Food Field Trips, Friday 9/20 2nd Period

[stykera]

Another Friday and another trip to Portalocity for the Food Field Trips class.

“Candy today,” Stark said. “Jelly beans, specifically. I know they get eaten more around Easter but they’re good any time.”

There was probably a student enthusiastically agreeing with him right this moment.

“We’ll be going to the Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield, CA. There’s a factory tour and ‘museum experience’ and a train to ride and of course plenty of candy to eat. If everyone’s here, and ready, let’s go, shall we?”

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This Week's Field Trip [9/20]

[stykera]

Welcome to 1 Jelly Belly Lane in Fairfield, CA. You can take a self-guided tour above the factory floor, stopping to enjoy some interactive and educational exhibits along the way.

Maybe you’d like to check out the art gallery with its mosaics made up of jelly beans.

Maybe you want to buy all the jelly beans, even the Belly Flops, in the store. Or maybe some swag. You can also purchase items in the chocolate shoppe.

There’s also a cafe serving both breakfast and lunch. Some items are even bean shaped!
If you’re old enough you can even spend some time enjoying a chocolate and wine tasting experience. If you’re not old enough, or if you don’t have a fake ID, or you just don’t want wine, there is a non-alcoholic experience available.

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[pun_king]

Oh. My. Goodness!!

A jellybean factory?? And museum???

Graham could not wait to tell Triumph all about today's field trip! And to try ALL the jellybeans! And ask a million excitable questions to all the poor staff members just trying to do their job.

Did one of those questions involve asking if being entirely submerged in jellybeans was on the table? Maaaaybeeee....

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[wildgalegirl]

"Graham! Dude! We could totally use your magical cloak to take back like tons of jellybeans!" Charlie might be a little too excited about this prospect.

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[pun_king]

"Oh, believe me," Graham, beaming, laughed as he swung that magical cloak in question in a way that handily depositiled a small pile of jelly beans into his waiting palm to show Charlie, "i am already ten steps ahead of you there!"

He plucked one out of the pile to pop into his mouth, and then handed it out for Charlie to take one,too.

"Isn't this place incredible? I am definitely going to have to come back sometime!"

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[wildgalegirl]

Charlie took a blue one and popped it in her mouth. "Delicious! And just say the word and I can Walk us here whenever we want!"

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[pun_king]

"Oh, no," Graham chuckled, popping another bean into his mouth, "don't tell me that! Then I might just come here all the time!

"I should go see, though," he mused,"what their pet-slash-mighty steeds policy is. Triumph has got to see this place with his own eyes!"

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[wildgalegirl]

"I mean I could always make Triumph invisible..." Charlie mused, "but that wouldn't stop people from bumping into him - or him from bumping into things."

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[pun_king]

"And he will bump into things," Graham asserted with the utmost certainty and fondness. "And get into things. It's probably best to just check in with someone to see if it's okay. Maybe we can even arrange some sort of special capybara tour, just for him! He'd love that, and then we wouldn't have to worry so much about breaking any rules if they were already making an agreed-upon exception to them!"

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[wildgalegirl]

Charlie was a little skeptical about them making a special capybara tour, but she wasn't about to shoot it down. "And if not we can make him his own tour with big pictures and some jellybeans!"

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[pun_king]

Well, you never knew until you asked! And Graham was a knight now, so he needed to start approaching things with more responsibility and consideration! And sneaking an invisible Triumph into a jelly beans factory didn't exactly sound like very knight-like behavior. Even if it did also sound pretty amazing.

"Definitely!" It was much easier to agree with that. "He's going to lose his mind over all these different jellybeans! I don't think He'll mind too much if he's got those to soothe the pain of having missed out."

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[wildgalegirl]

"And if we take a bunch of pictures I can charm them up into big sort of hologram like things so he can get the feeling of being there!" Charlie was all about going with the flow.

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[somethingwithturquoise]

You know what kind of suckered? Remembering only after you decided to take the jellybean inspired wine tasting that the person you planned to torture with the idea of it couldn't even see the pictures you took.

Whatever. Guess she'd have to just fill his inbox with voice messages instead. Ha ha ha, take that, Ignis.

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[pocketpretzels]

After checking with the staff, it was determined that while the jelly beans did not contain actual gelatin, the coating used did contain other animal products.
Alas.

There were, however, just enough vegan-friendly chocolate items on offer at the wine pairing to make a slightly modified version of the experience worth it, so guess where Watts was headed to, tugging Steven who was modded with permission along with him?

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[hasaknightjob]

Steven went along gladly, afterwards putting in a preference for looking at the art. Which he enjoyed even if some of the pictures of things like American presidents didn't do much for him as subjects. He could still admire the cleverness involved in putting the pictures together.