Ditters Nut & Fruit

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Ditters is probably the longest standing store of it’s kind in Adelaide.
Their products are all locally produced, as far as I’m aware, I believe their production factory is in Adelaide somewhere.
They have nuts coated in most anything you can think could plausibly coat a nut. Dried fruits and some tasty tasty cakes.
I’d suggest popping in if you’re in the city. And of course if you’re into this sort of thing.

I think of Ditters as the ‘connoisseurs’ choice for dried fruit and nuts. The old Gawler Place store has been there as long as I can remember. My mum used to take me there when I was a little’un, in my quilted red jumpsuit (don’t ask), and buy me some choccie frogs before we headed back to the car park everytime we went into town.
I pop in there a couple of times a year… for one thing… Ditters Gourmet Cakes. Not a fan personally, but my mum loves them! Nuts, mixed in with dried/​glacé fruit and other gear… sorts me out for Birthdays, Mothersdays and X-mas’s! For that alone it gets 4 stars!

There are quite a few ditters shops around the place or counters mixed in with other shops. Their main factory is only at Torrensville and it’s great to go and have a look at. You can smell it before you even walk in!
Ditters to me offers reliabilty through longevity. Businesses don’t last this long unless they are doing something right. And the market they cover is quite a niche market and they have never found the need to expand from what they have always offered.
Best place to go to get really nice pre packed gifts of nuts, glazed fruit and the likes for anyone you are not sure what to buy for. I love the ones in the round boxes. Or you can just pick up a bag with a couple of hundred grams of your favourites to nibble on.

Ditters — Nut and Fruit Specialists of South Australia are a bit of an institution really. Clark Ditter is the grandson of the fellow who originally started Ditters, Otto Kurt Ditter.
They have been sitting there in that lovely little store at the North end of Gawler Place since I was a teenager, so at least thirty years. The seductive nutty smell of cashews and Brazil nuts under warming lights or the sweet smell of dried fruit always pleases. The range they keep includes raw nuts, processed nuts, dried fruits, glacé fruits, a variety of chocolates and nut and fruit mixes. Ask for some Scrumpchees, a dry-​roasted peanut coated with cheese (if you like that sort of thing).
I love going in there and getting a special mix of fruit and nut for nibbles just because of the historic feeling of the place and that sense of continuity — you know, once something has been there ‘forever’ you kind of feel a little ownership of it on some levels ridiculous as that seems.
The prices are pretty good; you can get cheaper at the supermarkets, but I maintain that the quality is what you get at Ditters, and if you are eating food to be healthy, or to get over giving up smoking (which I was for a while after doing so) by having something healthy to munch down on when you craved doing something respectful with your mouth; lord knows there are plenty of things to do with it that run the passage from ‘X’ Rated to completely disrespectful… eating nuts it one of the better responses to stopping smoking.
Good time to change the subject before I get myself into some sort of trouble. For a long time it was fun to put on a silly voice and say «Nibble Nobby’s Nuts» but I think that may be a generational thing and Ditters are not Nobby’s. I love a good mouthful though, which is really what I was getting at. Nuts are great for you on so many levels. There are good trace elements and minerals in them. dried fruit is also pretty good and they have a broad selection, as well as seed, so get yourself into Ditters for a look and a smell next time you are in the city, and grab some nuts to munch on.
If you are allergic to nuts it is probably the last place you’d want to go, avoid it and live. If you are not allergic, you’ll probably end up loving it as a stop off for a treat every so often.