Fat Phege's Fudge Factory

Back in early 1978 my mother and I went over to Victoria to check out the University of Victoria. I’d previously been considering a couple of universities in Ontario, but after taking a look at UVic, that was where I ended up going. All irrelevant back story.

It was during this trip that we looked at some brochures in the hotel and discovered one for Fat Phege’s Fudge Factory located in Market Square. That’s a good walk from the Parliament Building or the Empress Hotel. Head up Government Street and turn right at Johnson and the square is down a ways. Its full of curio shops and restaurants.

Fat Phege’s has great fudge. Since that first trip in 1978 I’ve been back there countless times. I’m sure I went there at least every month that I attended UVic and whenever I’m in town I have to stop in for some fudge. I’ve bought fudge all over the world and I’d say Fat Phege’s is among the best I’ve had.

A few years later I was delighted to be shopping at Guildford Mall one day and there was a Fat Phege’s just opened there. I can’t recall if the owner sold his Victoria shop and come over to the mainland to open a sister store or if they had decided to expand and open the second shop. Unfortunately they didn’t stay in business too long there. I guess Surreyites don’t appreciate good fudge. Or maybe it was the prices. They are up there.

Back in the early nineties when Kerry and I started seeing each other he knew how much I liked this fudge and he phoned in to place an order. At the time I was renting the basement suite at my parent’s house so he asked the staff member if they could put the fudge in a plain wrapper and not put their name on it anywhere because he thought my father might get into it first. Ha ha! That’s funny! But the clerk did tell him that a lot of the fudge they mail out goes missing and now that he thought of it, maybe it was due to identifying themselves as Fat Phege’s Fudge Factory on the package.

So I wonder. Was it the Canada Post employees enjoying some fudge? Or perhaps another member of the household who got to the mail first that day?

Fat Phege’s fudge is pricey, but no more so that any other fudge and candy shop. Check them out on your next visit to our capital.

http://www.fatphegesfudgefactory.com