Can Somebody Please Explain, What Kind Of Pervert...

Jookyjr · December 2015

...came up with these?

https://www.funkycandyshop.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/p/a/parma_violets_1_2.jpg

I got an 'Old Fashioned Sweet Collection' for Xmas, and there were 8 packets of Parma Violets in it. Never seen them before but assumed they were like Swizzels

Man, that is a taste you can never get off your tongue. And people used to eat these things for FUN?

Antique_Guitars · December 2015

Yeah they are a bit weird but still edible :-)

Jookyjr · December 2015

@Antique_Guitars said:

Yeah they are a bit weird but still edible :-)

Do you think? It just made me think of licking your granny.

I mean, not specifically your granny, just like a generic granny perfume wearing granny, where the perfume is kinda violet-smelling, and as all smells are particulate, you'd basically be eating violets anyway, which is much like the parma violets apart from not made from ham. If you see what I mean?

Alnico · December 2015

Kebab.

It's the only answer !

cacophony · December 2015

unwrap `em and stick them in your wardrobe. keep the moths off...

randomhandclaps · December 2015

They are meant to be suppository sweets.

Phil_aka_Pip · December 2015

they were popular when I were a kid, in the mid 1960s

Skipped · December 2015

I have a Gibson Chainsaw case which has seen life.
When I open the storage pocket there is a strong scent which will probably never be removed. I have no doubt that the scent is Parma Violets.

No! Wait a minute............

Wolfetone · December 2015

I'm amazed that you had never come across them. They're still around now. I have to agree about the taste though..... Yuk.

musicegbdf · December 2015

I love them , and the smell of them.
So do my kids . Daughter three even has an air freshener that smells the same in her car...

EricTheWeary · December 2015

Traditional sweets have their origins in tablets. If you look at a parma violet and, say, a paracetamol it's not hard to realise they were once made in the same machines. A quick Google didn't reveal anything but if parma violets, or their predecessors, were once made as breath freshners or as a digestif rather than as a sweet it wouldn't be suprising. Given that lavender was The scent for a long time for British ladies to daub themselves with they seem to come from the same school of purple and flowery smelling.
I've never particularly liked them though.

slacker · December 2015

I love them and cough candy.

Hertz32 · December 2015

I don't mind them, they do taste like dishwasher tablets though

mike_l · December 2015

The answer to the original question is, the same kind of pervert who puts bigsbys on guitars.............

strumjoughlamps · December 2015

my daughters fave sweets and she never has to fear them going 'missing' as no one else likes them.

ICBM · December 2015

A packet of Fisherman's Friends will take away the taste.

57Deluxe · December 2015

These are an acquired taste and only for those of us who are true connoisseurs of sweet shoppe sweets or yore...

Now, on the other hand, these would never have seen the shine of my 6d

http://www.bestbritishsweets.co.uk/user/products/large/barleyjar.jpg
https://sites.create-cdn.net/siteimages/17/2/1/172180/35/1/7/3517152/125x124.jpg

Neil · December 2015

57Deluxe said:

These are an acquired taste and only for those of us who are true connoisseurs of sweet shoppe sweets or yore...

Yes indeed - I love 'em.

ThorpyFX · December 2015

Filthy horrible sweets that taste of soap. The wife loves them though for some unexplainable reason.

rlw · December 2015

Jookyjr said:

@Antique_Guitars said:

Yeah they are a bit weird but still edible :-)

Do you think? It just made me think of licking your granny.

I mean, not specifically your granny, just like a generic granny perfume wearing granny, where the perfume is kinda violet-smelling, and as all smells are particulate, you'd basically be eating violets anyway, which is much like the parma violets apart from not made from ham. If you see what I mean?

Have to say I've never licked a granny so I bow to your superior knowledge - and at such a tender age too :-)

hobbio · December 2015

Neil said:

57Deluxe said:

These are an acquired taste and only for those of us who are true connoisseurs of sweet shoppe sweets or yore...

Yes indeed - I love 'em.

Me too. Wonderful things.

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