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Parma Violets

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  • 17-10-2010 9:44pm
    #1
    cleremy jarkson
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    How is there even a market for these sweets!? I've never met anybody who likes them enough to buy them over another type of sweet. They taste like soap or something. Amazingly undelicious!! :eek:

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    Anybody in here like them???


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    Heyes
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    Think they are normal part of those party packs, there nasty though, dont know why they dont bin them. They have been around for YEARS though, so who knows...


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    star-pants
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    They're usually the bits left behind after those party bags. I like the ones that are the same shape&in a same packet but are fruit flavoured.


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    Faith
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    Ugh, they taste like chalk.


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    cleremy jarkson
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    I have to say, they're one of the only sweets that I just can't get my head around it being possible that some people like them. I used to think that about turkish delight and liquorice when I was younger but I can imagine now how some people could like them...but parma violets :confused:


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    Lex_Diamonds
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    I dont really like them, but I do eat them. I think its the texture, I love that crunchiness! But yeah, whoever unleashed them on the world should be banged to rights.


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    ceadaoin.
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    Yep, they taste like perfume or something.

    I do know someone who likes them though. I got one of those retro sweet jars a few years and this person ate all the leftover parma violets :eek:


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    phasers
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    I love them! Every Halloween I used to collect loads and loads of packets because nobody else liked them :D

    it used to be one fudge bar (ew) for 4 packs of parma violets


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    star-pants
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    I <3 fudge bars :D


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    phasers
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    star-pants wrote: »
    I <3 fudge bars :D
    We should arrange a swap :D


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    Ollchailin
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    Totally agree, they always end up in the bin. I saw a large pack of them in a shop once, I don't know who the hell buys them!!


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    Leeg17
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    They're the first things I go for, after the pink refreshers :cool:


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    nervous_twitch
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    +1, love these!


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    January
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    Love them too! and fudge bars....


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    Truley
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    Wow I completely forgot about them - what a blast from the past! They were a staple of party bags, trick or treat bags or multi packs when I was a kid. I agree they are rank, but I probably ate them anyway. A sweet is a sweet as far as I was concerned and you took what you could get back then :P


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    lisao80
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    My mother LOVES them, our local shop was stockin them recently and i reckon she was the only one buying them in there. I dont like them at all, tastes like perfume or flowers yuk!!


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    Pittybitty
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    Old lady perfume flavoured chalk - gross!


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    Mr. Presentable
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    phasers wrote: »
    We should arrange a swap :D

    I doubt you'd want to take a fudge-bar from star-pants :pac:

    Parma violets were always weird. Flower flavoured sweets :confused:


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