Fast Fiction

Last Friday I took a half-day from work. Not the morning off or the afternoon off, but the middle off.

I drove to Irwindale at the invitation of Chris, the founder and president of Candy Warehouse. Why you ask?

Because they sell candy.

Chris gave me the grand tour and it was just as I expected. A warehouse with small office facilities. Pretty much a cubicle farm (two wide and six deep?). He showed me his little photo set up for taking shots of candy (it pretty much looks like mine except he has studio lights and I have to use available light). It was Friday, which is a light shipping day, so it was just him and one of his warehouse workers there.

The warehouse was just as I’d hoped it would be (only a little smaller). Aisles and aisle of warhouse shelving with colorful cases of candy.

He loaded me up with oodles of samples as he showed me around. Some of it was just too weird for reviewing (earwax candy) but I got to take home lots of things I’ve always wanted to try, including: the long stemmed lollipops I saw all over the wholesale district when Crispin came to visit, finger lites (a light up lollipop), gummi sushi, gummi hot peppers and chocolate poker chips and playing cards.

It took me two sessions to take photos of it all and some of it is already gone.

Not the 5lb box of gummi clown fish though. Yet.

(you can read another version of this post a la.foodblogging.com)