A small, bean-shaped candy with a soft jelly center covered by a firm sugar coating, often in fruit flavors.
Compound of 'jelly' + 'bean,' first mass-produced in America in the 1860s. The name describes both the texture and oval shape.
Ronald Reagan kept a jar of jellybeans on his Oval Office desk during his presidency—it became so iconic that the jar sold for $5,000 at auction, proving even candy can become historical artifacts.
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