The Carousel Nut Bar

I have to admit I really only buy one thing here and it’s those delicious little peaz wheelz… they look like tiny green wagon wheels and are a great novelty snack food. They tend to be crazy moorish, so look out. They taste a little like bacon and addiction. Just a couple of bucks for a 500g or 250g bag they won’t break the bank either.
I’ll have to defer to others opinions on the full selection, but if you want to give a truly unique Australian snack food a go this is the place to grab it!

Usually I’m a sucker for cobwebbed old signs and clunky disarray, but the Carousel Nut Bar really puts me off. I like my nuts fresh, and everything at Carousel looks distinctly dusty. As Andrew C. pointed out, they seem to be more of a candy store than a nut bar anyway! There isn’t a big range of nuts, and you’re much better off going to one of the other nut stalls in the markets — try Charlesworth or the one near the elevator.
Even as a confectionary stall, Carousel doesn’t really win me over. There aren’t that many special flavours or interesting lollies. I’d prefer to go to the lolly shop in the centre of the markets.

The Carousel Nut Bar is a bit of a time warp, and looks like something which would belong in the 1970’s at the royal show.
The selection of nuts is, I must say, not huge. And it seems that more than a «nut bar» the Carousel is more of a confectionary stall. There are huge lolly pops and massive bags of popcorn. Cocktail mixes and swirling sweets of all colours shapes and sizes. They also have the traditional assortment of mixed lollies which can be viewed through glass fronted paneling at the front of the wagon, and which can be slightly dangerous for those who tend towards nostalgia.
Personally I tend to feel a bit ill seeing all that sugar in one place. Although, when you finally do find the nuts, they aren’t to bad a deal, with a big bag of mixed nuts in the shell going for about $ 6.50, with similar prices for bags of walnuts and the like.