The Farris Wheel

Loved this place, the snack selection was awesome. But the best part was the extra friendly Darla! A wealth if information in all the candy, nuts and snacks. I love the old time feel of days past. First time here and will return again. Thank you for helping me decide what to purchase.

The staff here is wonderful!
Anything with chocolate and caramel is just heavenly and totally desired! The Farris Wheel does a wonderful job if creating instant personal gifts in any fashion with any candy.
They are truly dedicated to their craft. And it’s sweet!

The Farris Wheel is a cathedral of candy… not so overwhelmingly huge so as to toss its purveyors into a Scrambler-​ride of confusion, but not so small as to disappointingly limit options.
The Farris Wheel offers chocolates, candies, and other sugary-​sweet, or salty (think loads of different sample-​able styles of energy nut-​mixes) at reasonable prices given its cleanliness, friendliness and small-​town Saturday night feel.
The owners are painstakingly kind, offering samples without the garauntee of a pay-​off. They’ll suggest remedies for your heartbreak woes (mini cream cookies coated in chocolate? or allergy-​inducing chocolate toffee caramel coated almonds?). Come in, try a bite, and you’ll be pleased with the Farris Wheel’s loving embrace.

Though it’s fairly obvious as to the difference in focus between Nifty Nut House and The Farris Wheel, they both offer a lot of open stock candies that are apparently pretty easy to find in candy stores, supermarkets, and anywhere else where plastic bins and/​or sneeze guard counters can be found. I don’t consider a good portion of the stuff either of these two places to sell very good candy, and unless you have a need to purchase malted milk balls of questionable origin by the pound, I wouldn’t recommend them. What sets Farris Wheel apart, however, is everything else. The old timey-​feel of the candy «shoppe,» and the appropriately old timey candies that the nostalgic may find within. More importantly, they hang their hat on a handful of specialty confectioners, namely Asher’s Chocolate, a Pennsylvania-​based candy maker; Marich Confectionery, a company known for its innovative use of real fruit in its sweets; and Abdallah Candies, a Minnesota-​based company (also appropriately Lebanese). It’s here that Farris Wheel stands apart, and though they come at a premium, the chocolate covered peanuts of Asher’s, and the pastel chocolate-​covered dried strawberries, blueberries, and cherries of Marich are well-​worth the visit. It’s not the sort of stuff I’d splurge on every day, but as a gift it’s well-​suited, and appropriate as the store seems to do quite a bit of business in that area of concern. Appropriately kitschy for a store connected to Piccadilly Market.