Whizz Pop Candy Shop and Fish n chips
In days of old, I loved the well made candy Easter Eggs. They were so pretty and artfully designed, not to forget delicious if you got around to eating your egg.
Of course, having a sweet tooth, I would eventually demolish my candy egg, although after admiring its finesse and beauty. I got to wondering does anyone make those candy eggs in the Millennium years?
When I was a teenager I kept scrap books with advertisements of beauty products and fashion in one, and with news clippings in another. I also hand wrote instructions on this and that, including how to make Easter eggs from sugar!
Don’t know where that one got to, but I was pleasantly surprised when I saw on the Facebook Page for the wonderfully named “The Whizz Pop Candy Shop” that they had got in my beloved candy eggs.
Of course I fretted over whether any would be left by the time I got to their store in Mandurah, which is a 50 minutes drive from where I live.
They have another store in Hillarys (where I first sampled their sweet delights) but that is North of the river and very far away. It was called “Sweethearts” when my partner and I stumbled across it in 2014.
I cleverly persuaded my twin sister to go with me to Mandurah on Wednesday 17th April. We even took the day off work and booked into the Mandurah Foreshore Motel for one evening!
Arriving around midday, after a lot of antics from me, as I was determined to enjoy this holiday and be silly in the making of it (due to having our holiday in January this year spoiled a bit by my being hospitalized for 5 days), I flopped on my bed and said sadly “Now we’ve got 4 hours to wait to go to the Whizz Pop Candy shop then to the Fish n Chippie for dinner.”
My sister sensibly said, “Why don’t we go right now to the candy shop then to the chippie and buy fish and chips for lunch?”
The Candy shop did not fail to delight. I was over the moon at being able to look at a choice of tins that looked like our beloved cassette tapes of old. Yes, when I was in my 20s I was introduced to Compact Discs and thought them a thing of wonder.
Before then we had listened to music on the radio and on cassette tapes. I had seen small cassette tape tins on the Whizz Pop Candy shop Facebook page months ago, and also thought that they would all sell out.
But here they were, and I bought a Love-mix Tape (tin) into which I aptly put some real original Love Hearts lollies into the tin!
You can see our booty in the photo at the top of this Story, the Sherbet cones and the Sour bears bought by my sister, and the other 3 bags of lollies being chosen by me for my partner.
I greatly dithered over whether to buy more than 1 packet of “Acid Drops’ but at around $3.50 or $4.00 per 100 gram pack, I left it at 3 packets of different sweets for him.
At home he told me he liked “Pear Drops” and when he was a kid in England (where he is from) someone would offer the children an “Acid Drop” and they would run away because the idea of an acidic something scared them. LOL.
After the candy shop we found the Walkabout Souvenir shop, which was a delight, and made a few small purchases there. Then to the famous Mandurah Foreshore fish and chip shop where I ordered barramundi and chips with home-made coleslaw, and my sister opted for snapper and chips with coleslaw.
Sadly for my partner, I had also bought a Fry’s Peppermint cream (one of his favorites), but after our lunch of fish and chips, I shared it with my sister, for sweets.
We were a bit hungry later so ended up sharing a chicken teriyaki (without rice, due to a language mix-up) from a Japanese restaurant nearby, for dinner.
Of course, after that, while happily watching a new Australian mystery series, we had to have a cup of tea and something sweet with that.
Guess what? That sweet was a Walnut Whip each!
If you have never had a Walnut Whip (and you don’t mind it being made by Nestle, or even if you do), as a sweet lover, you need to eat one of these. I have written extensively on my blog “Our Lovely World” about these wonderful treats.
I had considered buying a $20 giant Galaxy egg for my partner (it contained small eggs) but heard his ghost whisper to me “Don’t spend twenty dollars on that.” So I didn’t buy it and I’m jolly glad that I didn’t, because there was then more money to spend on me.
On Thursday we went back to the Souvenir Shop and I bought myself a gorgeous iron ore necklace. It has largish faceted oblong “bullet” shaped beads which look black or dark green, which are interspersed with round purple beads, and it has the metaphysical properties of “grounding.”
Earth to Celine. Step away from the Whizz Pop Candy shop! I popped in there after buying my necklace, to buy a Walnut Whip for $3.50 AUD for my partner as I had told him that I would bring back some midget gems and a walnut whip for him.
He was grateful for his part of the “loot” (although he teased me a lot asking me where his giant egg was, and this may be because he gave me a Dinosaur sized chocolate egg last year after I constantly harangued him to do so).
The memories were very sweet, and I now rest at home, grateful for my sister, my partner (who cooks for me, otherwise I would be a skeleton as I’m a bad cook) and for the food I eat and for those who produce and provide it.
Easter is a perfect time for digging around or searching for those candy eggs and for consuming fish!
Happy Easter everybody.
About the Author
Celine Lai was born in Malaya (not Malaysia) and is the oldest inter-country adopted person in Australia. She loves reading and writing, and runs WordPress blogs and writes technical documents. She blogs mainly on Fascinating Animals.
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