Wierschem’s Train Town Candies & Ice Cream Parlor

This place is wonderful for the fan of candy, chocolates, taffy, old school favorites and an assortment of oddities. They also have ice cream and drinks. I am a candy freak so this place is heaven for me… I gave them four stars because they are expensive. I bought a pack of 15 piece double mint gum and a regular size pack of sugar babies… came to a little over $ 4.00.

This place has a huge selection of candies, popcorn, and ice cream. There was a lot to choose from but I ended up with the English Toffee Fudge bar. It was a little pricier than I expected. Also, I little too sweet for my liking. I could only have a couple bites at a time. The white fudge was very soft, almost marshmallow-​like and the toffee was soft. I was expecting a little bit of a crunch to offset the creaminess. ³⁄₅

The salt water taffy selection is huge. My favorite flavor here is vanilla… delicious. The taffy is creamy melt in your mouth. They also carry old fashion hard to find candy like mallo bars, abba-​zaba, and cowtails… Ice cream… homemade fudge… bottled sodas. knick knacks. The staff is friendly and helpful.

This is a really fun store! It had favorites for both myself and my husband — candy and trains!

My daughter said the sundae had, «too much hot fudge.» I don’t think that this is a huge problem. The folks were very friendly. The store had a very large selection if ice cream and candy. My daughter also said, «It was heaven.» What more needs to be said?

We go there quite a bit because my grandson loves it, and lives nearby, but I have to be honest and admit that a lot of the candy is stale and also that it tends to be very expensive. We laugh about how much it ends up costing, but they do get points for having such a wide variety and therefore can give real meaning to the phrase «like a kid in a candy store». My advice when you go there is check the sell by date if at all possible and if the salt water taffy is too hard, skip it. Still, your kids will probably love it so it’s possibly worth a visit, if you come to town, for that reason alone… no point in having grandchildren if you can’t indulge them a little is what we always say.

OK, let me make this review simple.
They have glass bottle Pepsi from Mexico, that is about all I should have to say about this great place. I am sure you will be asking for more, so here we go.
Yes, they have ice cream, candy, soda and old fashion Candies, but they also have souvenirs, they have train tracks for the kids or older kids.
What really caught our attention to this place, was the friendly people that work here, the lady and gentleman that were working that day, seamed to be family members too, so when we walked in with all five of our kids, they treated us too like family and made our kids feel like they were at home. I know this was genuine because we have walked in to other places, and they look at us like «keep those kids in line or you will be out of here so fast». We did not get that here, of course we walked out of this place with some great candy for the drive home (about 2 ½ hours) and of course my soda in glass bottle, also a great day in my mind.
We look forward to our next trip to Gold Country and stopping by Wierschem’s again.

One of my favorite things about visiting old mining towns is stumbling onto an old fashioned candy shop. This place has bins upon bins of candies. A lot of older names that will make you nostalgic for your childhood as well as possibly the biggest assortment of salt water taffy ever. I especially like their choices of salty licorice. Score!

I stopped doing business with this dump. Candy was stale. Owners (Ma, Pa, young lady) were always very rude — like hick town yokels. They would make personal comments to me (about my shoes and the type and amount of candy that I was purchasing) that I found to be particularly offensive. They never once said, «Good Afternoon,» «Thank You,» or «Come Again.»

I now purchase candy from Amazon — It’s fresher and a whole lot cheaper.
I want to make my purchases in Jackson, but not from moron «business» owners.
If you want to be treated like trash, please visit this establishment: You won’t be disappointed.

I run a children’s camp once a year in Jackson… one of the highlights of the week is when I take the kids down to town and treat them to ice cream, sundaes, etc from Train town! It has an amazing ambiance and I love the selection of Taffies! I also love the old candies they have in the back… candies you haven’t seen since you were a kid!

HORRIBLE OWNERS! RUDE! Candy that is OVER 3 YRS OLD in the store… like the snickers bar I purchased and later saw the expatriation date. Barbara (the owner) followed me around the store… thinking I Didn’t notice, acting as if I was steeling. Would rather go to the Safeway up the hill. NOT recommended to friends or enemies.

We stumbled upon this candy store while visiting Jackson, CA. When we saw that they had an ice cream shoppe in-​store and that they made frozen coffee drinks like Starbucks we wanted to order something. They also had the matcha powder to make frothy green tea drinks. When we requested a green tea matcha smoothie with melon syrup in it, which they sold at the store, they refused to make it for us saying that they felt uncomfortable putting so many ingredients into one drink. What the hell??? I’m the customer, put in the drink whatever I am requesting. As long as I am paying for it, you don’t have the right to tell me what I want in it. We had a large basket of candy that we were planning on buying and when we got this sorry-​ass excuse for not making the drinks we wanted, we left the basket sit on the floor and left.
I called the owner a few days later and explained what happened and she was so indifferent it was unbelievable. Apparently, pissing off customers and having them not spend their money at her store is something that doesn’t bother her in this tough economy.
This is a candy store with high prices on many items located in a small town. I’m surprised they are still making enough to keep the doors open.

The sign for this place should be «The biggest selection of taffy and stripe candy you’ve even seen… and model kits.»

Things seem slower as you mosey through Jackson. So stroll into Wierschem’s for a bit of nostalgia. Candy and lots of it in barrels, on shelves. You name it, they got it. So much to choose from. Popular gummies, jelly beans to nostalgic candy and taffy. I come here for the vast choices in coffee beans. Ya, who knew? You can get your sugar and caffeine fix right here in Jackson on Main. So go visit these kind folks and enjoy.