Purdy's Tour

This is our third consecutive yearly visit to the annual Purdy's Easter time factory tour. We parked the car on Kingsway kitty-corner to Purdy's. The queue outside was short, confined to the back parking lot off Earles Street and not visible from the factory front. Most likely the weather, the time change, and the fact it was 8:45AM on a Sunday, help to explain the smaller than normal crowd. We had to wait only 15 minutes.

The tour is interesting but one doesn't walk away with the "big picture" and a mental image of the flow and mixing and baking of the ingredients. A skeleton crew was on hand to give us an idea of how some of the sweets are made. Below are images from today's tour, in chronological order. I didn't take pictures at every station.

We all had to don hairnets. Betty suggested we keep ours on after the tour, buy some of those white workplace application face masks, and go to Hon's for lunch. While there, cough profusely.

We did exactly that—I mean go to Hon's for lunch, not the face mask bit.


This is at the second station. Nuts.


Peanut brittle on temperature-controlled tables. Yummy samples.


Smoothies. Have never tried them before. No samples.


You can see the public snaking through the factory. We were in groups of about twenty.


Conveyor belts. What's a factory without belts?


You probably want to click on the image to whet your appetite.


About halfway into the tour.


Small bunny moulds getting shaken around to eliminate bubbles and to distribute the chocolate.


More mould action. This machine hails from Europe. Click here to see it in action.


Near the end of the tour.


We all exited through the factory store which has on display the full line of products (unfortunately not at factory outlet prices).