Jelly bean

According to one common story, they existed as early as 1861, when Boston confectioner William Schrafft urged people to buy them as gifts for soldiers in the American Civil War.

[1] A more definite reference appears in food testing records of the United States Department of Agriculture published in 1887.

[2] Most historians contend that jelly beans were first associated with celebrations of Easter in the United States sometime during the 1930s due to their egg-like shape.

[3] The basic ingredients of jelly beans include sugar, tapioca or corn syrup, and pectin or starch.

a "jellybean" or "jelly-bean" was a young man who dressed stylishly but had little else to recommend him, similar to the older terms dandy and fop.

1920 sheet music cover