think these were called 'violet' something ?

Posted by: andyg on August 12, 2006

could this be palma violets

Posted by: andyg on August 12, 2006

Floral Gums? can still get those, had some last week from a shop in Scotland nr St Andrews

Posted by: Kate on August 26, 2006

Has anyone ever heard of sweets called japs my dad is convinced that they exist but i have never heard of them

Posted by: Grace on August 29, 2006

I remember floral tablets they where little oval shaped sweets that where pastel coloured in tins to freshen your breath , and Parma Violets where something completely different. You can still get Parma Violets and in giant size too, as for floral tablets not seen any for ages but a friend said you can buy then in health food shops, but i have not seen them

Posted by: gaynor on August 30, 2006

I remember those...very odd things. We used to buy them from the chemist! They also had tins of 'cherry lips' - tiny lip-shaped (obviously!) fruity jellies. Not really worth eating as they were so small!

Posted by: Heidi on September 21, 2006

I thought floral gums were like different coloured tiny flowers and tasted well, very chemically (but I liked them). They came in small plastic bags with flowers on them. I can see them in my mind - shame can't download it.

Posted by: BN on September 22, 2006

I remember Japs too and every so often I smell someone wearing a perfume that smells just like them, which prompts me to try to find them in so called sweet shops. I don't think I have seen them since about 1968. You could get large or small ones and were like little coloured laquered shiny boxes.

Posted by: Rosie Nichols on September 28, 2006

I remember Floral Gums and that taste! It was like someone had sprayed perfume over them.

Posted by: Tina on October 1, 2006

The Japs were called Jap Desserts which were my Dad's favourite sweets but were very hard to find in the seventies. You can get mini versions in Dolly Mixtures – they are the coloured cubes with sugar coating and a kind of soft coconut thing going on inside....

Posted by: Emma on October 2, 2006

hi,anyone remember whirly gigs? They were a chocolate bar made up of 4 round whirls of chocolate and also chocolate nut logs,they were to die for back in the 70s.

Posted by: paul on November 14, 2006

Japs or jap nuggets are still around; they are the cube shaped sweets that are now and have always been part of dolly mixtures as I remember, my dad loved them too, you used to be able to buy them in quarters yrs ago... probably a bit like you can now buy individual quality street populars!

Moving on to the 80s... does anyone remember BITZ bars, kinda like kit kats but my fav was the mint version in a green and white wrapper, chocolate with a hint of mint flavour, little fizzy like bits, kinda like the new cadburys mint crisp bars... but yummier cos they were more like kit kats, biscuit too!

Please tell me someone else who witnessed the 80s remembers them, I know I didn't dream it !!

Pam

Posted by: Pamela on November 16, 2006

Parma violets, theyre awesome!

You can buy mini ones or massive ones - they're great fun!!

Posted by: Sara on November 20, 2006

Re: the floral tablets - do you mean the small oval breath freshener ones called floral cachous (pronounced "cashews")?

Posted by: Jill on December 3, 2006

Floral tablets yeah, you can get these in Scotland. As you can many of the sweets on here!

Posted by: Emma on December 10, 2006

Where these possibly Floral Cashews as in 'breath fresheners', I remember they came in a small box with a flip top lid and they were all pastel colours.

Posted by: Michelle F on December 21, 2006

just found this site,and my mouth won't stop watering.
All talk of those fantastic sweets we used to enjoy, those were the good old days weren't they?.whirley gigs were my favourite chocolate and chocolate tools, also parma violets were to die for,you can still get them now but they are giant size.does anyone remember the spanish tobacco in a pouch.?

Posted by: gina downings on January 24, 2007

I have seen similar sold in chemists, floral tasting little sweets marketed as 'cashous' or 'devon cashous' very 'fragranced' flavour

Posted by: Lesley on January 31, 2007