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To think noone actually likes Love Hearts?

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nush18 · 22/11/2025 13:17

Sweet tooth moment and all we had were a packet of love hearts which I begrudgingly had a couple of, and once again pondered about who actually would choose love hearts as first option? They're like sweet and sour chalk...

Does anyone actually enjoy them except in dire emergencies such as the above? Are there any other sweets you can't get your head around?

Yabu - love them how dare you
Yanbu - They're only still going thanks to some genius advertising/product design

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LiveLuvLaugh · 24/11/2025 17:14

I hate them all. They make my mouth sore.

ToDoOrNot2Do · 24/11/2025 10:49

I love them! I know someone who uses them for reflux when they don’t have gaviscon (or maybe they just don’t like the taste!)

guinnessguzzler · 24/11/2025 10:47

QueenClinomania · 24/11/2025 08:09

I love parma violets. All you haters post them my way!
I buy tubs of sweets for Halloween and always pick out all the parma violets before the rest can go out for the trick or treaters

Tbf, the trick or treaters are probably quite grateful for that! 😂 Much as I also love them myself. Prefer fizzers though.

EleanorReally · 24/11/2025 10:19

i like the white ones best

Sartre · 24/11/2025 10:17

Gosh my 5 yo absolutely loves them.

QueenClinomania · 24/11/2025 08:09

I love parma violets. All you haters post them my way!
I buy tubs of sweets for Halloween and always pick out all the parma violets before the rest can go out for the trick or treaters

Dita73 · 24/11/2025 08:08

They’re actually really good to help nausea

DriveMeCrazy1974 · 24/11/2025 08:07

I like them but, being very old school, I HATE the new messages on them! They're rubbish - I don't want a smiley face or a winky face, I don't want modern messages, I want the old fashioned ones from the 1980s that were cute! The new ones are just completely rubbish and non-sensical to a Generation X girl like me!

MamaBearCharlie · 24/11/2025 08:03

My adult brother (36) genuinely loves them. To the point he can tell the difference between batches 😂😂. I was gobsmacked when he told me this fact about himself a year or so ago and I think about it often.

DoAWheelie · 23/11/2025 14:11

I love them, but not the purple ones - those taste too similar to Parma violets and they are the devils smegma.

Fizzers are great too. And now I'm craving one of those multipacks with drumstick lollies and refreshers in them.

Jllllllll · 23/11/2025 14:08

I like them but like never buy them. Used to eat them from the kids party bags when they were little as they didn’t like them.

pointythings · 22/11/2025 18:59

I love them. I have to stop myself from buying them.

luckylavender · 22/11/2025 18:44

I love Love Hearts but much prefer Parma violets!

Blueuggboots · 22/11/2025 18:37

Refreshers are far superior.

DeanStockwell · 22/11/2025 18:35

Hmm I now want all the chalky sweets.
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WasThatACorner · 22/11/2025 18:29

Needmorelego · 22/11/2025 13:24

I like Parma Violets.
It's a unique club of about 20 of us in the universe that like them 😂😂😂

I like them. They taste like soap but I love it.

myglowupera · 22/11/2025 18:26

Oh I love Love Hearts. One of my kids doesn’t even like them so if he has some in his bucket at Halloween or gets a swizzles bag for Christmas, guess who happily takes some of them off his hands. 😄

Loubelou71 · 22/11/2025 18:10

They're meant to be good for indigestion. I like them. And PVs.

Yourinmyspot · 22/11/2025 17:50

I’d forgotten about refreshers that has brought back some memories my Granny always bought us a packet of refreshers happy times.

BlueEyedBogWitch · 22/11/2025 17:47

I love Love Hearts, but Parma Violets are bath cubes in disguise.

Lastandfirst · 22/11/2025 17:44

When I was pregnant with my second child I had such awful acid indigestion that I was literally addicted to them.
Ate packets of them.
Haven’t looked at them for 9 years.

Yourinmyspot · 22/11/2025 17:43

Awrite · 22/11/2025 13:32

I can't think of any sweets I don't like.

Me either! I like some more than others but very, very few I wouldn’t eat.

Yourinmyspot · 22/11/2025 17:42

I love them and Parma violets. I was supporting my friend who was running a marathon a couple of years ago and took a packet of love hearts and kept giving her one on the lap I ran with her. She thought they were great as she could let them dissolve and gave her a boost.

BauhausOfEliott · 22/11/2025 17:39

Oh, I love them. I also like Refreshers (not the chews, the ones in the tube), Fizzers and Parma Violets.

Parma Violets, like Turkish Delight, are a love or loathe thing.

FunMustard · 22/11/2025 17:24

This is rage bait. Love Hearts are the best!

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