Sweets you hated as a child

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Not sure if this has been done before.ill start with..
Sherbet flying saucers
Original caramac
Refreshers
Pink panther chocolate
Love hearts
Round toffee flavour lollipops
And lastly not so much a sweet.. Lucky bags they promised so much and delivered so little.
Memories of a 70s kid.

Always found white chocolate mice sickly and also hated flying saucers and watermelon flavour jjolly ranchers!

Parma violets. Every type of foul. It's a bad sweet that children can't eat.

I bought those with my sweetie money from the icer thinking they were a new sweet 🤮

anything licorice like sherbet fountains
parma violets do not think anyone liked those!
Trebor strong mints

Nasty chalky necklace and bracelet sweets on elastic - yuk

Cough Candy mmmm
Black jacks even more mmm
Bounty bars ..lovely

I never found a dead fly in one ( thankfully!) but they were horrible sweets. So dry and plastic tasting.

Send me your Parma violets and flying saucers. I still buy flying saucers in the petrol station. Parma violets I can’t get here so always stock up when I’m back I. The UK.

Exactly what I came on here to say! Revolting.

Also Fry's Turkish Delight.

I love a Parma violet. Can’t remember if I like them as a kid but I know I hated spangles.

Parmaviolets, although I didn’t know that’s what they were called until this thread! Black Jacks, liquorice and cigarettes. Oh and Turkish delight.

Pear drops
Cherry lips
Chocolate limes
Some cracknell thing
Marzipan
Jazzies
Milk gums

Fruit bonbons.

Great wrappers, and shaped like a little bar but with rounded ends

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There are so many sweets on this thread that I loved as a kid! However, chocolate limes were, and remain, absolutely rank.

I don't recall meeting anyone ever who likes coffee flavour Revels🤢

I love coffee flavoured revels, @Devilsmommy - pleased to meet you! 😉😘

Nice to meet you too even if you are a coffee revel loving weirdo 🤣

Yes, who the hell liked those? They’re like satanic suppositories. Ugh.

Also hated Silver Mints, rhubarb and custard sweets, white chocolate, Juicy Fruits, pear drops, liquorice, candy floss, and those strawberry shoelaces.

Yes!! That’s them, @BangersAndGnash - thank you.

I loved them! (Still do.) But not with dead flies.

Child of the 60s here, and as a previous poster said, it’s hard to think of a sweet I didn’t like. A few notable exceptions are chocolate limes, marzipan and the (now thankfully forgotten) Jap Desserts.

Parma violets
Pear drops

Huh?? What an odd child you were!!

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I can't think of any in particular as I'd have just avoided them & wouldn't remember them.

Anything banana, spearmint or liquorice. Also, dolly mixtures, Victory Vs or Fisherman's Friends (70s version!), wasn't mad about fruit gums or sweet cigarettes. Hated Arctic Roll too!

Love Hearts, Refreshers, Parma Violets. I hate the texture and find them boring and unsatisfying. I love chocolate and did as a kid but it used to give me a raging thirst every time I ate it.

Another vote for horrible parma violets & jazzies
Nasty white chocolate mice
Black Jacks (liked the fruit salad version)
Liquorice alsorts
Anything aniseed
Fruit gums (fruit pastels were far superior)
Jolly ranchers
Cherry anything