to start a thread just to say parma violets are vile?

[lindsaygii]

One thread didn't seem enough to get across just how VILE Parma Violets are.

I'd rather eat floury, talc-flavoured, pebbles from the back of my granny's wardrobe.

YUK.

Parma violets are lush especiallly the little tiny ones

YABU.They are lovely.As are oysters and mussels.

Turkish delight is delicious too. I love anything flavoured with rose or violet.

I love cumin but I does have a vaguely bum smell.

oops. I meant "it" not "I". Looks really bad now.

Madame

Yes, not only do I smell of bum but I talks like Joe Grundy.

YANBU

They smell like toilet disinfectant and taste awful.

I had some today . Lovely

Parma violets are gorgeous!! YABU! I used to love violet creams too!!

Mmmmm parma violets (said a la Homer Simpson style )

I lurvvvvve parma violets.

My great nana used to buy them loose from the corner shop and kept them in her safe in her bedroom. Her jewelery was on her dressing table for all to see but the yummy parma violets were kept under lock and key lol.

Those parma violets were locked away so that blind people couldn't eat them by accident. Your great nana was just being socially responsible.

LOVE parma violets - and my kids won't eat them so I get the whole packet.

Also love:

Sprouts
Aniseed (sweet form or pernod - yum)
Licorice
Marzipan

.... and let's not forget Marmite!

parma violets,cherry lips and floral gum drops-food.of.the.gods

Noooooooooooooo I love them.

The smell, the taste yum, yum, yum.

Send 'em this way if you have any spare!

@Hezzamuma what's with the photo? And resurrecting a thread from 2009?

My granddad, who I idolised, bought me a packet once, when I was very little. I tasted one and thought he was playing a trick on me. I was quite upset. He thought he was giving me a treat! We called them cachous, by the way.