Earlier this year, the company brought Root Beer Float back once more, along with the popular Cotton Candy flavor.

Apparently that went over well, since a few years later Just Born released a Root Beer Float flavor.

The company discontinued it in the '70s, and then brought it back as a limited anniversary edition in the late '90s. The first was a root beer flavored candy that featured a smiling steamboat on the package. Starting in the ‘60s, the company began introducing new flavors like Root-T-Toot, Jack and Jill and Jolly Joe’s. Mike and Ike’s original fruit mix, which contained cherry, orange, lemon and lime candies, carried the brand through its early years. THE FIRST FLAVOR ADDITIONS INCLUDED ROOT-T-TOOT AND JACK AND JILL. The marshmallow Easter Peeps that Rodda workers painstakingly made by hand, meanwhile, were automated by Sam Born’s son, Bob, and became a mainstream hit. Rodda’s jellybean expertise helped Just Born expand Mike and Ike into new fruit flavors and additional varieties like cotton candy. In 1953, Just Born purchased the Rodda Candy Company, which specialized in manufacturing marshmallows and jellybeans. JELLYBEANS AND MARSHMALLOWS HELPED THE COMPANY GROW. Popular theories include a reference to Dwight Eisenhower, to a popular vaudeville act, and to a 1937 song titled “Mike and Ike (The Twins).” In response to a question on its website about the names’ origin, Just Born cheekily claims that Mike and Ike are “the founders of Mike and Ike candy brand.” 3. As for where the names originated, nobody knows-not even the company (or so they claim). Just like Aunt Jemima and Betty Crocker, Mike and Ike are fictional food characters.

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