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To think noone actually likes Love Hearts?

118 replies

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

OP posts:
PinkFootstool · 22/11/2025 14:23

Love them.

Also had them printed up with personalised labels for my wedding as favours 😂

NeverDropYourMooncup · 22/11/2025 14:24

I had no choice but to like them for many years following my Christmas Day near expiration following an unfortunate incident when walking whilst consuming the last of a Sherbert Fountain aged five.

Love the sweet and sour and lack of stickiness. And the fact that, unlike the Sherbert Fountains, they're gluten free - the reason why I still can't have fountains despite being less likely these days to tip a quarter of a tube of powder down my lungs due to tripping on a broken garden path slab.

Northquit · 22/11/2025 14:31

Awrite · 22/11/2025 13:32

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

This ^^

I wouldn't go for Parma Violets first but I certainly wouldn't throw them away

nush18 · 22/11/2025 14:39

Ooooh, I had no idea there were so many people out there who are wrong like them!

Also, the Parma violet haters are insane, they're delectable!

OP posts:
Abracadabrador · 22/11/2025 14:42

If you like them, do you also like the taste of paracetamol and other chalky tablets?

Have a nice bite into them before having a drink? 🤢

Shoutygouty · 22/11/2025 14:43

Eating some I found in my son’s bag right now. Delicious!

madaboutpurple · 22/11/2025 14:44

Parma violets would be my favourite, I got a pack yesterday and swizzels are my second best!

DarkEyedSailor · 22/11/2025 14:44

Abracadabrador · 22/11/2025 14:42

If you like them, do you also like the taste of paracetamol and other chalky tablets?

Have a nice bite into them before having a drink? 🤢

No because paracetamol is bitter and not sugary and lovely.

CarterBeatsTheDevil · 22/11/2025 14:46

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 don't like them for themselves but my mum loved them and so I kind of love them in her memory

WhatMe123 · 22/11/2025 14:47

I love them

ClassicalQueen · 22/11/2025 14:48

I actually really like them! Along with parma violets. However I very rarely eat sweets.

TomatoSandwiches · 22/11/2025 14:50

I like LH and Refreshers, any zingy, tangy sweet is good.

SheepShankers · 22/11/2025 14:50

You’re the kind of person I’d love to share a tub of sweets with - I’d be able to get the best ones by default.

What are your opinions on Roses v Quality Street?

ohyesido · 22/11/2025 14:52

I love them. In unguarded moments I like to shove the whole packet into my mouth and crunch them into a fizzy sugary melee

curious79 · 22/11/2025 14:52

Love em
and love love Parma violets. Heaven!

RightOnTheEdge · 22/11/2025 14:54

nush18 · 22/11/2025 14:39

Ooooh, I had no idea there were so many people out there who are wrong like them!

Also, the Parma violet haters are insane, they're delectable!

Oh I'm torn now!
I voted YANBU but your Palma Violet comment has me shocked and appalled!
😱😂

Oganesson118 · 22/11/2025 14:55

I really like them!

I agree with all the comments about Parma Violets being horrible but my 8 year old absolutely loves them!

soupyspoon · 22/11/2025 14:57

nush18 · 22/11/2025 14:39

Ooooh, I had no idea there were so many people out there who are wrong like them!

Also, the Parma violet haters are insane, they're delectable!

OP you have stumbled upon a den of weirdos.

Horrible 'sweets'.

You are completely right.

Namechangedforspooky · 22/11/2025 14:58

I like them
much nicer than haribo which are horrible chewy things!

LaurieFairyCake · 22/11/2025 14:59

Love both Parma and Love hearts

Spuriousdealings · 22/11/2025 14:59

The devils work, I've hated them since a kid, like Indigestion tablets, husband loves em though

Bigearringsbigsmile · 22/11/2025 15:00

God I love them. And refreshers too

EmeraldRoulette · 22/11/2025 15:01

Absolutely adore them
Cant have them in the house

fantafantastico · 22/11/2025 15:06

I love them, and parma violets are even better

PinkFootstool · 22/11/2025 15:07

Parma Violets are nasty. Perfumed too much like an elderly woman's perfume from the 80s and not even sweet. I never understood them.