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FRUITY FACTS ABOUT MIKE AND IKE®
- The MIKE AND IKE® Original Fruits brand was introduced in 1940.
- Theories about the origin of the MIKE AND IKE® brand name include a company-wide contest, a vaudeville song titled “MIKE AND IKE” and the “IKE” Eisenhower era.
- Sister products also introduced in the 1940’s were Root-T-Toot® , Cool Kids®, Jack and Jill, Jolly Joes®, Strawbanna®, Lem and Mel®, and Cherri and Bubb®. In the 1990's the company incorporated all of these products into the MIKE AND IKE® brand.
- Just Born produces enough pieces of MIKE AND IKE® brand candies each year that if you lined up each piece end-to-end, they would reach around the earth 2.5 times!
- It takes three to four days to create a box of MIKE AND IKE® brand candies.
- Currently, there are four different MIKE AND IKE® brand flavor mixes: Original Fruits, Berry Blast, Jolly Joes® chewy grape flavored candies, and Tropical Typhoon.
- Each chewy candy has only 8 calories and 0 grams of fat.
- MIKE AND IKE® candies are made completely in the USA by Just Born, Inc., headquartered in Bethlehem, PA.
- MIKE AND IKE® brand candies are Kosher.
- MIKE AND IKE® candies are feeling star-studded, appearing in the 2002 film “Simone” with Al Pacino and in an episode of “Everybody Loves Raymond” in 2003. They even have learned of some celebrity fans such as Jimmy Fallon, Will Smith, and Steven Spielberg.
- MIKE AND IKE® brand candy maker Just Born sells its candies in over 50 countries.
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