Morish Nuts

The Sydney Royal Easter Show has wrapped up for another year and it was a cracker! Our new site right outside the show bag pavilion was a huge success and we loved making new friends and seeing a lot of familiar faces.

A massive 810,000 people passed through the gates at the Sydney Royal Easter Show this year and it felt like just about every single person stopped by our stall. We were run off our feet!

 

  

One very familiar face that popped by for a visit was Greg Tibbits. Greg was the person responsible for introducing Morish Nuts to Virgin Blue 10 years ago. We can’t believe it has been 10 years! Time really does fly when you’re having fun. Fly!! Get it?! :)

Greg is now combining his love of cricket with a very successful career as a shareholder and senior executive running 11 Cricket centre stores around Australia. A big thank you to Greg; it was fantastic seeing you again! All at Morish Nuts wish you every success.

 

Archie (centre) with old friends; Greg Tibbits (Right) and his partner Allison Pan (Left)

 While the Sydney Royal Easter Show has now packed up, show season is not over yet.

Next up for the East is the NSW Caravan & Camping Show which started Friday, 20th April and will run until Sunday, 29th April. Also this weekend is the Royal Bathurst Show which is on from the 27th to the 29th of April. Be sure to pop by and say hello to Archie and Marie and pick up some delicious Morish treats.

For our friends in the West, don’t worry! We will be out and about this weekend, so you won’t miss out. We will be at the Harvey Agricultural Show (Friday 27th to Saturday 28th April) and the Treasured Craft Mothers Day Fair (Saturday 28th to Sunday 29th April) and we will be making an appearance at Tasting Australia (Saturday 28th to Sunday 29th April) for our South Australian fans.

We definitely have our hands full here at Morish!

 

It’s show season again which means there are lots of goodies being given away!

A BIG congratulations to the following lucky winners who scored themselves a Premium Show Bag:
L. Watt of Nelson Bay - Newcastle Show
S. Trout of Borambola, S. Pecotic of Forde and L. Parker of Farrer - Canberra Show
D. Wilson of Bulli - Taste of Sydney

 

Also, congratulations to these lucky people who entered our Guide Dogs Competition and scored themselves 2 tickets to the Sydney Royal Easter Show:

R. Pearson of Walgett
S. Bouladon of Narrabundah
M. Winchester of Stockton
M. Gama of Bossley Park
L. O’Keefe of Goonellabah
J. Hadgraft of Marsfield
R. Ferenczi, of Bronte
L . Tillott of Surf Beach
A. Metcalf of Evatt
L. Swales of Port Macquarie

Enjoy your day at the show guys and don’t forget to come visit our stall!

 

The annual Taste of Sydney Show from 8th - 11th March kicked off our Eastern Walkabout, and what a great way to begin our East-coast Morish adventure. The weekend pop-up restaurant festival that will give you 'an unforgettable gourmet experience' complete with eating, nibbling, drinking, tasting and shopping - a foodie's haven!

 

Well, as the best shows always go, this one was off to an interesting start - the first day of the show had to be cancelled last minute due to the crazy weather in Sydney. A massive downfall of rain, and it didn't look like it was going to stop! So much rain in fact, that a guy at Bondi wearing a wet suit sitting at the foot of some stairs looked like he was sitting under a waterfall!

 

The rest of the weekend was looking fairly unpromising at that point!

 

But then, miraculously, the following day the sun was out and you wouldn’t have known that there was even a light shower, let alone torrential winds and rain only just the day before. So we had 3 glorious days of show time fun, and there were plenty of characters and Morish lovers that we met through the weekend.

 

Photo: Taste of Sydney 

One keen customer departed our stand with a gift of Soft Nougat for a friend - we've been informed that it didn't quite make it to the recipient, and she'll now be shopping for replacement Nougat bars for her friend AND herself on our website! (Too right, we say!)

 

We also spotted Simon Leong, who loved our Macadamias! You can see his blog about the whole festival here - it takes a lot of effort and a keen stomach to get round to ALL the exhibitors in just 3 days!!

 

So in the end the show was a great success, and a great start to another Eastern Walkabout. The next stop will be the Newcastle Show this weekend!

Wake up! Wake up! It's Autumn already!! And the best bit about heading into the cooler months? ALL OF THE SHOWS OF COURSE!!

 

Remember Archie's Eastern Walkabout last year? Well, we're travelling the East coast again and going to all those wonderful shows - filling up on that good ol' festival feel, catching up with old friends and nut lovers, and of course providing you with the huge joy of Morish show bags :-)

 

So get your calendars and diaries out and jot these down - if you're super duper excited like we are you may want to use highlighters and multicoloured pens too! Post its sometimes help, or flashing neon signs - but we hope you don't need to get that extravagant!

 

First up the Tastes of Sydney show from the 8th of March. The week after that (no messing about with free time here!) find us at the Newcastle Show (16th - 18th March). And then as we head into April, a bumper of a month we go!!

 

Those keenly awaiting the Sydney Royal Easter Show will get to go wild again; bring on the show rides, big crowds and lots and lots of show bags! We'll be there from 5th April until the 18th. And if you feel the need to see the show again and again, we'd be more than happy to assist your sugar levels with a bit of our special caramel coated Morish Premium Nut Mix.

 

We'll take a quick breath then shoot over to the NSW Caravan & Camping Show from the 20th. And while that's happening, we do a tricksy double whammy in the last weekend where you'll see us at the Royal Bathurst Show AS WELL between 27th - 29th April.

 

Yep, that's right - we can multi-task so well you might as well call us a woman!

 

And not to keep the other side of the country awaiting their Morish fix - you'll also see us at…Wagin's Woolorama (9th & 10th March), Araluen's Fremantle Chilli Festival (10th and 11th March) and the Perth Caravan & Camping Show from 15th - 19th March.

 

And what about that middle part of Australia who don't get to go to any of these shows?! Well, hit us up online and you can get in as much Morish munching as you can get your virtual hands on. Our ordering system is quick and easy, and we post your scrummy goods out to you as soon as we get the order.

 

Marv!

Another successful year at the Sydney Royal Easter Show! HUGE attendance of over 900,000 over the 14 days with a mere 150,000 on Good Friday getting ready to enjoy the long weekend Easter break. The million mark was well within reach, but unfortunately the last three days of the show produced non-stop rain. The weather bureau called them SHOWERS – well, this was a very loose definition of the word… I just do not think the fellows at the cosy weather bureau office popped their heads out of the window to confirm reality!

Set up as usual was frenetic, none more so than watching the district exhibit prepare the fabulous displays of produce, each year a different theme. It is difficult to imagine that from this chaos arises a world class display that attracts visitors from all over Australia and internationally.
The produce is also pretty spectacular, like this bevy of 200kg pumpkins...

   

...Now THAT’S a pumpkin!

Australian growers are renown for innovation, none more so than our long standing neighbour at the show, Marcel de Wit of The Chilli Factory. Marcel has grown (and had verified) the world’s hottest chilli, the fiercely named TRINIDAD SCORPION BUTCH T. “Pfft… It wouldn’t be THAT hot!” do I hear you say?

Well, chilli potency is measured on the Scoville scale. A jalapeno contains about 5000 Scoville heat units; a bird's eye chilli between 50,000 and 100,000. But the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T? 1.46 MILLION Scoville. The current Guinness World Records is the Naga Viper chilli, measuring 1.38 million… The Trinidad seems to fit Marcel’s “Mind Blowingly Hot” range! In fact, for some portions of the manufacturing process, protective clothing must be worn to “fend off” the chilli fumes – well, we at Morish certainly don’t need industrial gas masks to make our delicious candy coating!

Watching the reactions of show-goers brave enough to sample the Trinidad can be quite spectacular. The ranges of facial expressions as the chilli heat hits provided quite a bit of amusement! Clients in distress are directed to the Morish Nuts stand for a fix of Morish Choc Macadamia or Choc Peanuts to neutralise the worst of the heat…





We also welcomed back to the show many of our regulars such as Mrs Fitzgerald of Tamarama, her twelfth consecutive year visiting the show and our Morish stand to collect her regular show bag. Thank you for your support over our last decade (and a bit! – and still going strong).

This year’s show seemed to leave us a little star struck. Also seen sampling and enjoying Morish Nuts was the Premier of NSW, Barry O’Farrell, and the family who we welcomed to the Morish Family, and Dawn Fraser and her daughter passing by and who just loved Morish Nuts. And even some international visitors including Jenken who felt that anything less than the Jumbo show bag would have been inadequate.

It was also a pleasure to greet Airin Zainul from Media Prima Malaysia, a media and events organisation in the mould of News Limited. She led a team of 63, researching the 10 most successful public events in the world of which the Royal Easter Show features high on the list. Well we certainly know that at least twenty Morish showbags are now destined for lucky recipients in Malaysia! And congratulations to Dorothy Empam, a lucky winner of the day’s Premium Cabin Carry Bag – it is on route to Malaysia, we hope she will generously share with her colleagues (however tough that may be!).

So 2011 at the show is all finished, and once again we had a fabulous time at Sydney! A big thanks to all the nutty nibblers who visited us at the show, and to Kay and the crew with a particular mention to Jason, Katherine, George and Emily. We look forward to seeing you all in 2012!

And for all those who have already gone through their Morish supplies from the show – you can get your fix again by ordering online and having your favourite treats delivered right to your doorstep!

Happy nibbling! We’re off on the road again to continue on our Eastern Walkabout, keep checking here and on our Facebook page for updates!