful burst of flavor. I love them.
~ Debbie from Texas
